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INT. J ROLAND KELLY – NIGHT
http://blog.j-roland-kelly.com
The personal screenwriting & songwriting blog of J Roland Kelly meant to discuss his art, living as an expatriate in South America, and independent filmmaking.
Recent Posts
Screenwriting & Filmmaking: My Celebrity Cause; Ralph Baker & Larry Norman; Brian Lilly, Dzenan Ahmetovic, Sean Coutts, Mark Spencer, and Other Phoenix Police Officers Going to Prison; Ending Police Brutality, the Piggy and a Plea for Help
Some things make me so angry I can’t think straight. Police brutality and corruption is one. Today I saw in the news the story of Tony Arambula. Watch this from CNN first. I recommend clicking-on-through to YouTube and reading the full description...
Screenwriting, Storytelling, & Greek Mythology: Read, Recycle, Rape, Repeat & Jesus
There’s this series on the History Channel, called Clash of the Gods, I watch it, it’s quite fair. You can view some of it online here. The DVDs of season 1 go to Netflix in January. I’ve watched every episode so far, and it’s renewed my ...
Screenwriting, Songwriting, & Ramen Profitable Artistic Endeavors: Doing Anything Artistic? This is the future…
There was a term that became popular in the business start-up scene six months ago… “ramen profitable.” I like this term. I know first hand what it means. Basically a business enterprise might find itself in a situation where it does make a pro...
Screenplays & Screenwriting Resources: The Screenwriter’s Bible by David Trottier – Reviewed
I’ve read a few books on screenwriting now, the largest and heaviest of which has been The Screenwriter’s Bible by David Trottier. The book isn’t that long or wordy, so much as the print and the physical pages are large. I guess a b...
Screenwriting & Filmmaking: More about the Oncoming Real 3D Revolution
Last year I wrote about going to see Journey to the Center of the Earth because it was in new Real 3D and I wanted to see what all the talk was about. I then quickly added myself to the bandwagon of people who believed this new 3D was going to chang...
Recommended Things To Do When You Are Staring Down Screenwriter’s Block In Quito, Ecuador: Bike the Ciclopaseo
On the second and last Sunday of every month, Quito closes its main drag (the Avenida Amazonas) to all traffic but bikes. Usually this city is not a bicycle friendly city, the traffic, the mountains, the pollution, etc. but on two days a month everyt...

