I like to write my problems and tell them to other people

Daily quote:

"IT'S JUST A COUCH!"

-Lester Bernham
American Beauty

Great Action Lines : GAL

I'm starting a new recurring post. It's going to be clever ways of wording things in screenplay action lines. This one comes from Joe Carnahan's 'The Grey', apparently being developed.


Flannery’s eyes seize Ottway’s, he reaches for him.

Love it.

Plot Character Theme

I know what good writing is. I can see it directly. I can see metaphors around me in life. I read life like a screenplay now.
It's like in the matrix, where Neo can see the numbers floating down, the code that makes up life. I look around me, I talk to people close to me, strangers and I see it. The language of story everywhere, within everything.

The three things that make up the screenplay: plot, character and theme. They relate to each other. They relate to life. The plot is the things that happen in your life, the events, the locations, the props. The characters are everyone around you, everyone you know, everyone you don't. The theme is...

The theme is you. What you are. What you deal with. What your destiny is. What the destiny of this world is. Emotions.

I will never right something not character-driven. I want to explore the depths of the soul. I want to explore my problems and show them to the world without them noticing.

And I know I can do it. I have faith in that.

Freed Men is just the beginning.

Polish is done. Submitted to a my connections and the guys. Just waiting now.
In other news, my friend Mandi who I guess now works for a production company told me she was looking for a rom com pitch. I told her about my new story idea about a smooth college guy who gets all the girls who one day finds he can't get it up anymore and must go an adventure to discover what's 'wrong' with him. We'll see how that goes and if her boss likes the pitch.