Desert Screenwriters Group
Mt. Eisenhower – Indian Wells, CA Thought you might be interested in our Member Screenplay page from the Desert Screenwriters Group website. It continues to grow. Take a look. I’ve divided the page...
View ArticleThe Hunger Games
Casanova’s Restaurant – Carmel, CA Or Katniss Everdeen’s Home in The Hunger Games (?) For years, as a writer, I’ve shied away from the young adult category populated by the likes of Suzanne...
View ArticleFrom Ray to Herman …
The Witch House in Beverly Hills Many of the top selling bestsellers today are by women. Whether in the young adult fantasy areas like J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter brand, or Stephenie Meyer’s vampire...
View ArticleThe Media of Screenplays
(Email to my friend Eric McLuhan on February 20, 2015.) Eric, It’s a time of gathering ideas for me now. Not any work on my projects except for posts up to my websites. Had a thought today how much...
View ArticleThe Chronology of Words …
The River, Rancho Mirage Have an idea for something new. Wonder if you’ve ever heard of this. Or your thoughts on it. A method for indexing in a chronological order everything one writes on his or her...
View ArticleTwo Kinds of Christmas
In November of 1959, as a shocked American public were hit with the news that a number of their favorite quiz shows had in fact been rigged for some time, author John Steinbeck wrote the following...
View ArticleThe Lost Mission
A new novella by John Fraim PREMISE: Two children of Mormon billionaires become “radicalized” during their mission to a foreign country and return to San Francisco to blow up the Golden Gate Bridge....
View ArticleScriptFest 2015
Pitch Alley At ScriptFest – Pitching to Film Executives Just got back from the 2015 ScriptFest in Burbank. An amazing event combining seminars with leading screenwriters and screenwriting teachers,...
View ArticleScreenplay Personality Types
In the PDF below, is a new article by me after reading a brilliant short little book on screenwriting called The Inner Game of Screenwriting by Sandy Frank. (Michael Wiese Productions). The book...
View ArticleThe Devil Vine
A famous old actor in LA is hired by the president of a small south American country to help him promote the harvest of a mysterious magical vine that only grows in the small country. The president...
View ArticleSuper Structure
(Our first book on symbolism) John Fraim James Scott Bell hits at the most important topics for writers of drama in his Super Structure. His is a short but important little book on creating the most...
View ArticleLee Henry
By John Fraim In the winter of 1948, eighteen-year-old Leland Henry was completing his senior year at Oakwood High School in Dayton, Ohio and contemplating his future before entering The Ohio State...
View ArticleOld Internet Articles
The other day, I went on a round-up of old articles of mine posted on the Internet over the years. Some of them are posted below in no particular order. Some had wandered far away and found themselves...
View ArticleThe Media of Screenplays
(Email to my friend Eric McLuhan on February 20, 2015.) Eric, It’s a time of gathering ideas for me now. Not any work on my projects except for posts up to my websites. Had a thought today how much...
View ArticleGeneration Heroes
Baby Boom Hero I was a huge fan of Neil Howe’s book The Fourth Turning about generational cycles. I began corresponding with him and we kept in touch over the years. Neil has now set-up a company...
View ArticleCommercials Move Toward Stories
“Turner Native Plus will extend storytelling into the commercial pod by developing the right environment for the client, increasing exposure to the brand, and as a result, driving higher ROI (return...
View ArticleStories From Images
The Diner – Ryan Schude The German photographer and media artist Andreas Müller-Pohle observes that there are two types of photographers: the discoverer and the inventor. The discoverer acts “in...
View ArticleStory Light
Western culture, especially an advanced consumer culture like America, is entranced with the content of life while the context of life remains hidden. The content of life is composed of cultural...
View ArticleA fish in water. The carrier of water.
Your basic fish aquarium. The fight of opposition symbols between the context of a media ecology (like water is to a fish) and the content (fish) living within this ecology. Can one truly discover and...
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