MN to Hollywood
Blog URL http://mn2la.blogspot.com
Located Minneapolis, Minnesota USA
Tags screenwriting, acting, directing, producing, hollywood, minnesota, los angeles, industry
Follow an actor/writer/producer/director on his journey from small-town Minnesota to Hollywood.
Latest Blog Posts
- Pilar Alessandra – You Had Me at Page One on Nov 24, 2009
Along with Creative Screenwriting’s weekly interview podcast, Pilar Alessandra’s On the Page podcast is an essential listen for any screenwriter. If you have iTunes, subscribe to both. Now. Ms. Alessandra taught all day Friday. ...
- Talent Managers Panel featuring Philippa Burgess, Christopher Pratt, and Andy Corren on Nov 18, 2009
“Queries don’t work.” – Philippa Burgess, Christopher Pratt, and Andy Corren Earlier this year I made a concentrated effort to fully research and query specific agents and managers. Personalizing my queries, I reasoned, would more effe...
- Michael Hauge – Sell Your Story in 60 Seconds on Nov 13, 2009
I’ve read Michael Hauge’s Writing Screenplays that Sell and listened to his CD lecture Screenwriting for Hollywood. His and Christopher Vogler’s The Hero’s 2 Journeys is a DVD I’ve been slowly working my way through over the last year...
- George Escobar – The New Christian Film Movement on Nov 8, 2009
“Movies have become more influential than the church.” – George Barna How can one ninety minute seminar be equally inspiring and disparaging at the same time? George Escobar’s was the first session I attended at the 2009 Screenwriting...
- Decisions on Oct 29, 2009
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” – Voltaire I am inanely annoyed by most sports broadcast analysts. They get paid handsomely to repeat recycled comments week after week after week. Gee, did you hear Adr...
- Hope on Oct 23, 2009
“To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.” – Robert Louis Stevenson I plan to soon share my experiences from the 2009 Screenwriting Expo, but I received my weekly Max Lucado e-newsletter today and found its message remarkably poig...
- Soap Athetic updated links on Oct 17, 2009
I realized some time ago that the Soap Athetic links in earlier blog entries are now dead. We removed the show from Numa Network, but I have re-cut it into three segments and inserted a few extra jokes that weren’t in the original release....
