Funny is only something that others know about you - you can't be funny by yourself. Chris Rock - His next film sounds intriguing.
Category: Writing Inspiration
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Oscar winning screenwriter Chris Terrio on Argo. There were definitely moments where I worried that I wasn’t giving a comprehensive enough version of this moment in history. As American filmmakers, we can never tell a comprehensive story about the plight of people in Iran at that moment, but the film — without ever losing the … Continue reading QOTD
“Lena Dunham is talking to you”
Our very own Katie Arnoldi (theOffice member since '07) has some choice words to say about Lena Dunham and body issues over on The Nervous Breakdown. A professional bodybuilder turned best-selling novelist (Chemical Pink), Mrs. Arnoldi knows of what she speaks. Check out her essay here.
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You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep … Continue reading QOTD
Member Chatter
On the internet vs. writing. Well I am a novelist, unlike most of my fellow writers at the office, so I probably have less reason than most to be online. I do use google or wikipedia for quick research questions, but generally I try to stay offline while I am working. Its too distracting. I … Continue reading Member Chatter
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Loving me with my shows off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked. Intricate nubs, my toes. No longer bound. And what's more, see toenails and all ten stages, root by root. All spirited and wild, this little piggy … Continue reading QOTD- Valentine edition
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I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable. David Lynch
Member Chatter
The writing process is different for everyone and infinitely fascinating. Since we are surrounded my successful screenwriters and novelists here at theOffice, I thought I'd nose around and see how it is they do what they do. I'll post whatever anecdotes/confessions/advice they have to offer here on the blog. We'll call it Member Chatter. Let … Continue reading Member Chatter
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Behn Zeitlin, writer/director of Beasts of the Southern Wild, on working and living in Louisiana. Me and Louisiana are involved in a epic romance that has spiraled completely out of control. I was supposed to get home in October 2006 and that obviously hasn’t happened. It was like I showed up to have a brief … Continue reading QOTD
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A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy. John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany
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