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September 13, 2005

Piece of Cake…

I came across this article and thought I’d share it with you… sounds like a piece of cake...

As an indie producer, all ya gotta do is find a star to sign on the dotted line, get a completion bond company to give you a completion bond, sell presales to your movie that doesn’t exist yet in countries around the globe and take those agreements (the countries don’t give you money until you give them a film) to a bank to get the money to move ahead and make your film… as I said, piece of cake… or maybe not. EB

P.S.- Script comes first though... still writing.

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September 09, 2005

OK... OK...

... I know that I haven't been posting as of late and all but I promise to the one of you readers out there...

...that it will get more prolific. I know how much I've been bitching about hating re-writing and that I'm trying to get through my page one re-write... well, I still am.

I'm taking this Friday night and am going to finish the last 10 or so pages so I can then go through it with a fine tooth comb, send it back to my reader and then wait to get slashed and burned again into more changes. I've been stuck on these last 10 pages for about two weeks. There are any nubmer of ways to end the thing but what I've been doing is waiting for my gut to speak to me about which way to go... and now, I think I've got it.

It is all very frustrating but the reason for being slow and taking my time is to do it right... I know in my gut of guts what is and is not working and I have a feeling most writers do. The problem is that making changes to one little itty bitty thing leads to any number of changes throughout the entire piece... that's what scares us away from listening to those nagging gut instincts. This time, I'm not going to shy away from them... taking them straight on.

I'll let you know how it turns out... keep your fingers crossed. EB

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