Finding Fellini

La Strada of an Indypedantic Storyteller

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Ripping and Running

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I typed 11,000 words between Friday and Saturday night. This story is just pouring out of me. I haven't gone back and read any of it exc...
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Talk about steady

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I've been kicking out 2500 words a day in about three and a half hours of writing this week. I now know where the story is going and rou...
Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Steady Positioning

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After writing prose for an hour yesterday I spent several hours editing. In between I made a blog entry and updated my word count. I was v...
Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Could this be love?

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I'm at my office today trying to finish the edits of the scenes from Magnolia for class tonight. I spent too long installing necessary ...
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Monday, June 23, 2008

The Great American ...

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... Novel. At least I'm writing what I would like to think is going to be novel. Once begun half done, as it were. I've been all ...
Sunday, June 22, 2008

Movies as of late

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Some movies I've seen lately, graded academically Ironman B+ Quai de les Orfevres A Zodiac A- The Birds C Indiana Jones IV. D Harry Pott...
Thursday, June 19, 2008

Into Action

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It was good to air a little frustration yesterday. Not only to get it off my mind, but it also prompted a little cutting work. One of thos...
Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Editing Doldrums

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It really isn't the season to be doing a lot of editing. I don't know though if I think any season is the right time of year to toi...
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Friday, June 13, 2008

The Master Says 315

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I've always found it difficult to find people who understand what I'm trying to do and who don't think I'm completely mad. L...
Thursday, June 12, 2008

The Master Says 314

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If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he ...
Friday, June 06, 2008

The Master Says 313

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Chaos is a friend of mine. Bob Dylan
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

The Master Says 312

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The camera is the eye of the marvelous. When the eye of the cinema really sees, the whole world goes up in flames. Luis Bunuel

Piling on the Pounds

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I gave that JGp assembly another look last night. I was able to give in a bit more to the experience of it. As such I'm starting to fa...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Nothing Matters

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I'm feeling a bit insecure about this, hearing voices in my head. One of the reasons I dislike acting in my own films is the lack of se...
Monday, June 02, 2008

The Master Says 312

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All good acting is about detail. It's about fighting generality. Paul Greengrass
Friday, May 30, 2008

The Master Says 311

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Technique has to enrich the action. Francois Truffaut

Camera Points of View

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There is one thing with regard to filmmaking where I've long agreed and possibily fallen under the spell of Mamet's didacticism. It ...
Thursday, May 29, 2008

The Master Says 310

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Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning. Chopin
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Bright Shiny Morning

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Just read James Frey's new book on the flight home. Los Angeles is a magical place. It's cloudy today in Portland but the morning ...
Sunday, May 25, 2008

Good Company

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I've spent most of the past two days in my hotel room. I know what that might signify to one of my readers in particular, but I assure...
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Signore Direttore
In my pursuit of mastery of the telling stories, I often encounter more of Fellini's fodder and folly than his methods and genius.
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