If you're in London and want to learn screenwriting on the cheap, there's a great deal going from Groupon. You get a full day of instruction, including an optional chance to pitch and get feedback on your own idea and a networking session, for a mere £29. Here's the link (which is only active for another day):
http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/london/raindance-film-school/16169543
It's usually taught by Elliot Grove of Raindance but this time the instructor is Jurgen Wolff...oh, that's me.
If you come, be sure to say hello during a break or at the networking session.
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It's kind of annoying when writers get wrong things like using "literally" when they mean "figuratively" ("I literally screamed my head off"), but one I rather enjoyed the other day was an article advising that you could do two things in "one foul swoop." We've all had a foul swoop or two.
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The other day this blog had 16,265 page views. Since this is considerably above the average, I was curious about the reason. Did some nugget of my wisdom about writing stimulate this frenzy?
Er, no. It turns out that reddit, which lists unusual facts, had linked to a post I did about how in the days of silent films one producer stimulated his writers by bringing in someone from the local insane asylum to throw in his or her ideas. I don't think that happens anymore, although some recent films seemed like they might have had that kind of input to their storylines...
There, we've caught up a little! Back to the usual format tomorrow.
best regards,
Jurgen