MY SCREENPLAY: Writing the Beast, Part 4 Characters. It’s a story about a guy who… You need people to tell a story. And you need to be comfortable with your characters. This is tough for me. I like people. I like nice people. It’s hard for me to write about bad people because it gets … Read More →
MY SCREENPLAY: Writing the Beast, Part 3 Tell me your movie in one sentence. In the movie business it’s called a “logline” or think of it as the TV Guide description. When you are looking for a movie to watch you want to know: What’s it about? It might be described as a war movie, or … Read More →
MY SCREENPLAY: Writing the Beast, Part 2 Shopping for the main ingredients You love it when all the juicy flavors and textures of the final product blend together but you don’t want to know how it got made. No matter which screenwriter guru’s “recipe” you follow, it’s not a pretty process my friends. One can … Read More →
MY SCREENPLAY: Writing the Beast, Part 2 Title: WALKING FOR LITTLE FISH The seed for this feature length movie script began about fifteen years ago. I was at a local annual event, a place I’d attended many times. Back then I had a writer’s epiphany of sorts. And as any writer knows, if there’s a … Read More →
“I’ve missed you.” This is what I’ve heard the past few weeks and I feel the same way. I’ve missed you too. The Dog and A Beer blog took a long walk on the beach! Literally. First of all, thanks for thinking about this amusement blog of mine. Secondly, there’s a format change that I … Read More →
So why Dog and A Beer? Well, personally I like both. One dog, many brands and types of beers. But the blog name came from a line in the hugely popular baseball movie, Field of Dreams. The one-time activist Terrance Mann (James Earl Jones) has been “kidnapped” by dreamer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to … Read More →
