JR Burningham

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Name: JR Burningham
Date registered: September 11, 2010
URL: http://www.mythmakersent.com

Latest posts

  1. Don’t Make Your Characters Dumber Than Your Audience — October 9, 2010
  2. Pitch Anecdote #1 – Film Angels, San Francisco — October 7, 2010
  3. The Double-Edged Sword of New Ideas — October 2, 2010
  4. The Start Of Something That Should Have Started 18 Months Ago — September 10, 2010

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Oct 09

Don’t Make Your Characters Dumber Than Your Audience

There should be a universal list of no-no’s that every writer (and editor) should be forced to go through when they have completed their work.  Amongst them, in fact maybe even atop this whole list, is that your main character should never become dumber than your audience.  Here’s what I mean: I’m in the last 150 …

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Oct 07

Pitch Anecdote #1 – Film Angels, San Francisco

Fail early.  Fail often.  Experience is worth more than anything, and failure can be even more valuable than success. When we were just getting started, we were searching for anyone living and breathing to pitch our project to.  We got recommended by a friend to this group:  Film Angels They say that they’re “The world’s …

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Oct 02

The Double-Edged Sword of New Ideas

It’s funny how new ideas arrive.  I don’t get them a lot.  Maybe a couple of really good ideas every year, but definitely not more than that.  As a writer, though, we always have to be in search for those new ideas, and willing to open our minds to and chase nearly every idea that …

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Sep 10

The Start Of Something That Should Have Started 18 Months Ago

Unfortunately, we are starting this blog about a year and half late.  Oh I’m sure there is a stack of ridiculous experiences ahead of us that will be great fun to read, but there are plenty that I wish we’d have catalogued before now.  But since we have to start somewhere, I will begin by …

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