Martell's Bluebook Secrets series -- just came in the mail!

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Randall_Oelerich

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Just got my Wm C Martell Bluebook Series secrets books in the mail, nice! I am all but guaranteed now to make a fortune writing an oscar winning screenplay! Fame and Fortune, make way, I'm coming! Yabba dabba doo! Plus Bill included a couple of freebies-- two CDs on seminar secrets for Writing Horror (yes!) and for Guerella Marketing (thanks Bill for the freebies, and if you made a mistake and I was supposed to get charged for them, well, uh, call my sister Jenny at 867-5309 to square things, LOL.
~randall
 
kylekmd said:
Randall, you're reading an awful lot these days!:)
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I can usually read a non-fiction book in a day pretty easy, so yeah I read quite a bit. My biggest problem is buying way too many books, several thousand dollars worth of books each year off amazon; then they build up and i have to dump them every few years, too much clutter! And I am going broke buying yellow highlighters!

I think I am about two books away from having read all those books on your list Kyle! I might slow down then, go out and enjoy hiking the woods or kayak the shore here on Lake Superior, now that the snow is almost melted away. Some very cool sea caves around here I want to explore-- I had an idea for a horror story involving them, and a lighthouse, how knows those might become the settings for a KISS script and indie feature! (plus the Palisades cliffs up the shore, someone could easily be tossed off those in a story, cinematic; used i think in a movie with that kid from Home Alone)
=) randall
 
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Randall, I'm an Amazon addict as well. Easily blow $1-2K a year on books there.

Here's one of my screenwriting/filmmaking bookshelves. I have another downstairs in my office that's a little larger.

The big red Metaphor's dictionary (by Sommer & Weiss, bottom left of the photo) is great for sparking scene ideas that follow theme.
 

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Kyle that picture made me chuckle this morning, thanks for sharing. I am trying to become more of a minimalist as I plan to move in 1-3 years out of this frozen boreal prison/paradise (6 months of ice prison, 6 months of paradise here) so it irks me a bit when i just keep on buying books and more books. I guess a person could have worse vices. An addition to knowledge is not so bad. My greatest peeve about dying some day is not having the time to learn more, experience the many things that would require multiple lifetimes; that, and not knowing why the universe is (exists) rather than there just being nothing, how an uncaused thing can exist-- mind blowing.
~randall
 
I LOVE Bill's books and highly recommend them to anyone wanting to screenwrite. He's one cool dude.
 
Charli said:
I LOVE Bill's books and highly recommend them to anyone wanting to screenwrite. He's one cool dude.
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I wish he would compile them all into a single volume, make a typical inch thick paperback book to sell on amazon. Certainly enough material to do so. Bill?
 
Actually about 3-4 normal sized screenwriting books (by word count).

Plan is to get the action book rewritten - I talked to a few publishers last year who are interested - and set up the action book with 6 other book proposals (most material is written, needs to be edited into books) - then the publisher would roll those out over a period of years. So, it may take a while before they are on Amazon.

Problem with all of this is that this pesky screenwriting stuff keeps getting in the way! Had a meeting with a producer yesterday who likes an adventure pitch of mine and may hire me to write it. Meanwhile, the studio remake of the 80s film is now out to stars and directors...

- Bill
 
wcmartell said:
Actually about 3-4 normal sized screenwriting books (by word count). Plan is to get the action book rewritten - I talked to a few publishers last year who are interested - and set up the action book with 6 other book proposals (most material is written, needs to be edited into books) - then the publisher would roll those out over a period of years. So, it may take a while before they are on Amazon. Problem with all of this is that this pesky screenwriting stuff keeps getting in the way! Had a meeting with a producer yesterday who likes an adventure pitch of mine and may hire me to write it. Meanwhile, the studio remake of the 80s film is now out to stars and directors.- Bill
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Us wannabe screenwriters should be so lucky as to have your "problems" (successes)! :beer:
 
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