Re: Does anyone know anything about UCLA online screenwritng courses?
He was right. For screenwriting, though, I know that the best courses can both expose you to the greatest films and give you direction towards finding a way to deal with the structures and nuances of writing for cinema. Screenwriting is a thing of rules; novel-writing is a great deal more free in how one approaches and practices it.
But practice is all. John Coltrane would come home from a gig, pick up his sax and practice. He would take the horn and lie down and practice until he fell asleep, and then when he woke he would pick up where he left off. I think the same bullheadedness applies to writing when one wants to become a professional.[/quote]
That's the kind of thing I hope to get in a class, I think maybe like shaping loose talent into form. To broaden my limited scope to the deeper posibilities of craft. And yup, lot's of practice and feedback, to open my baby eyes to what I haven't yet discovered.
Jennifer
He was right. For screenwriting, though, I know that the best courses can both expose you to the greatest films and give you direction towards finding a way to deal with the structures and nuances of writing for cinema. Screenwriting is a thing of rules; novel-writing is a great deal more free in how one approaches and practices it.
But practice is all. John Coltrane would come home from a gig, pick up his sax and practice. He would take the horn and lie down and practice until he fell asleep, and then when he woke he would pick up where he left off. I think the same bullheadedness applies to writing when one wants to become a professional.[/quote]
That's the kind of thing I hope to get in a class, I think maybe like shaping loose talent into form. To broaden my limited scope to the deeper posibilities of craft. And yup, lot's of practice and feedback, to open my baby eyes to what I haven't yet discovered.
Jennifer
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