Damn you act one! Break, damn it. My head is rammed firmly into the entrails of what will ultimately be the third draft. Hopefully in time for the anniversary of the first draft, for those of you keeping score at home. Describing the below to Emily, she said if I were an economist I would [...]
Posted by Brendan on March 24, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/what-would-hegel-do/
I’m trying to make this story have more inevitability. Working from the end, I am identifying each payoff (or potential payoff) and determining where to pepper the set-ups and builds. Yesterday, this pattern emerged. Many pieces of yellow, college-ruled paper gave their lives for this graph. The story elements column has been redacted. If for [...]
Posted by Brendan on March 8, 2012
http://www.brendanhughes.com/character-growth-is-a-palindrome/
I spend my days in an office in Los Feliz, surrounded by index cards, books I’ll never read, and this man … … one of the funnier humans groping their way around the crust of this odd little planet. Some hours are passed in silence as we diligently work on our various, mutually exclusive freelance [...]
Posted by Brendan on January 13, 2010
http://www.brendanhughes.com/why-this-draft-of-the-script-is-taking-so-long/
