Now that the summer’s come and gone, I've gotten back to my own writing. Namely, the one script that has plagued me for years: Ciao. Ciao is more than a story. It’s a tribute to a family friend who had a great influence on my development and love of movies. I only have a smattering of memories to work with, the rest is letters and papers he wrote when he was alive.
Reading my current draft, something dawned on me: my script sucked. It was thin and fake. There was no substance to my characters, and they were talking heads in a 2-d world.
As Willum Dafoe said in Spiderman. “Back to formula.” That’s where Blake Snyder comes in.
