Meanwhile, I have a new big writing gig that I can't really talk about very much.
So, I've written a brand new book, The Secrets of Character: Writing a Hero Anyone Will Love. And then ‘Writer's Digest' was owned up by Penguin Random House, and Penguin Random House asked me to do a new one.
That book has been very successful, and I've been very gratified by that success. I did not come up with the very wordy subtitle of that book, ‘Writer's Digest' did. And people really liked my writing advice, and so they said, ‘You should collect this in a book.' I wrote a book called Secrets of Story: Innovative Tools for Perfecting Your Fiction and Captivating Readers. So I started giving writing advice, and that took off. I'm like, ‘I gotta come up with another way to blog every day.' And I'm like, ‘I can start doing writing advice to make it easier on myself.' And then eventually that just became exhausting.
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And I watched a movie every day and wrote about it. And then, when I found that all of my career heat was totally gone by the time I came back from chemo, I was frustrated, and I started to blog.Īt first, it was an underrated movies blog where I watched a movie every day, this was in the heat of blogging back in 2010, I guess. Then I got cancer and lost a year of my life to that. When I got out, I got a big-time manager and got a lot of Hollywood meetings, and sold some screenplays, which they never paid me for. Matt: I spent a fortune at Columbia, and then it looked like I was going to make a big. I talk about in my first book, how it was basically a fantasy camp, and you weren't allowed to criticize anybody for anything they had done, well, not even criticize people that sounds bad, but, if were to ever go, you may have to reconceive this then they were like, nobody should ever reconceive anything, you should achieve your vision. I focused on screenwriting, got frustrated with the program in various ways. Very quickly, I realized that I was more of a screenwriter than a director. I went to Columbia Film School in New York and decided to focus. Then I decided to go ahead and go to film school. I wrote and directed many, I would call them indie films, but what is below indie film, DIY, no money changing hands in any way, shape, or form movies. Tell us a bit more about you and how you got into writing. His latest book is The Secrets of Character: Writing a Hero Anyone Will Love.
Joanna: Matt Bird is an author, screenwriter, podcaster, and blogger.
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