Good morning, fellow artists! Welcome to another exciting edition of my weekly blog. As you all know, I am focusing on three goals this year. Those goals are: 1) Book supporting roles in feature films produced and distributed by independent or mid-sized studios. 2) Complete the second draft of “The Third Act” feature film script with Kelly Tighe. 3) Write and complete the first draft of my rugby feature film script. Each week, I will provide updates that are hopefully inspiring and engaging.
I’ve begun writing the second half of act two for my latest feature film script on April 22nd, 2025! So far, I’ve written scenes for the following pairs of reversals: Yes 8, No 8, Yes 9, No 9, Yes 10, No 10. Still armed with the feature film treatment I created during my Sundance Collab course, my dialogue for these scenes flowed out pretty smoothly. I had a beginning, middle, and end. I focused on the event and the emotional life of the characters. Keep reading below 🙂
There were a few instances where my dialogue became a placeholder. It wasn’t quite right, but I was at least in the zip code of what I was trying to write. In those instances, I took a break and stepped away. And when I did that, the answers popped into my head. The dialogue appeared much more clearly. “A-ha! I got it! That’s it!” I immediately grabbed paper and pen and wrote down this new and improved dialogue that took the scene to another level. It was a lesson in patience and trust, knowing that the actual dialogue would eventually come to me. Keep reading below 🙂
See you next week!
