the sixty second (give or take) project

Imagination is inclusive, I'll be creating scripts based off of your title submissions. Seriously, send them!

[fastcompany]

You need people around you that you can trust to say “that’s a shit idea". Every McCartney needs a Lennon.

— World-famous advertising creative Sir John Hegarty on how to be and stay creative. (via fastcompany)

[losangelespast-blog]

Two fashionably dressed women look out over Hollywoodland and its iconic sign from the vantage point of a raised steam shovel bucket, 1924. 

[writerswritecompany]

Have you ever felt as if you just can’t write?

Have a look at this infographic filled with helpful tips to get you back on track.

Source for Image

[kaplansplaylist]

[sixtyor2]

He was a self-proclaimed "renaissance man". He fancied himself a purveyor of many arts. That's young man speak for 'I have no fucking clue what I'm doing.'

- my love life

[theroamer]

Wendover Will at the Nevada-Utah Border, c. 1983.

[sixtyor2]

A little helpful inspiration for my next feature-length.

[sixtyor2]

Long time, no write

Writing again at long last, after a lengthy break and some much needed incubation and reaffirmation (and with a new laptop) I've returned to a new feature length concept.

This one won't go as quickly as my last did, but I have a wonderful network of smart creative types and writers to keep me on task and to keep me real. 

I had reached that point where I really just wanted to keep writing to be able to keep saying I was a writer, but I've learned that living a full life is just as important to the creative process as staying steeped in creation. I've made some new friends, survived the holidays, and picked up a whole fresh batch of issues to stimulate my creative process. 

Let the games begin, y'all.

[writerswritecompany]

Stay in touch with the first impulses that made you start writing—the pleasure of it and the interest of the story, and not so much the professional side of things. Remain close to that—when you began writing and were intoxicated with it. If you do, the rest will come.

Jeffrey Eugenides (via amandaonwriting)

[writerswritecompany]

[madmendaily]

“In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.”

Directed by Logan and Noah Miller and co-starring Ed Harris, Jason Isaacs, Eduardo Noriega, Steven Rude and Amy Madigan, ‘Sweetwater’ will be screened in the premieres category at Sundance, and will arrive in theaters sometime next year.

[sixtyor2]

What a LOGLINE.

[thebeginningwriter]

(via Writing)

[writerswritecompany]

100 Beautiful and Ugly Words

by Mark Nichol

One of the many fascinating features of our language is how often words with pleasant associations are also quite pleasing on the tongue and even to the eye, and how many words, by contrast, acoustically and visually corroborate their disagreeable nature — look no further than the heading for this post. Enrich the poetry of your prose by applying words that provide precise connotation while also evoking emotional responses

Beautiful Words

Amorphous: indefinite, shapeless

Beguile: deceive

Caprice: impulse

Cascade: steep waterfall

Cashmere: fine, delicate wool

Chrysalis: protective covering

Cinnamon: an aromatic spice; its soft brown color

Coalesce: unite, or fuse

Crepuscular: dim, or twilit

Crystalline: clear, or sparkling

Desultory: half-hearted, meandering

Diaphanous: gauzy

Dulcet: sweet

Ebullient: enthusiastic

Effervescent: bubbly

Elision: omission

Enchanted: charmed

Encompass: surround

Enrapture: delighted

Ephemeral: fleeting

Epiphany: revelation

Epitome: embodiment of the ideal

Ethereal: celestial, unworldly, immaterial

Etiquette: proper conduct

Evanescent: fleeting

Evocative: suggestive

Exuberant: abundant, unrestrained, outsize

Felicity: happiness, pleasantness

Filament: thread, strand

Halcyon: care-free

Idyllic: contentedly pleasing

Incorporeal: without form

Incandescent: glowing, radiant, brilliant, zealous

Ineffable: indescribable, unspeakable

Inexorable: relentless

Insouciance: nonchalance

Iridescent: luster

Languid: slow, listless

Lassitude: fatigue

Lilt: cheerful or buoyant song or movement

Lithe: flexible, graceful

Lullaby: soothing song

Luminescence: dim chemical or organic light

Mellifluous: smooth, sweet

Mist: cloudy moisture, or similar literal or virtual obstacle

Murmur: soothing sound

Myriad: great number

Nebulous: indistinct

Opulent: ostentatious

Penumbra: shade, shroud, fringe

Plethora: abundance

Quiescent: peaceful

Quintessential: most purely representative or typical

Radiant: glowing

Redolent: aromatic, evocative

Resonant: echoing, evocative

Resplendent: shining

Rhapsodic: intensely emotional

Sapphire: rich, deep bluish purple

Scintilla: trace

Serendipitous: chance

Serene: peaceful

Somnolent: drowsy, sleep inducing

Sonorous: loud, impressive, imposing

Spherical: ball-like, globular

Sublime: exalted, transcendent

Succulent: juicy, tasty, rich

Suffuse: flushed, full

Susurration: whispering

Symphony: harmonious assemblage

Talisman: charm, magical device

Tessellated: checkered in pattern

Tranquility: peacefulness

Vestige: trace

Zenith: highest point

Ugly Words

Cacophony: confused noise

Cataclysm: flood, catastrophe, upheaval

Chafe: irritate, abrade

Coarse: common, crude, rough, harsh

Cynical: distrustful, self-interested

Decrepit: worn-out, run-down

Disgust: aversion, distaste

Grimace: expression of disgust or pain

Grotesque: distorted, bizarre

Harangue: rant

Hirsute: hairy

Hoarse: harsh, grating

Leech: parasite,

Maladroit: clumsy

Mediocre: ordinary, of low quality

Obstreperous: noisy, unruly

Rancid: offensive, smelly

Repugnant: distasteful

Repulsive: disgusting

Shriek: sharp, screeching sound

Shrill: high-pitched sound

Shun: avoid, ostracize

Slaughter: butcher, carnage

Unctuous: smug, ingratiating

Visceral: crude, anatomically graphic

Notice how often attractive words present themselves to define other beautiful ones, and note also how many of them are interrelated, and what kind of sensations, impressions, and emotions they have in common. Also, try enunciating beautiful words as if they were ugly, or vice versa. Are their sounds suggestive of their quality, or does their meaning wholly determine their effect on us?

From Writers Write

[mijnarchief]

by Keri Smith

[vintageski]

Ernest Hemingway looking trim, most likely at Sun Valley, Idaho.

[crookednosekid]

This photo, because it’s cold out (LA cold, I mean) and because I’m going to a screenwriting workshop tonight with the lit manager I met last month.

I took a brief writing break to settle into my new apartment and job, both of which are lovely, though the break was AWFUL. It feels nice to be working toward a personal, obtainable goal again. The group that attends this workshop has sold scripts, pilots, and will surely be a great resource for continuing education (cause I’ve only been a screenwriter for just shy of a year, y’all). 

Yay learning, yay Hemingway in this picture, yay more writing/soul food (meaning, food for the soul)

[heyoscarwilde]

So do it.

Kurt Vonnegut quote illustrated by Pamela Bates :: via etsy.com

[sixtyor2]

Must remember. Should become my daily affirmation.

[audreyhepburn-a-style-icon]

[sixtyor2]

Writing again for the first time in over a month.

Like, REAL writing. Where you get things done and you kind of don't hate it and you certainly don't delete all of it.

What can I say, the soul was starving.

Updates to follow.

[storytellingquotes-blog]

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

Mary McCarthy (via amandaonwriting)