Me looking fancy.
Jonathan W.C. Mills - Directors Reel
Wheeee. 7 Min of fun.
my hottie honey
(Source: whereisthecoool)
Website Update - Deepwoods
Updated my website - I have to say - I am loving it. But then again I would say that wouldn’t I.
My New Directors Reel
Not much to say. This is 7 minutes out of three projects plus a montage…it’s pretty cool…if I do say so myself. Music credit: DJ Crawl, Skrillex Mini-Mix
SORRY IT”S BEEN A WHILE…
Writing is the flip side of sex – it’s good only when it’s over.
Hunter S. Thompson
I just finished another script and sent it off to my managers today. It feels extremely good to be done. I decide I’m done, or that I need fresh eyes, when I can no longer bear to look at the material anymore and think the project is mostly shit.
That’s when I believe it’s time to send it out for a read. Does that sound counter intuitive? Perhaps. But the fact is that writing is the most difficult of things, the more you do the easier it is, that’s true…(and remains true about a great many pleasure giving activities I might add) but it’s damn hard WORK.
What’s this script about? It’s called HOMESTEAD and the log line is this:
A reality television producer moves his family to Northern Canada to live off the land and film the experience. But when he interferes with a Native rite he plunges them into a battle for survival against the elements, their sanity…and something darker than they could ever imagine.
I make my living as an author, and by most measures, I am successful. My novels are published by Scholastic and HarperCollins and have received critical acclaim. Three of the four that are published have hit both the New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Lists. My fifth book will be published in March, and I’m crossing my fingers for similar successes.
Every one of my books, including the one that is not yet available, has been pirated. They are all available through torrent sites, via links at blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other social networks. It’s awful to stumble upon a link to a torrent site where I can see that hundreds of thousands of people have downloaded my books for free. It’s a terrible feeling to know that these people either have no understanding of how their digital theft might impact my livelihood or, worse, understand it and simply don’t care.
It’s frustrating, infuriating and, honestly? It makes me sad. This is personal for me. There are few things in the world I loathe more than online piracy.
But, here’s the thing: Providing media companies with near-unfettered access to block/shut-down websites and networks that pirates use to link/promote piracy won’t help. It will hinder.
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Sarah MacLean (Here’s Sarah’s Tumblr)
I’m not seeing nearly enough people in the traditional entertainment/publishing/etc. industry writing stuff like this.
(via ericmortensen)
