As the new season continues to spring leaks, here’s more warmth from enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):
For those focusing on the more secular potential of Easter weekend…
Since so far the calendar doesn’t mean much in eastern North America…
The First Taste of Success – with agent:
(a) “It takes a lot of work for an agent to break in a new writer, so the things they’re gonna look for are really straight-forward. One, a really good personality, because they have to put you in a room with people. Two, that you have very (more…)
Supposedly it’s spring – here’s more emotive warmth from enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):
Yesterday I participated in a conference call presentation concerning the keys to writing what was termed the ‘profound’ screenplay.
The importance of having a profound impact is not only the intrinsic value to the writer, insofar as unveiling a more layered, and thus impactful story, but also the enhanced marketability to the screenplay reader, then to the potential project producer. (more…)
The Marketplace – the reader’s perspective:
“My goal is to assess every script that I get from two standpoints: Is this a strong story and is this a commercial product? I look at the concept and the premise, and then I examine the execution, the structure, and the storyline. Then I’m going to look at the stakes and the tension, the characters, the relationships, the dialogue, whether the material is emotionally resonant, thematically relevant. (more…)
Spring in fact, if not in deed, starts tomorrow – so here’s more warmth from enlivened clichés (with the original in italics):
the watch of time 
Euphemistic Financial Terminology
The financial and insurance service industries in Canada is being regulated toward fuller disclosure to clients about both costs and performance of mutual fund investments and accounts content. In turn, the companies affected arestudying and materializing ways in which to provide ‘clear and transparent (more…)
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