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
Screenwriting Archive
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On A New City, and Stuff
Posted on August 30, 2010 | View CommentsI suppose I should make some kind of post about life as I know it right now. Decided that I was done with Chicago and moved my ass all the way over to the west coast to live out a life of fame and fortune.... -
Eleven Day Steampunk
Posted on April 13, 2010 | View CommentsApril 1st came around and two things happened: I completely forgot that it was April Fools Day and I began the screenwriting boot camp known as Script Frenzy. If you’ll recall, I wrote earlier about my plans to write two scripts to make up for... -
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... -
A Most Ambitious Frenzy
Posted on March 28, 2010 | View CommentsLast year I failed Script Frenzy. I had a good idea, but I just didn’t have the commitment to the event that I needed to see the project through. From a writing perspective, I had gotten too mired in plot and “revise-as-you-go,” a screenwriter’s worst... -
Outlines Suck, But Are Awesome
Posted on May 13, 2009 | View CommentsA problem I come across when screenwriting is the logistics of the plot. I have no problems placing two characters in a room and making them say cool things, but when it comes down to where things eventually end up, it becomes a different matter... -
Writing and Re-Writing
Posted on April 7, 2009 | View CommentsOne of the frustrating things about my process is the part where I go back and change a bunch of shit and essentially rewrite my script from page one. It’s not like I actually want to do this, especially considering I have to get 100... -
Going Into a Script Frenzy
Posted on March 25, 2009 | View CommentsFor a writer, one of the biggest challenges is actually sitting down and facing off against the blank page, or screen if you’ve ditched your typewriter for a trendier, more electronic word processing unit! When I sit down to start writing, I find myself daunted... -
Rambling About Screenwriting Books
Posted on January 7, 2009 | View CommentsThought I would try out my new account with Viddler by ranting about a screenwriting book that I hate and one that I love. Kind of threw it together fast so it ain’t “all that” nor is it the definitive source on what you should... -
Back in Chicago
Posted on December 28, 2008 | View CommentsI arrived at the Greyhound station in Chicago at around 1:00am, just like the ticket said. I exited the bus as fast as I could and waited eagerly for the luggage man to come by and hand me my bag so I could get the... -
A Thought On Method
Posted on November 21, 2008 | View CommentsAs a writer for any medium, you often get asked (or are made to ask yourself), “What’s your method?” Some people respond with a very complex list of how they get into the mood to write and then how they go about building their magnum...