J.P. Smith's Blog

• Passing Go

  October 9, 2009

  • So a month has nearly passed, and since that time I’ve received and signed a contract to write the script. In fact, I’ve already written a first draft. In a way, this is my second assignment, my first—a much more difficult one—being to adapt my first novel The Man from Marseille as a screenplay; a process that took nearly a year and ended up not being made, of course. Such is the nature ...
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• The Waiting Game

  September 12, 2009

  • I haven’t blogged lately because, frankly, I haven’t had a great deal to say. I notice in reading other people’s blogs elsewhere than on Red Room, that there’s an awful lot of blogging about things such as What I Ate for Breakfast and What Band I like at the Moment. I suppose I could touch upon both, but they each can be summed up in a sentence: Trader Joe Maple Cereal and the quartet put ...
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• The Process of the Process

  August 6, 2009

  • I had no sooner finished my little indie screenplay—written solely for my own amusement, really, and a script I’ll one day offer to small production companies, as it’s one of those quirky little low-budget projects that, if—big if—actually produced, sometimes even does quite well. “The Squid and the Whale," for instance, or “Sideways." Not to mention all the countless ...
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