1. The Lord of the Rings. Those books go on forever. I’m shocked they were able to boil it down to just 3 movies. 2. This will be unpopular, but Game of Thrones. Everybody loves it so much and I just could not get more than about 40 pages in to the first book. I’ve […]
Continue readingSource: Unsplash I studied screenwriting in college. As part of that education, I read spec scripts for a film studio and an agent. I also took tons of courses on story structure, formatting, and dialogue. Let’s talk more about that last one. Unless we’re looking at a movie like Eraserhead, most films are predominantly composed of […]
Continue readingSo, you’d like to take blogging for a test drive, eh? See if you like it or not before ponying up the bucks for a complete self-hosted WordPress setup? You’ve probably heard you can start a blog for free, and indeed you can. The big question is: What’s the best free blogging platform right now? […]
Continue readingPicture Source: Pixabay“If I make you to write like me, I would have killed your individuality.” –Emeka Nobis. One of the decisions I have made in 2019 is to live alone. Well, alone here could mean many things. I mean, I started living away from family since 2001 when I got into a boarding secondary school owned […]
Continue readingHere’s the thing: There are many tutorials that can teach you how to write a blog post. They can educate you on the mechanics of blogging, what to do, and what not to do. Read them and you can learn how to craft a perfectly serviceable blog post. Heck, you might even write something that […]
Continue readingIf you’re involved in show business, particularly in the beautiful and intricate art of producing, writing, directing, and overall bringing a TV show or movie to life, your work is already hard in itself. If you’re getting your source material from a series of beloved books with a die-hard fanbase, it can be even more […]
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This post has been originally published on June 20, 2016 and has been extensively revised and updated on January 14, 2019. How does your dream job look like? Take a second to mingle about that. No matter what you have just envisioned, you have the power to get one step closer to that career of […]
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Composer Matt Morton shared with TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) what it was like writing the score for the highly anticipated documentary Apollo 11, particularly since director Todd Douglas Miller used only archival footage to tell the story. In that same vein, Morton decided to only use instruments available at the time of the 1969 […]
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Organised cheating threatens the integrity of Australia’s higher education system, education minister Dan Tehan said. View Entire Post › Read more: buzzfeed.com
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Thoreau would envy this small cabin. It’s in Oregon’s Willamette Valley, near the winding Marys River, not far from the town of Corvalis and Oregon State University. Kathleen Dean Moore, a philosophy professor at OSU commissioned this tiny house as a writing studio. She tapped her daughter, an architect who also teaches at OSU and […]
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