If you have read the introduction on my home page you’ll know that I have set myself a goal for 2010: get published or fail spectacularly! Self-made promises are easily broken, forgotten and consigned to the recycle bin of the mind. Twelve months later they are rescued and reissued, usually to face the same fate as before. So, how can I guarantee that this year will be any different for me and my resolution? You’re looking at it.
“The last person to receive credit for a film’s success, down the line after the cinematographer, composer and producer’s brother-in-law is the screenwriter. Nobody cares about the writer.” James V. Hart.[1] When films first started being made there were no scripts. Each scene was improvised by the director as he ordered each actor around the set, telling them what to do during the next shot. Sub-titles were always written later and added when the film was being edited. When it became impossible to make films by improvisation the screenplay came into being. At this stage film was developing into [...]
Every January I make the same resolution; “I will be a published author by the year’s end”. Six months later I celebrate my birthday and I make the same one. So, twice a year my, aspirations, hopes or dreams are hoisted up my mast of intentions and are blown away by responsibility, sensibility and priority. My name is Orrin Monro and I am an unpublished author. So, another year and the same resolution, and now another birthday has passed and still the game goes on. But this year I hope to do something about it and to help me along [...]
