It wasn’t the code. It wasn’t the layout. Birdigo’s issue came down to a single misunderstanding that revealed exciting possibilities.
Projects
Birdigo comes out July 30th!
Birdigo, the fun word game I made with Corey Martin, comes out on Steam on July 30th. (That’s a Wednesday.) Here’s a brand new trailer: Birdigo began with a mention on Scriptnotes that I was looking for a developer to collaborate with on a new videogame. Corey wrote in; we zoomed; we had a demo […]
How to sell Big Fish
This afternoon, I came across the letter I wrote in 1998 trying to convince Columbia Pictures to option the rights to Daniel Wallace’s novel Big Fish for me to adapt. It’s strange seeing this letter now. In it, I describe the very broad shape of the movie, but at the time I didn’t know so […]
What to do about fake scripts
A listener pointed me to this listing on Barnes & Noble for “Aladdin: Screenplay” by Meredith Day. The listener writes: This is clearly a bootleg, and the Kindle preview shows it’s just a movie transcript without any proper formatting. You don’t even get credit as a screenwriter in the book. On Amazon you can find […]
What I Learned Writing a Trilogy
Here’s what I wish someone had told me before I started writing the Arlo Finch trilogy.
2020 Annual Review
Now that we’ve called a wrap on 2020, a year that maybe wasn’t the worst in history but sure felt like it, I want to take stock of what I accomplished over the prior 12 months. While the pandemic impacted everything, many aspects of my life marched along with minimal disruption. I still wrote movies. […]
