Travel Day made the top 50 movie blogs in 2010's MovieMaker magazine survey. It now has readers in the US, Canada, Great Britain, Ukraine, Russia, France, India, Moldova and Romania. Thanks to all of you for hanging with us.
This blog started in 2009 as a real-time journal of the making of an independent feature film entitled Travel Day, but the project fell through but was optioned last year. So I kept on writing and now up to 2017.
A lot has changed in all those years and I continue to keep it fresh and also with something that is more than gossip.
One of the best blogs was when I worked on a TV series blog entitled "Living in Heaven, Working in Hell" about a TV series that was a disaster. I brought it up to date in 2017.
I'm going to get more into the work of writing in these days and how they change and how they don't.
And mostly have some of you find little things that may be of interest to you. And me.
I will regularly post new blogs on Mondays and sometimes Fridays.
"Reading your blog on indie films makes me want to make one"
"Nice balance between business and artistic sense"
"Don't usually read blogs, I took the time, interesting, you're willing to go out on a limb"
"I'm on the verge of tears after reading that, Jim"
"You brought us into the passenger van, we're there"
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Monday, January 15, 2018
Can you reach the impossible?
Is the impossible possible?
Maybe.
Way back in this blog I had a few stories about how to get your screenplay to get read by someone rather than your mom or dad. Or maybe even a friend who knows a friend who knows a friend. And if you live around LA you will have lots of friends. You can hang out at Crave's on Ventura Blvd and Van Nuys Blvd where I hung around and talk with the pretty waitresses. They know a lot. Believe me. I'm not the "laptop" on the table or joined with your buddy who also is working on their screenplay"type. Rather I prefer to watch them. In fact good writers watch rather than play with their screenplay.
But that's just how some of us do that. I'd rather watch everyone, there's a lot more than trying to write a screenplay just to show that you're in the game. And I watch a lot because I can get a lot of life-styles of the writers. Maybe I can learn too.
But here's where I move around a bit. After all, this is about how to get someone to read your screenplay. Those of you who have read material way back can probably see some of the work on screenplays I've done and will repeat a little here.
This isn't a rehash of the "old days", although I begin with that. Most of you also probably know I have a screenplay book that I wrote a few years ago. Yes, I threw my "how I write my screenplay book" also. I won't bother trying to sell you on it. But don't bother one guy tramps my book terribly. But here I just say one Trump says; sh--thole.
It's here I begin in terms of finding a home for your screenplay. I wish I could say for sure -- but it can help.
Well, at least UCLA sells my book. I wonder if that guy has a book in UCLA as well of course on Amazon. Three books to be sure. Yeah, I know, let sleeping dogs lie. And this is not only for the writers and wanna-be writers living in LA, it's for anyone who lives anywhere. As you regulars know, I get people here from America, Canada and a collection from Europe and Asia.
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