Category: Writing
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This past week I’ve been experimenting with a new story, one that is more of a game to write than something… I don’t know, serious. I’m a huge TTRPG fan and love to read up on theory of play. One of the most common and popular pieces of advice is that when you are prepping…
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You want to make simple things, but complications get in the way. You want a simple story, with simple writing, with simple elements. Simple? It seems that the act of making something “seem” simple is actually a very complicated process. That it actually takes years and years of work and understanding to reach the point…
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I’m moving along with a project that has been on-again, off-again for the past few years. It’s called Too Much and I really love it. The above photo is the back cover of the legal pad that contains a finished rough draft. It has various inspirations written on it that make up the essence of…
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I’ve been thinking about scheduling, and how as an independent filmmaker who can’t pay people very much, if at all, scheduling can be one of those mountains that can seem unclimbable. It’s pretty unreasonable to ask people to take two weeks off of work in order to make a movie that might not go anywhere.…
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I have a tendency when I’m playing a game to save my resources and never use them. To keep them in my inventory, tucked away, until I really “need” them. If you only have twenty-fire arrows in the whole game, you should only use them when you really need them, right? On the final boss,…
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In my last post I quoted David Lynch speaking on his process and how he compares ideas to puzzle pieces that he receives individually from some other room. He says he slowly collects these pieces one by one until he has them all, then he begins putting them together. This is a pretty simple analogy…
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The creator of the Mothership RPG, Sean McCoy, posted this blog entry last October. It references another blog by Ted Gioia, also called My Favorite Problems, which talks about the scientist Richard Feynman and how he had a dozen or so questions that guided his life’s work. Gioia created a list of his own questions,…
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In trying to figure out a way to practice filmmaking in an experimental, fearless, and quantity centric fashion—as in: making many films quickly in order to learn rather than to perfect—I’m building an actionable plan to make a large microfilm portfolio. The thing that often stalls people with short films is that their ideas are…