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Diving Into The Three Wells at Tea & Ink Writing Club

November 22, 2018 by Deb

I was requested to mentor again at the Tea & Ink Writing Club and happily agreed. To do something a little different, this time I brought Matthew Kalil’s book “The Three Wells of Screenwriting” (a wonderful new MWP book on my bookshelf). It’s a book to get the inspiration juices flowing. From the book, I […]

Filed Under: Books on Deb's Shelf, INK, Inspiration Tagged With: MWP, scriptwriting, story ideas, writing process

DIY Summer Camp: Write! Shoot! Edit!

May 27, 2017 by Deb

Wow, there are a lot of fabulous summer camps out there: Knight camps, space camps, sailing camps, horse riding camps, and on and on… and of course camping camps. But you can’t attend camp every week of the summer, and at some point you age out of some of them too. So… what about a […]

Filed Under: FILM, INK, Life, Skills Development Tagged With: MWP, student films, summer camp, writeshootedit

Film Gifts Can Last A Lifetime

November 14, 2013 by Deb 1 Comment

Christmas decorations are filling stores and websites. Catalogues of all types are arriving for perusing both typical and unusual gift ideas. How fun to see what’s been invented or written this year! The season of giving approaches. When it comes to the gifts we give, we want them to be both thoughtful and meaningful. Though […]

Filed Under: About Deb Patz, Management, Skills Development Tagged With: career planning, christmas, MWP, pm101

Gifting Film Books… The FB Preparation

November 16, 2012 by Deb Leave a Comment

Books for Christmas…they’re great to give and to receive, don’t you think? Film books especially! Well, in that case… have you “liked” MWP books on Facebook yet? I just found out that this season my publisher is going to be having special holiday discounts and daily specials – but only for those who have already […]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: christmas, MWP, pm101

Teaching “The Biz”

July 27, 2012 by Deb Leave a Comment

We say “the biz” or “the business” when we mean to say “the film industry” or “show business”. Funny how we shorten it to refer only the “business” portion instead of the “film” or “show” portion when we are so proud that it’s a creative industry! Just goes to show you how important business activities […]

Filed Under: About Deb Patz, Management Tagged With: film education, MWP, pm101

The Future of Story – Chicago (8-Aug-12)

July 21, 2012 by Deb 2 Comments

I have a production jacket from a sci-fi I worked on that declares: “The Future Is“… but the jacket never identified what the future was! Although I guess it means that the future is here and now. Well, in Chicago on August 8, I’m on a panel for the conference “The Future of Story – […]

Filed Under: About Deb Patz, Management Tagged With: future of story, MWP, pm101

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