The Thought Diary
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Thought Diary Let’s imagine you wrote a thought diary every day. (Which I did for some time and it’s highly recommendable.) What would be in it? My takeaway was that most of the thoughts that I had in a day were almost the same every day. Later, I...
Is Final Draft 11 Worth It?
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Is Final Draft 11 Worth Its Cost? There are two sides to this question. You’re a fairly new screenwriter and somewhere along the way, maybe through internet research, in a writer’s group or some other place you’ve heard that Final Draft is “the industry standard”...
Things You Can Do While You Hate Your Day Job
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Things You Can Do While You Hate Your Day Job A lot of writers are in this situation: Having a day job to pay the bills (and probably feed the kids), while at the same time trying to keep your writing endeavours going. And I don’t know...
Can You Use Final Draft For Book Writing
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Can You Write A Book With Final Draft? Simple answer: Yes, you can. But would you want to? There are a couple of things that you should keep in mind before you start writing your novel in Final Draft. The version I’m using for the purpose of demonstration...
Create Delight Before It’s Expected
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Create Delight Before It's Expected When the movie “Face/Off” with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage came out I just loved in right from the start. I remember sitting in the cinema and there’s a shootout right at the beginning that at the time was at...
A Confused Mind Never Buys
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] A Confused Mind Never Buys The phrase comes from the marketing world but it applies perfectly well for writing. Think about the last great movie or tv show you saw. Or the last great book you read. Was there any moment of confusion in there? I guess not. Now,...
How To Use The Final Draft 11 Beat Board
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Learn How To Use Final Draft 11’s Beat Board The Beat Board in Final Draft 11 is basically a canvas where you can put different kinds of information as cards in order to have a place apart from your script to store that information. This can...
If You Do It It’s Easy, If You Don’t Do It It’s Hard
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] If You Do It It's Easy, If You Don't Do It It's Hard Pick one thing you’re fantasizing about. And with fantasizing about I mean one thing that you’ve been wanted to do for quite some time, but until now you haven’t done it yet. There might...
How To Get Inspired To Write
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] How To Get Inspired To Write There are many misconceptions about many things but among creative people the concept of inspiration is in the top 3 I believe. What most people think is this: Inspiration is something that sometimes - if you’re lucky - turns up all...
Discipline Equals Freedom
[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Discipline Equals Freedom I heard someone say the phrase the other day. It describes something very important, something that is easily missed. A lot of people struggle with discipline. They are distracted all the time about all the wonderful and not so great things in life. I mean,...