Travel – ETB

#MondayMusings – Back From South Africa

#MondayMusings – Three Continents in Just a Few Weeks

#WritingAdviceWednesday – The Pitch South Africa #ETBSA

#WritingAdviceWednesday – View the finalists for The Pitch South Africa

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Off to South Africa!

#MondayMusings – Salani kakuhle! Filmmakers in South Africa

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Thanksgiving In Vienna

#MondayMusings – My holiday snaps

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Awesome Oslo

#MondayMusings – Awesome Oslo always delights

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Packing for Business Travel

#MondayMusings – Top Tips for business travel

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Packing for Bristol

#MondayMusings – Meet my Secret Weapon

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In Italy with RAI Television

#MondayMusings – What the main character wants is a clear and simple ego-driven goal.

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A Few Observations About Life in Europe & the UK

I’ve been living in Bristol for about three months now, interspersed with frequent trips to the Continent. Here are some general observations on a few key differences with the US.

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Join Me In Sweden in April and May

I will be in Stockholm from April 29 to May 5. I will be meeting one-on-one with writers, producers, and productions executives but there are three workshops open to the public.

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Friend and colleague from UCLA, Paul Chitlik, now a clinical assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University’s School of Film and Television, holds a residential writing seminar in Europe every summer. This year, the seminar is in Cairo Montenotte, Italy.

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Screenwriting in Italy

MICHELANGELO SCREENWRITING • SUMMER 2013 • ORVIETO, ITALY

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Nordkapp Film Festival

#MondayMusings – Time to become a travelogue for a while!

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Writing Lessons from Norway

Here are three key take-aways from a workshop in Norway about common issues that make a film project less effective and less emotionally compelling.

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Workshops & Consulting in Norway

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The Traveling Writer – Jetlag

Because I travel so much I thought I would share some of my tips on how to avoid jet lag.

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My Day at Pixar

I spent an amazing day at Pixar on Tuesday. I was doing a Character Map session with some of their writers, artists, directors and others. It’s easy to spot people coming to Pixar for the first time. They’re the ones, like me, walking around trying to soak in all the wonderful visuals in the building and snapping pictures like mad. Here are some of mine–

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Day Five at eQuinoxe

Working on a script with a group of advisors is never a linear process.

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Day Three at eQuinoxe

Your antagonist is your protagonist’s main adversary. This person is not necessarily evil or bad, but he or she is a significant obstacle to your main character’s goal.

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Day Two at eQuinoxe

When a script isn’t working well, isn’t as compelling a read as it should be or has some kind of emotional disconnect in the story the problem is usually the lack of a clear compelling and well-developed Want, Need or Price.

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Day One at eQuinoxe

#MondayMusings – The workshop advisors all arrived today.

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Arrival in Munich

#MondayMusings – Arrival bliss at Schloss Elmau for eQuinoxe Germany

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Jumping Off a Cliff

I am always talking about characters taking a Leap of Faith in a story. But I have been a bit hesitant about making my own. The cliff I am contemplating right is moving to Europe to live and work for a year, possibly longer.

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