{"id":333,"date":"2010-08-03T02:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T09:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2010-08-03T02:55:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T09:55:30","slug":"dabbling-in-screenwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/?p=333","title":{"rendered":"Dabbling in Screenwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bear-vs-snake-deathmatch-2006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-192\" title=\"bear-vs-snake-deathmatch-2006\" src=\"http:\/\/writeolive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bear-vs-snake-deathmatch-2006-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I got this idea into my head a month or two ago, that it might be a good\u00a0idea to dabble in a bit of screenwriting. I mean I love film, I love writing; so it made sense to combine the two.<\/p>\n<p>I considered buying a book on screenwriting and giving it a go in my spare time. But, with everything going on, I knew that I would\u00a0 need more motivation.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve signed up for the UCLA summer screenwriting course. I&#8217;m in awe of the students who previously took Richard Walter&#8217;s class, such as\u00a0the writer of the fantastic &#8220;Milk&#8221; or\u00a0blockbusters like\u00a0&#8220;Jurassic Park&#8221; or &#8220;Spiderman.&#8221; It will be an interesting, if busy summer and I&#8217;ll keep you all posted as to how\u00a0it&#8217;s going.<\/p>\n<p>On an entirely different note, I&#8217;ve posted this week&#8217;s photo for any of you who are interested in taking part in this week&#8217;s writing exercise or prompt, it&#8217;s over <a href=\"http:\/\/creativewriting.ie\/2010\/08\/03\/august-03-this-weeks-photo\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I got this idea into my head a month or two ago, that it might be a good\u00a0idea to dabble in a bit of screenwriting. I mean I love film, I love writing; so it made sense to combine the two. I considered buying a book on screenwriting and giving it a go in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliveobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}