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Producer’s POV Column: Writers’ #1 Fear: I’m Not Good Enough
Sunday, May 12th, 2013
Producer Anne Marie Gillen recently posed this question to our Mastermind Group: ”What keeps you awake at night? What are those nasty thoughts that keep playing around in your head? The shoulda-coulda-woulda?” It stimulated such an open and honest discussion about our communal fears and insecurities that we entrepreneurial artists all share but rarely give voice to, I thought [...]
Tags: A Confederacy of Dunces, Anne Marie Gillen, communal fears, entrepreneurial artists, Heather Hale, insecurities, Johanna Gezina van Gogh-Bonger, John Kennedy Toole, Mastermind Group, Mr. Holland's Opus, Producer's POV, Producer’s Point of View, Red Vineyard at Arles, Script Magazine, shoulda-coulda-woulda, The Vigne Rouge, The Writer's Store, Theo, Van Gogh, What keeps you awake at night?
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Getting Things Right
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
I’ve just finished reading Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I am struck by how useful a simple checklist can be to professionals as divergent as surgeons in the emergency room to commercial airline pilots in eliminating potentially fatal mistakes in incredibly stressful situations. While not usually life threatening, our decisions [...]
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GATE 2 – What an Amazing Event! ;-)
Sunday, February 5th, 2012
GATE (the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment) is a nonprofit 501c(6) membership trade association that strives to inspire and empower professionals in the media, entertainment and arts to consciously create and distribute transformational content. Founded by visionary Chairman and CEO, John Raatz, last night’s “coming out” event brought “the tribe” together to activate and catalyze [...]
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Sample Client Projects
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011
I Ghostwrote Million Dollar Cup of Tea, the mother-daughter kitchen table start-up that turned into the $75 million dollar business of Oregon Chai, for C0-Founder (Mom) Tedde McMillen who was so thrilled with what we came up with together that she very kindly gave me a “with” cover credit as a nice surprise when it [...]
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The Great Linda Seger Has Done It Again!
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
In this, her ninth book on screenwriting, the industry’s matriarch who essentially created the job of script consultant three decades ago, Dr. Seger has gone on to clarify one of the most elusive elements of screenwriting in her latest book: WRITING SUBTEXT: what lies beneath. “Subtext is the true meaning simmering underneath the words and actions,” she [...]
Tags: Book Reviews, Linda Seger, on the nose, rewriting, Screenwriting, subtext, what lies beneath, Writing Subtext
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