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About Me | Jamie McCarty
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My career started at ABC News in 2003 as an Intern and later a Desk Assistant on various shows including Good Morning America, World News with Peter Jennings (later with Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas) World News Weekend, World News Now and America this Morning. I left ABC News to join ESPN’s Domestic News Assignment Desk in 2007. There I oversaw Domestic Planning for all of ESPN’s major studio shows including SportsCenter, NFL Live, ESPNEWS, First Take and Baseball Tonight. I can't wait to binge...
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Writers Rehab: October 2011
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For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together by D.B. Gilles. A New Screenwriting Book Worth Checking Out. As the author of one book on screenwriting and another on filmmaking (The Portable Film School), I'm always wary of the competition. To be honest, there are lots of good books for new or newish screenwriters. None of them are really bad. It's just that some are really good. Superior. Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You can, Too! What do you do?
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Writers Rehab: June 2014
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For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together by D.B. Gilles. It's been awhile, almost nine months since I last posted. But I have an excuse. I've been busy and lucky enough to get work. Yes. Work! Lo and behold: a script came across his desk, which he optioned and remembered my screenplay and called me because it needed a rewrite. It's good to be remembered. Anyway, I'm happy to be back in the saddle and I will be posting on a regular basis. Writers Rehab, Never Trust Ann Coulter. Is for writers whoR...
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Writers Rehab: Are You An Overwriter or Underwriter?
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For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together by D.B. Gilles. Are You An Overwriter or Underwriter? Screenplays, as well as all forms of writing, are either overwritten or underwritten. And I don't mean strictly by length. An overwriter will write a screenplay that's just too long. I encourage people to shoot for 110 pages, but many new (and experienced) screenwriters go way over, as well as way under. The other problem area is what I'm dealing with today. Overwritten scenes are frustrating to read becau...
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Writers Rehab: February 2012
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For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together by D.B. Gilles. The Academy Awards 2012. I went to see the film because I like Gary Oldman and I trusted the reviews (which I rarely do). I never read a review until after I see a movie. But the buzz in the quotes in the newspaper ads made it seem like a great film. I suggest that you see this movie as an assignment. Tell me if you understand it. Tell me what the structure is. Tell me what the hell it's supposed to be about. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). TO CON...
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Writers Rehab: December 2011
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For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together by D.B. Gilles. The Challenge of Writing A Time Travel Story. The best time travel movies have one thing in common. The portal to the past or future is believable. Back To The Future. Is the best example of a believable way to go back in time. If you've seen the movie you know that the character played by Christopher LLoyd takes a DeLorean automobile, soups it up and with some bells and whistles enables Michael J. Fox to go, well, back to the future. My only ...
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Writers Rehab: September 2011
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For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together by D.B. Gilles. A Few Words About Dialogue. Dialogue can be lifelike or artificial. Lifelike is how people really talk. Artificial is sanitized lifelikeish dialogue. Much of the dialogue on bad TV sitcoms is artificial. Everybody's funny (in real life everyone isn't). Be the clever, witty guy - if that's. Characters in every form of fiction tend to be drawn from real life. Your success as a screenwriter will depend on your powers of observation and on you...
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Writers Rehab: March 2013
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For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together by D.B. Gilles. Is Finding The Spine of Your Story Breaking Your Back? As with all writing, no matter if it's a novel, screenplay, television pilot or play, everything boils down to structure. Without it, you're doomed. Without even a basic cause and effect outline, eventually you'll hit a brick wall. Even when we have a detailed scene by scene or chapter by chapter outline, the actual writing part is difficult, some say even torturous. I saw the movie years ...
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Writers Rehab: June 2012
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For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together by D.B. Gilles. Are You An Overwriter or Underwriter? Screenplays, as well as all forms of writing, are either overwritten or underwritten. And I don't mean strictly by length. An overwriter will write a screenplay that's just too long. I encourage people to shoot for 110 pages, but many new (and experienced) screenwriters go way over, as well as way under. The other problem area is what I'm dealing with today. Overwritten scenes are frustrating to read becau...
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Writers Rehab: December 2012
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For Writers Who Can’t Get Their Acts Together by D.B. Gilles. Don't Keep Knocking On The Door When You Know In Your Heart Nobody's Coming. Unfortunately, the world doesn't care and it won't be a welcoming place for your baby to enter into. That's where you come in. Unless you have contacts in high places or a referral to someone who can help you, you and only you. Are responsible for finding a contact in a high place and getting your own referrals. Too many new (and not so new) writers are helpless.