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Women’s Romantic Fiction in Film

I am not a huge consumer of women’s romantic fiction because I like a good story – and so I can’t speak intimately to the ins and outs of the genre. It would appear superficially that this genre is formulaic in the extreme so that the story is something secondary (contrived) and the primary focus [...]

May 27th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Adapting, Audience, Character, Genre, Story, Subject Matter, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

To Adapt or Not To Adapt?

Is it a good choice to adapt a project as an unproduced writer – or should you concentrate more of your energies on writing your own original screenplays?

I actually discourage new writers (i.e., unestablished, without credits) from writing any screenplay to which they don’t own the rights.

The problem with then adapting something as an [...]

May 25th, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Adapting, Ideas, Process, Q&A, Story, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Off the Grid

I’ve been off the grid for a while. I don’t have Internet access where I’m staying now, so it’s been hard to write and post to the blog.

However, I’m still here – just very busy with reading and everything else going on right now.

Anyway, thank you all for being patient with me and [...]

May 4th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | 2 comments

The Confusion Between Main Character and Protagonist

Interesting information from Story Fanatic on the difference between the main character and protagonist.

Read this article here.

May 4th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | One comment