"Persona" Character Development Software

I just ordered "Persona" Character Development Software from the Writers Store....

http://www.writersstore.com/persona-character-development-software/

Hopefully, it will help me in developing the characters in my screenplay.

2013 Black Mountain Ranch Film Festival

I've just begun the annual Black Mountain Ranch (of California) Film Festival, this for 2013......my favorite films of 2012 (all received 5 out of 5 stars from me). I organize them as the winner (Silver Linings Playbook) followed by the others in no particular order.

1. Silver Linings Playbook
2. Zero Dark Thirty
3. The Giant Mechanical Man*
4. Ruby Sparks
5. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World
6. Your Sister's Sister
7. Detachment*
8. Bernie*
9. Big Miracle
10. The Words

* These films can be watched on Netflix "Watch Instantly."

My Favorite Films, Updated, etc.

It's been awhile since I updated this blog.....so, a few things......my screenplay, I do think I'll stay with the title I gave it, at least for awhile, as stories do kind of take their own direction as I continue my re-writing and developing it, so my title, "It Happens!" Two people have read it and I am truly thankful to them. I must admit that I know I am not following all the rules a writer should follow, like doing some writing/re-writing of it every day, but I do write something somewhere about something, like here, every day. I WILL NOT be a typical writer....I strive for something different.....a film like none other. Screenwriting has been called the most complex craft in the world and I have found that statement pretty accurate as best I can tell. So, for me, it isn't just the writing, but the thought which goes into it, and I am not limiting my thoughts, especially what guides me with what or how much I actually write each day.

And what is guiding me a lot are the films I watch, and this year's "Silver Linings Playbook" has affected me like few others in 60+ years of being a movie fan. So, since I haven't updated my list of favorite films in awhile, I'll do it now, adding that film high up on my list, plus my favorite film of the year before, "Drive" and of the year before that, "Greenberg," also adding "Knocked Up"......

Favorite Films

1. When Harry Met Sally

      2.  Keeping the Faith

      3.  Keith

      4.  Office Space

      5.  Murphy’s Romance

      6.  Across the Universe

      7. Love with the Proper Stranger

      8. Silver Linings Handbook

      9. The Girl in the Café

    10. The Thing called Love

    11.  Jerry Maguire

    12.  Airplane

    13. Urban Cowboy

    14.  Saturday Night Fever

    15.  Grease

    16.  The Wedding Singer

    17.  Great Expectations (1998)

    18.  Goodbye Columbus

    19.  A Thousand Clowns

    20.  The Ten Commandments

    21.  Sliding Doors

    22.  One Fine Day

    23.  Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

    24.  Crossing Delancy

    25.  The Man with Two Brains

    26.  High Anxiety

    27. Elisabethtown

    28.  Housesitter

    29.  My First Mister

    30.  Splash

    31.  The Graduate

    32.  Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

    33. History of the World, Part 1

    34. Knocked Up

    35. Drive

    36. Greenberg