{"id":154,"date":"2008-05-18T20:05:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T08:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/18\/point-click-8\/"},"modified":"2013-09-18T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T21:28:10","slug":"point-click-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Point &#038; Click"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got three, no, four, posts that I&#8217;m having trouble getting over the finish line, so it&#8217;s <i>lookee what i found!<\/i> time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My awareness of the New Zild screenwriting blogosphere has just increased by 33%: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shortland_Street\" target=\"_blank\">Shortland Street<\/a> scribe <b>Edwin McRae<\/b> blogs about his process at <a href=\"http:\/\/fictionengine.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fiction Engine<\/a>. (Fedora-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/nzwg.org.nz\/writer_71543.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Reid<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phillbarron.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mr Barron<\/a> &#8211; whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedupthemovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">feature<\/a> is shooting as I type this &#8211; was thrown a curly one recently: he was asked to rewrite the scene in which his hero meets his love interest &#8211; but <a href=\"http:\/\/phillbarron.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/28\/character-introductions\/\" target=\"_blank\">without the love interest-to-be actually <i>in it<\/i><\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fast-Cheap-Under-Control-Low-Budget\/dp\/1932907157\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1211097030&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Fast, Cheap and Under Control<\/a> author, <b>John Gaspard<\/b>, has started putting snippets of his interviews on his blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/fastcheapmoviethoughts.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fast, Cheap Movie Thoughts<\/a>. See where the heck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0432380\/\" target=\"_blank\">Miranda July<\/a> is coming from with <a href=\"http:\/\/rogerebert.suntimes.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050623\/REVIEWS\/50524002\/1023\" target=\"_blank\">Me and You and Everyone We Know<\/a>. Read how easy it was for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0573796\/\" target=\"_blank\">John McNaughton<\/a> to score a hundred grand to make his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0099763\/\" target=\"_blank\">first feature<\/a>, hahaha. (Fedora-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/complicationsensue.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/fast-and-cheap.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Epstein<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone went to the trouble of typing in each and every title listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fexec%2Fobidos%2FASIN%2F0789313707%2Fref%3Dnosim%2F0sil8&amp;tag=johnaugustcom-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die<\/a>. Hollywood screenwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0041864\/\" target=\"_blank\">John August<\/a> has read 38 of them but would&#8217;ve scored higher if non-fiction was included. I scored 41 but would&#8217;ve scored higher if they included more comics. The Goddess, a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">enthusiastic<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">avid<\/span> <b>voracious<\/b> reader, scored 115. (Fedora-tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/johnaugust.com\/archives\/2008\/well-rea\" target=\"_blank\">John August<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got three, no, four, posts that I&#8217;m having trouble getting over the finish line, so it&#8217;s lookee what i found! time: My awareness of the New Zild screenwriting blogosphere has just increased by 33%: Shortland Street scribe Edwin McRae blogs about his process at Fiction Engine. (Fedora-tip: Mr Reid.) Mr Barron &#8211; whose feature &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/point-click-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Point &#038; Click&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[350,660,25,1004,1006,1005,449,671],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-point-click","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-alex-epstein","tag-benedict-reid","tag-john-august","tag-john-gaspard","tag-john-mcnaughton","tag-miranda-july","tag-phill-barron","tag-shortland-street"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}