Showing posts with label editor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label editor. Show all posts

Thursday, March 08, 2012

Listen to Neale Sourna Audio Interviews. Enjoy!

Author, publisher, editor, lover of history and relationship mores throughout the centuries. Short Stories (short story), Novels, Nonfiction Sex Manuals, Game Stories, Scripts/Screenplays, and more.... Listen

Saturday, October 15, 2011

DOCUMENTARY APPRENTICE EDITOR WORKSHOP INTENSIVE

Finished Filmmaker/Director Laura Paglin's [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1490119/] w/ Editor Lee Will [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2241444/], Editor Nels Bangerter [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1637105/], and Editor Chris Osborn [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0651557/] DOCUMENTARY APPRENTICE EDITOR WORKSHOP INTENSIVE.

Was very exciting, a bit daunting, but verrry coool. Learned a lot, met cool people. Tri-C/Cuyahoga Community College and the Cleveland Film Commission are a good mix. Even remet a fellow Extras from I, Alex Cross and Marvel's The Avengers.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Premise is NOT Product.

Contrary to what nonwriters and brand new writers with a burning idea believe, an exciting premise is not product.

It isn't the finished, intriguing work.

Not the story that pulls us in and we feel compelled to repeat to all we meet, imploring to them to read it, too, or at least how "clever" or "romantic" or "blood-thirsty" or profoundly "so much like the real" experience it is.

That requires writing. And editing.

Premise is an idea.

Writing until it is complete, after edits, and published to be performed by the reader's mind or an actor is product.

Wishing you have product, or thinking that since you awoke with this great premise will not magically distill a fine product; not unless you are a writer-editor, screenwriter-editor with patience and drive to completion.

Or a person with a great premise, solid notes, and a payment for a writer to complete your premise to product book, screenplay, novel, game, etcetera.

I'm just sayin'. Premise is not product, people.

--Neale Sourna
Writing-Naked.com