“The subject of the novel is being kept under wraps, which is probably just as well since it is pretty close to impossible to log line any of his original script creations anyway, even if you try after seeing his wonderfully imaginative movies.”
Remember kids, always have a back-up copy, or a see-through briefcase with extra battery.
When he couldn’t get the agent to accept it, the writer took matters into his own hands and dropped off a valise containing a computer on which the script had been saved, cops said.
He also left behind instructions on how to retrieve the manuscript.
But worried workers wondered what was really in the briefcase, so a security guard took it out to an alleyway near the agency.
The police bomb squad followed up, and blew the briefcase to Kingdom Come before realizing it contained only the unwanted movie script, cops said.”
00:05… 00:04… 00:03… 00:02… 00:01… 00:00 seconds of fame.
There’s a belief that to do great work you need tranquility and control, that the pram is cluttering up the hallway; life needs to be neat and tidy. This isn’t the case. Tranquility and control provide the best conditions for completing the work you imagined. But surely the real trick is to produce the work that you never imagined.
- Frank Cottrell Boyce, novelist, screenwriter and father of seven, makes the case for chaos.