Jul 13 Love0 Creating Complex Characters: The Big Lebowski By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action Ever hear the thing about icebergs? WILL: Do you know much about icebergs, Dad? EDWARD: Do I? I saw an…Read More
Jul 01 Love0 Live It, Love It, Learn It… Write It By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action There’s a guy that somehow finds his way into every one of my scripts. He’s roughly between 25-35. Middle class.…Read More
Jun 23 Love0 Hero’s Objective, Part 3: Connection By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action First, the Hero needed a single Objective. Frodo needed to return the ring. The Dude wanted his rug back. Then,…Read More
Jun 16 Love0 Hero’s Objective, Part 2: Opposition By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action Darth Vader. Gollum. Hannibal Lecter. The Wicked Witch of the West. Wherever you find a Hero’s journey, you shall, or…Read More
Jun 08 Love0 Hero’s Objective, Part 1: Spine By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is about 1200 pages from the beginning of Fellowship of the Ring to the…Read More
May 19 Love0 The Power of the Logline By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action “What’s it about?” Ever get that question? What do you say? Do you spout off three or four paragraphs describing…Read More
May 12 Love0 Writing in the Now By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action McKee: Nothing happens in the real world? Are you out of your fucking mind? People are murdered every day! There's…Read More
May 05 Love0 When Voice Over Works By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action Every writer has a different take on Voice Over, but for the most part, the usual argument goes something like…Read More
Apr 28 Love0 The Bull of Writer’s Block By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action “The night was… moist.” -Throw Momma From the Train, 1987 Writer’s Block. I’m not sure that there’s anything more fearful.…Read More
Apr 20 Love0 To Be the Writer By Patrick Kirkland Script Tips... In Action And can you by no drift of conference Get from him why he puts on this confusion, Grating so harshly…Read More