by Trevor Mayes | May 8, 2010 | Characters, Pre-writing, Quick Screenwriting Tips
Don’t get hung up on writing character backstories. What’s important is knowing how your character will react to situations right now. We all react differently to trauma and events. For example, someone who grows up in an abusive household may become an...
by Trevor Mayes | May 6, 2010 | Creativity
In these inspiring and insightful short videos, creativity expert Eric Maisel shares some practical advice for maximizing our creative output. Video 1: Honoring the Creative Process / Challenges and Solutions / Persistence and Courage “… what really honors...
by Trevor Mayes | May 4, 2010 | Trailers
It’s so crazy, it just might work… as a movie! I had this fever dream the other night… A telepathic car tire was killing anything that stood in its way because of its attraction to a beautiful woman. Oh no wait — that wasn’t a dream,...
by Trevor Mayes | May 3, 2010 | Motivation, Off Topic
Here’s a little inspiration for all those writers out there who have had creative work rejected. Neatorama has put together a list of famous books that were first rejected by publishers. Here’s an excerpt: Gone With the Wind – one of the most enduring...
by Trevor Mayes | May 2, 2010 | Movie Reviews
This isn’t really a review of The Lovely Bones, so much as it is a “What if?” game. That is, what if the movie Ghost had made some bad script choices? Unlike all of my other reviews, this one is teeming with SPOILERS, so if you haven’t seen The...
