“Works-in-Progress”

“Works-in-Progress”

I like to think we’re all this, in a good way.  I’ve long believed that a sense of forward momentum is one of the essentials to human happiness, everyone wants to feel like they’re progressing in life in one way or another. It’s like that old advertising tag line,...
The Path of Most Resistance

The Path of Most Resistance

THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFLICT In the world at large the idea of peace on Earth is a noble, if seemingly unattainable, goal. But in the world of drama, it’s death– because the essence of “drama”, (and by that I mean both drama and comedy), is conflict. If there are...

And speaking of the Black List…

Congratulations to my clients Nick Pollack and Ryan Hayward for their recent great review from the Black List for their script, “Any Girl Who Loves the Beatles is Bound to Break Your Heart”, and for making the list’s weekly “Scripts of...

The Black List Opens to Unrepresented Writers

This is an interesting development.  Franklin Leonard, (a fellow Sydney Pollack alum),  has opened his famous Black List to unrepresented writers– for a fee.  Yep, there’s money involved, a monthly $25 fee to have your script hosted on their website. But...