Archive for November, 2006

Learning Screenwriting – Rocky: a screenplay in three days

Preconceptions about the creative process We live with a lot of mythologies and concepts about the “inspiration” and “craft” aspects of expression that influence how we approach doing something creative. One of those ideas is that anything so complex as a film script must necessarily take a long time to develop. But screenwriter James Lamberg [...]

Sexuality and Screenwriting – Erin Cressida Wilson on “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus”

[From article: Writer and subject coexist as Arbus, by Jay A. Fernandez, Los Angeles Times, Nov 8 2006; photo: Diane Arbus (1923-1971)] The birth of an artist Screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson says of her script for “Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus”: “What I wanted to do was to make a portrait of her [...]