About Jonathan
Just moved to the big bad city of Los Angeles and am going to try my hand at being awesome. In the meantime, I'll write screenplays, specs, novels and work on my webcomic that I've been trudging through for a bajillion years. There's a slight chance I listen to way awesome music and that you don't. I'm also a contrarian and I get strong urges to hate on things a majority of people love. Still with me? Good.
Jonathan On Stuff
Alice Archive
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Outlining Is Useful After All
Posted on March 30, 2010 | View CommentsThey teach you in film school that outlining your films is an important step in the screenwriting process. Oftentimes, students ignore this lesson and just wing it, letting the characters do what they “were meant to do.” This was the method I applied to writing... -
On Tim Burton’s Alice
Posted on January 5, 2010 | View CommentsI love the Alice in Wonderland story. In fact, I read the book a few times in high school, watched the old movie, played the hell out of American McGee’s Alice and often thought about how I’d take a stab at the story if I...