Writer

When I’m not taking photos or making videos I’m writing. Usually screenplays or creative briefs for clients. But this year I decided to participate in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). For those who don’t know, NaNoWriMo is a self challenge to write 50,000 words or more, the equivalent of a short novel, within the month [...]

Happy Holidays, everyone! I hope you’re having a great December. Things are busy here at Dannyjive HQ. We’re wrapping presents and doing photo shoots in Chicago. I can’t wait to show a few. Until then, here’s a really cool thing that happened a few weeks back. I was invited to have my “Runner” short script [...]

I can’t believe it has been a month since my last post and with the recent New York earthquake and hurricane, you might be wondering about me. I’m still here. I’ve just been crazy busy with projects. Fortunately, were getting close to showing you some. On Halloween, we’ll be releasing a creepy and fun music [...]

Back on October 10th (wow… two and a half weeks ago, already?!) I taught a writer’s workshop at Digital Bootcamp through Chicago Filmmakers in Action. It was a great turnout, sold out and even a little over capacity. The workshop lasted 8 hours, the first half was instruction on screenplay structure and character development. My [...]

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow I’ll be participating in a screen writing workshop through Chicago Filmmakers in Action. The first five hours will be run by two professors from Columbia College who will explain format etc. Then I and a friend will take the last three hours and run it as a workshop. It’s [...]

Almost forgot to mention this. On October 10th I will be teaching an eight hour intensive screenplay workshop. Cost is $69 and include food. There’s only one slot left so if you want to hang out and learn how to improve your script, jump on board now. Some of the topic we’ll be covering: How [...]

Now that a few projects have come to an end I’m writing again. I’m hard at work on a new feature length script based on the world of mythology. One of my favorite things about writing screenplays is the research and all the new things you learn. A few more screenplays and I can appear [...]

I’m gearing up to write another feature length script set in the Horror genre. With that comes research in the form of watching every horror film I can, good and especially bad, in order to create something “new”. Watching these films, I’ve encountered a few horror film clichés that I’ll have to stay away from. [...]