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So... You'll never guess what happened!I went to Romania for those two weeks, necessary in order to get some paperwork done (don't ask!) and I ended up staying for a month -- and loving every second of it!Bohemian life? Alive and kicking! Woo-hoo! I stayed up all night, almost every night.  My resistance to alcohol has increased dramatically as a result, but why do I talk about myself again,

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WOW! Romania has scored big time in Cannes! I still can't get used to the idea. This is way cool and will have consequences for many of my friends over there, as things are sure to kick into high gear in the industry! I hear bohemian life over in Bucharest has become extremely intense. The economy is booming, the arts follow, or vice versa? Anyway, I will soon closely inspect the phenomenon

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I've been writing a great deal lately, in many formats, in several languages.And... I kinda of loved the results!That has never happened before. A funny and less expected side effect of that was to realize that the marketing of my scripts is truly secondary to me. First and foremost, I wanted my screenplays to please... my own ridiculously pretentious self. And these days I have been

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TJ tagged me with this one.It's not that difficult, because well, you know almost nothing about me. I'll try to keep this short and irrelevant, just to resist the natural temptation of building a character here.So...The Top... or should I say, The Bottom Five Things You Didn't Know About Me are:1. I could spend days listening to old people's stories.2. Nowadays, I mutter "Vive la France!" after

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Just a quick update here.I'm stuck in Rewriteland for now, on somebody else's thriller.It looks like vacation is coming sooner this year, with Tokyo and Shanghai, possibly a little Romania thrown in for good measure. Then it's LA for July and August. Yay! Will my script be ready until then? That is the question.I doub... Undoubtedly, I meant! Damn! I'll do it even if I have to work on the

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So, I started that treatment. It simply took off. Strange things happened. After having carefully chosen the name of my protagonist, the moment I started to fill in the first Final Draft index card, another name landed on the screen, a name I had never even considered, but which felt perfectly right!Under that spell, everything started to unravel. Moments, events, even dialogue were popping

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Intrigued, I went ahead and did a more extensive MBTI assessment at Humanmetrics.It turns out I'm even more of a rarity: I'm not an INTP (Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Perceiving) but an INFJ (Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging), aka "The Counselor Idealist" aka "The Protector". (Could I also be known as "The Godfather", please? I'd like that very much... "Corleone With Wings"... :

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...and I thought I might post this...Probably 90% of the people score thusly, but anyway, my narcissism was so indulged that I could not resist sharing...:Your Personality is Very Rare (INTP)Your personality type is goofy, imaginative, relaxed, and brilliant.Only about 4% of all people have your personality, including 2% of all women and 6% of all menYou are Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and

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Q: So, how are you doing? WW: I'm moving along.Q: Not too excited, are you? It's not going as fast as you'd like it to. WW: No. Q: Why not? WW: Because I keep stumbling upon juicy research. Q: Uh-oh. I thought your new found mantra for this project was "Fuck research?" WW: Yeah, but... It turns out that some of the things I wanted my character to feel and do were already

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Everything I do must follow the rules of a good story. Everything about me, every project, every relationship, everything!Why is that? I don't know. Maybe because I started reading (spontaneously, I suspect that I got it all from packaging and TV subtitles) when I was four and then entered a rhythm of three (children's) books a day, until I was, I don't know, twelve? Then I discovered big novels

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OK, this blog was fun for a while. But I'll quit posting silly rants and pieces on it, because Dostoevsky HERself is emailing me, so my brain is on fire now. I am totally getting serious and starting to outline and summarize and pitch and see if we can write this together. We'll be in a separate, neighboring blog. I might keep you posted on our progress. Don't try this at home unless you really

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...these flower images, courtesy of a freakishly early spring in our area. Taken in our garden, by yours truly (I know, I won't try photography as a day job), today, March 8, 2007, wishing all women the best! (Yes, why not take today seriously? I prefer it to Valentine's Day and other commercial contraptions. This is about half the humanity, just like that, out of nowhere, because... "they're

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You Should Be a Film WriterYou don't just create compelling stories, you see them as clearly as a movie in your mind.You have a knack for details and dialogue. You can really make a character come to life.Chances are, you enjoy creating all types of stories. The joy is in the storytelling.And nothing would please you more than millions of people seeing your story on the big screen!What Type of

