http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Gordy+Hoffman Writing Gordy Hoffman Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=130251&ca=Writing If you’re like me, if someone doesn’t like something about my screenplay, my very first reaction is always the same. You’re not as smart as me. If you knew what I knew, you would understand what I wrote. And you don’t understand what I wrote, because you don’t know as much as I do. About everything,... Writing Gordy Hoffman Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=36393&ca=Writing I’ve only finished so many screenplays in my life. Writing a script all the way to the very last page is always an extremely significant, personal achievement for me. A large part of its significance is the reality that I actually wrote an ending, or, at the very least, typed “THE END.” Trying to fi... Entertainment Gordy Hoffman Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=36392&ca=Entertainment I am lucky. I have no problems coming up with very good ideas for movies. If I never had another idea for the rest of my life, I would not make a sizable dent in the ones I already have. Screenwriters who struggle with coming up with an idea tend to be visibly annoyed when I tell them this. I think... Entertainment Gordy Hoffman Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=36394&ca=Entertainment The promise of the rewrite is very sweet. I have collected evidence that the more authentic the labor put into rewriting your screenplay, the greater the reward, and the reward is high, for whatever lovely, wonderful moments you might have discovered in the frightening process of plowing through the... Writing Gordy Hoffman Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=34964&ca=Writing After cracking hundreds of screenplays sent into the BlueCat Screenplay Competition, the same problems in the execution of the story and script continue to emerge. Here is a general overview of these persistent issues. Do you realize what you're saying?? In the theatre, they read plays aloud over an... Writing Gordy Hoffman Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=35700&ca=Writing Starting a screenplay can sometimes be as hard as finishing one. Impatient to pull up to the front door of a classic motion picture, I want to get everything right so quickly. This impatience challenges my trust in the work, the creative process of screenwriting. What exactly does trust mean? If I d...