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This script is one born out of what is perhaps the most important writing principle I learned in my collegiate career: revision. In fact, this play began as the play that the young playwright, Adam, struggles to write as he can’t seem to control his character. It took my own struggling with controlling my characters, [...]
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Songwriter Stephen Bishop discusses his book “Songs in the Rough” (a compilation of rough drafts of great songs by great songwriters), and what he hopes to communicate by putting such a book together.
Stephen Bishop is a composer and film scorer who has written songs for more than a dozen films including Tootsie and Animal House. [...]
Artist, songwriter, and film composer Randy Newman gives advice to those pursuing songwriting.
Randy Newman is a songwriter, film composer, artist, and arranger who is known for the biting social satire of his pop songs as well for as his many award-winning film scores. Among the films he has provided music for are The Natural, Ragtime, [...]
To write a novel, read as many other novels as possible, take a fiction writing class and make an outline of the events of a novel. Write a novel about something important to you, as the the author, and be sure to re-write and edit with help from a playwright in this free video on [...]
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Writing a novel requires reading a variety of other novels, having a great deal of persistence to keep writing all the time and knowledge of the characters, inside and out.
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Invite Bruce Springsteen for the opening of the Walter Percy Center
Invite Don Delillo to speak
Invite Ron Pierce to speak – poet in residence at Juilliard
Invite reps from the Writers Guild and Random House to discuss [...]
Genres and Their Champions – This could be a long list, obviously, so we may want to lump some categories together or just prioritize according to our expertise and interests. Clearly, all of these have a great number of subcategories. And the categories overlap and blend, so don’t let me fall into the trap of [...]
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Lists – This is an old idea that we might be able to put to some use, if for no other reason than they seem to work, top 10, top 100, best of, greatest hits, etc. Such lists may be especially useful on the website, even as they are distilled to “favorite”, “desert island”, “most [...]
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Questions/Issues – This is a random list, not all that different from the Ideas/Topics list; please add to it, rate, etc. These are secondary issues on our planning, of course, but fun to think about.
Does Loyola need an Online Press? (yes!)
How is has and is [...]
Ideas/Topics – This is a random list of things that occurred to me that could be subjects for seminars, courses, weekend retreats, speeches, etc. Some could be addressed as resources and blogs in a website. Please add to, rate, prioritize or disregard.
The Art of the Narrative – The Keystone
Movies [...]
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