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In case you were wondering what's with my new blog subtitle: from now on, I'll be "WW". "Dubya Dubya". "With Wings". :) I like the look, the symmetry, and I'm a Gemini, so this should work.They are able wings, too! They immediately shot me into Mach 3 when I read HER reply today.I am beyond happy, I'm ecstatic! She agreed to talk about my project, people! And she was amazingly nice to me.And I

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You Are a Beagle Puppy With Wings (not shown in this picture)Cheerful, energetic, and happy go lucky.And your sense of smell is absolutely amazing! You can immediately sense a great movie, or a flaw in a story... You sniff others' bullshit right away and are quick to bark at it. However, this doesn't make you less endearing to really intelligent folks, so go ahead and do your thing, tear into

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Wow! I really reached out this time.This is for the record, I'm not sure my action will amount to any results, but if it does, then it's the experience of a lifetime!I'm friggin' glad I did it. I had it in me. Moreover, I SENSED that it was the right thing to do. That and nothing else. I'm courting some superior achievement if all this comes to fruition. This is so exciting.You know, how

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I needed to hear or read this somewhere. It hypnotized me. It's from David Anaxagoras' blog, section called "The Secrets of UCLA MFA Screenwriters: Writing Under Pressure"I hope he won't mind my quoting it here. I however encourage you to read his entire post, it's really good, synthetic and motivating. But I need to have this particular piece of advice glowing at me during these days. Here goes:

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...But Ricciotto wasn't in a mood for flying much tonight. He had already flown to the airport in the morning and had enjoyed the early spring scenery in the French countryside. So he quickly landed in front of a bar called "Gay Lureed". A friend had told him that they had a new bartender, Gavin, and the guy was ready to wow his clients and give the place a fresh name in town. Re-brand it, as it

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Surprise, surprise! I enjoyed writing the FAQ which I placed, for now, at the bottom of this blog. I had never written an FAQ before and it's, in fact, quite a bit like writing dialogue. Doh!Actually, umm, well, let's say it CAN be.However, I decided instantly to invent a new genre here, since I'm playing Ricciotto Canudo and I already predicted that blogging will soon become the Eighth Art. Any

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Well, at least I'm not alone. Everyone else procrastinates and gets involved in cool side projects.This article, "50 Strategies For Making Yourself Work" by Jerry Oltion, is so copyrighted it scares me. So I let you access it there and I'll just comment on those strategies below.I'll start with the first five.No, I have never set a quota of pages to be written per day. Sometimes my hands fly

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I can't stop laughing.See, there are many other bloggin' screenwriters out there, trying to help each other out. I was trying to compile a list of my favorite people and post it here. Only I got startrekked... erm, sidetracked.Too bad we just missed the deadline for "the First Ever John August Scene Challenge", but you can witness the results here.And yes: Shane is right!I say, let's keep an eye

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It made me think of myself, obviously. I immediately spotted my poor self, "me and my writing hand", having climbed all the way up there, through hundreds of books, on top of history's rubble and rubbish, trying to capture its core vibration and translate it, indeed distill it into the clearest essence of a cinematic STORY, for the benefit of THE OTHERS, standing behind me. You know, those

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A blitz exercise. Exorcise. Before I tell you anything about this picture and why it captured my imagination, what does it suggest to you?In a thousand words or less, of course... :)

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OK. I have one main character. I know her well.I have the setting. I know what I want to capture in the background. I have the three secondary characters lined up. I have written many pages on all those "people", however, I have still to get it "together". I have a cool chronology as an Excel spreadsheet, with tons of info for each year, with each character's own column in a canvas of many

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I totally don't read horoscopes! I swear! Listen, I have a life. I don't know how I came upon this one, but well, I just read it. And then again. And again. It wouldn't go away, dammit!It said (pardon my French):"Certains événements vous poussent à replonger dans un passé que vous n'avez pas totalement assumé. Heureusement, votre positivisme vous aide à considérer avec philosophie vos

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Sorry...

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"WINDOWS"So... try to write a treatment for a short film starting from this news item in the Albuquerque Journal (March 22, 1937).This is an old game we used to play on a forum...

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:)

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