The Other Side of Paradise
Earlier in the year, I unwittingly became involved in a short film project. The project was intended as an action showreel for my friend Tony Nicholas, an actor and fight choreographer. He showed me initial footage, which was great. But, searching for a story (as I always do), I started asking a lot of why questions. If you were being shot at, why did you tend to your friend instead of shoot back? Why does the bad guy shoot you, then decide to fight you? If he wanted to fight you hand-to-hand, why didn’t he just call you out immediately? Etc. To be fair, at this stage there was no…
The Three Faces of Writing
You wouldn’t think that standing around giving actors instructions (when it’s needed), watching actors act, and watching the footage on the camera, would be so exhausting. But it is. It’s something about the creative process, about trying to produce something from your imagination – and whatever wells that invariably draws on. When I was younger and would have big writing sessions – and I’m talking writing eight or nine hours – I would always end the day feeling two things: uneasy, as if I’d spent so much of the day in my imagination, it was difficult transitioning back into the real world exhausted, like I’d just spent a couple of…
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