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Serialized Screenplay, Uncategorized
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P.O.V. HOME VIDEO CAM AT RECEPTION — MOMENTS LATER
A wedding guest’s video cam gets keepsake video statements of
guests and approaches the family table.
MALE AT TABLE
Dick, buddy, she’s the prettiest
girl you ever talked to, you are
one lucky boy. It has to be your
money.
More on page 83
PlotDog @ May 15, 2008
The Writer's Life
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(How I get killer visualizations and shorter more cohesive story lines)
As you might have guessed (if you have read any of my other posts) I just ain’t normal. Ask my Mom, Ex-wife, Professors, and most anyone who knows me, I definitely do things differently. On the upside to that, I won’t judge you for your writing process and I hope you don’t slap me around too much. So why this exhaustive explanation for my process, which might only fit me? So, you can feel free to have your own process and be ok with it. If some of my strategies help you write a better book, all the better. Use what ever you need or want and ignore the rest. More on page 82
PlotDog @ May 12, 2008
Serialized Novel
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It was, to any eye, an odd threesome; the two patients and their therapist. Bill Susman sat and glowered at his pathetic luck in life. He realized that he was a touch too slick and not quite handsome enough. He was just a middle-aged insurance salesman in the waning days of his ability to stand people well enough to suck-up and get them to sign on the dotted line. More on page 81
PlotDog @ May 10, 2008
Book Review, Reviews
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Review of The Screenwriter’s Bible by David Trottier - 5 @@@@@ at-a-boys
As first seen on BlogCritics Magazine.
Writer Boy was having a less than thrilling realization. As an emerging writer and not a fella who felt he had yet conquered his chosen craft of being a wordsmith, he had been wrestling with the evil passive word demons. Writer Boy hated passive tense because he mostly wrote thrillers, and there just aren’t many passive thrillers. He found it more than a tiny bit ironic that something passive could be so difficult to battle. It occurred to him that this very word battle he had fought in his mind, over and over, might be the genesis of the term “Passive Aggressive”. More on page 80
PlotDog @ May 8, 2008
Serialized Screenplay, Uncategorized
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INT. CHURCH — MORNING
Sunlight floods through the windows onto the perfect wedding.
Dick pulls Jane to him, she kisses him carefully. They walk
back down the aisle. Dick smiles like a lottery winner and
Jane makes eye contact with guests. More on page 77
PlotDog @ May 6, 2008
Blogging
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It’s dark out now, the sun is down, the house is quiet and I scope the hallway. I need to make sure everyone is settled. I close the drapes, turn on a favorite video, fire up the internet and shamefaced click into areas of the internet I never knew existed. More on page 74
PlotDog @ May 3, 2008
Bloggers Write 2
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The Battles We Face and Compromises We Make.
I have been writing for a very long time; sometimes with more intensity than others, sometimes less. I have written non-fiction, Fiction, Screenplays, Short Stories, Legal Articles and more. Some have been printed, some sold, most ignored and some I remain hopeful on. More on page 76
PlotDog @ May 1, 2008
Serialized Novel
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Eddie stepped into only the second Barnes and Nobel bookstore of his life. Before Candy’s death, the closest he came to bookstores had been the small, mall based booksellers. Even then, he only went in to get calendars for Christmas, or pick up soft-core porn magazines when he couldn’t sneak out to the adult bookstore. Going with what he knew Eddie had tried the mall stores, but he didn’t find much more than sci-fi and romance. He didn’t need either; he needed real books, because he was on a mission for the first time in years.
More on page 75
PlotDog @ April 27, 2008
