For the past several years, I’ve been on the steering committee for DFWCon, the DFW Writers Conference, put on by the members of the DFW Writers Workshop. Before the pandemic, we’d get 350-400 attendees and had some great keynote speakers. Each year, it takes us several months of weekly meetings to gather agents to take …
Ten years ago, I wrote a movie script. I was freelancing for an ad agency and we had a pro bono client that was an orphanage. That’s understating it. Boys Ranch is an entire community in the Texas panhandle that solely exists to raise 400 at-risk kids that the world has tossed aside. It’s been …
One of my favorite websites for screenwriting is also one I dislike the most. Spooky, huh? It’s Done Deal Pro and to visit the forums there is to understand the Dr. Jekyll nature of the interwebs. I’ve encountered some extremely helpful people there. Pro writer Jeff Lowell offered insight and a script to read for …
I recently attended the Austin Film Festival’s Screenwriter’s Conference which is also a mouthful to fit on a badge. Part of the fun of the AFF is the Pitch Competition. You get 90 seconds to pitch your 2-hour movie idea to Hollywood pros. Because it’s a competition, it’s set up as an initial round where …
Man, I’m beat. Austin was good and bad. The Good – it’s always a great time, talking writing movies for 4 straight days, met some folks I only know from twitter, learned a lot, and went to a couple of terrific parties. The Bad – some of the panels weren’t fabulous. And on Saturday afternoon …