- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing Quotes
The craft and habit of writing.
This set covers a filmmaker tracing an early comedic style back to college years, and advice that writing something and deciding to publish it are two separate decisions entirely. For more on the finished product, see Book.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My humor tends to be a little more edgy than is appropriate for 'Twilight,' although I got some in there. That was fun! There's just a tonal difference. For me, storytelling is storytelling. But, I do like writing for grown ups.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.
- Creative Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost a TV schedule to it. I was constantly working on these projects. There was not a whole lot of lull but I've gone onto other feature projects that's like, 'Okay, I'll get back to you on notes.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't usually think of my writing as a 'challenge' because I enjoy the process so much. I suppose that's what's helped me to avoid 'writer's block' all these years.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two little children. I didn't want to be missing their childhood while I was away, busy writing about children.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been tossing around the idea of writing some non-fiction. Maybe a collection of short stories about my experience being a mom and how not to be perfect.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been writing songs for awhile - since I was 14 - and playing guitar, but I never really knew how to go about making an actual career.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's really hard for me to finish a song unless I have a strong visual in my head while I'm writing it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a blast writing the Ranger in 'The Great Dinosaur Rush' for the Moonstone collection. The story turned out to be twice as long as it was supposed to be, but I was having fun. I even showed the Ranger in his 'old prospector' disguise, and I had some nice exchanges between the Ranger and Tonto.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.
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- Nov 07, 2020