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THE WIND RAIDER - BK ONE is just the beginning... 

An Excerpt from the Latest Post by "Professional Screenwriter" Author Richard Finney 

The entertainment Industry has a sorry past of taking the hip catch-phrase/ memorable gesture in produced movies and recycling the moment as a weapon to use against someone who has hit an Entertainment Career Detour. 

“Hasta la vista, baby” was the Valedico du jour after “Terminator 2” became a hit movie in the 90s.

And two decades before, the classic Industry send off for failure was the full face kiss Michael Corleone gives his brother Fredo in “GodfatherII."  

For the purpose of giving back to the industry, I’ve collected some commonly used phrases used today in Hollywood so the younger generation coming up through the ranks will better understand that there are often times in this Industry when “Hello” actually means “Goodbye” --

“Who are you… and how did you get on the lot?”

“Thank you for your submission. Your script was covered by one of our best Interns...”

“I had my agent call your agent. It turns out you don’t have an agent… or a manager. But we have a bigger problem -- you also don’t have a lawyer. So right now, my lawyer is just sitting in his office… not sure who he should call…”

“I’m sure you’re really important, but I still need to see your badge”

“Go ahead and use that phone to try and contact your agent. Let’s find out together if he answers your call.”

“My assistant read to me the evaluation on your script this morning. Brace yourself because what I heard from her was not good news...”

“I heard someone here really liked your script, but unfortunately we're no longer accepting any script submissions outside the 310 area code.”

“I saw your movie at the premiere party. But that was a long time ago. At least nine months, right? Have you ever tasted champagne from a bottle opened nine months ago? There’s no bubbles rising to the top. Just the taste of sour grapes.”

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WHY SCREENWRITERS ARE NOT AN ENDANGERED SPECIES...

I think there’s some valuable advice in Jacob Stuart’s original post. 

Unfortunately, there’s also a lot of problems. 

A big problem is the apocalyptic-like title he employs for his post. 

On the one level he probably intended, he has succeeded -- people have made comments. And I'm now posting my reaction to a blog that lured me in with a provocative title.

Unfortunately, after digesting the content of his post, there is no level the title of his post truthfully resonates except as an exploitative tease.

A Documentary Series and  a Movie
Both focused on the Same Man
Both Shot by the Same filmmakers
One made history, and the other sucked

What is the one thing in Everyday Life often missing in badly written Screenplays? The answer is Conflict.”

Why Screenwriters should think about ‘Shelf Life’ when Writing

Why it should not be the End of the Three Act Structure

How speaking The Language of ‘Film Truth’ could make or break your Film career.

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Book One

The First Book has been completely 

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RANDOM EVENTS… 

A tragic train collision in America kills hundreds of innocent people.

A series of grisly and ritualistic murders baffle authorities in Europe.

A natural disaster in the Middle East annihilates thousands.

A global rise of accidents trigger Near Death Experiences in the victims.

...OR A CONSPIRACY TO DESTROY HUMANITY?

THE WORLD IS BLEEDING OUT!
Vampires have taken over...
Those who survived the War
Are in Concentration Camps...
All over the World. 
Matt Haynes and Tyra Redmond 
Are prisoners at CCC197 
Kept alive only for their BLOOD 
Escape is their only hope... 
If they are to lead the LIVING back from the brink of Extinction.



For the last decade BLACK MARIAH 
has been a savior for humankind.
The alien possesses incredible POWERS and is INVINCIBLE!
At least this is what the world has come to believe.

The truth: the alien is not invincible.
11 HUMAN VOLUNTEERS 
have been turned into -- 
BLACK MARIAH
When the alien creature dies…
Another human is recruited.
Jeri Asher is the best at her job... 
Recruiting human volunteers  
To become the next... Black Mariah. But Jeri now has grave doubts...
About hiding a secret -- The truth behind the sacrifice
So the WORLD can be Saved

He was an outlier… 
An outcast from those who survived. 
His purpose in life was Revenge. 
And yet, Tristan Moir became known as...
The Wind Raider
When you control the wind… 
You control the fate of Humanity.

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SHADOWS IN THE LIGHT 

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"DRAWING BLOOD" is on the AMAZON e-Book Best Sellers list!

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And you can get the kindle e-book for FREE! 

After Oct. 31^st, only the audio book of Demon Days on audible will be available. We’ll also be discontinuing the Demon Days print book as well. 

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EXCERPT from the NEXT BOOK in the BLACK MARIAH SERIES!!!!

“So this is the guy?”

The muted illumination in the containment suite was supposed to have a calming effect on the prime asset after he returned from a mission. But as Black Mariah stood inches away from the Plexiglas barrier, staring ominously at Rick McNeill, it was apparent the lighting design had failed to achieve the desired results.

“This is who you want to bring in to replace me?” 

The audio system between the containment suite and the viewing lounge had a way of turning Black Mariah’s voice into something tinny and distant. And rather than the flaw in the acoustics rendering the creature less intimidating, it made the cadence in his speech even more ominous sounding to the four people standing on the other side of the Plexiglas. 

“Are you serious? Tell me you aren’t serious…” 

Dr. Ann Wolcott, the prime asset’s psych handler, tapped a button on a control panel embedded in the wall, allowing the prime asset to hear their response from the viewing lounge. 

“I’m completely shocked to hear your words, Quen. I’ll accept the blame for getting it wrong, but we’re all here because I agreed to the meeting. And I only agreed to this meeting because you agreed. Did I get what we discussed wrong?” 

She waited, but the prime asset behaved as if he did not hear a word his handler had spoken. “What about it, Quen, did I get it wrong?”

Black Mariah still didn’t respond as he continued to glare at Rick McNeill.

Wolcott moved away from the control panel and planted herself in front of the candidate to become the next Black Mariah.

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the story 

While on vacation...

Sandy Travis and her fiance Tom are in a helicopter accident. 

The crash causes Tom to have an Near-Death Experience.

Tom is revived by Sandy.

Afterwards, he tells her about seeing...

An Angel of Light... who sent him back...

So he could achieve more among the living.

But Tom is wrong about what he saw during his N.D.E.

Horribly wrong.

Tom's N.D.E. plunges Sandy into a dangerous race...

Against malevolent forces who want to trigger Armageddon. 

She must save Tom from dark forces controlling his life. 

Follow a bloody trail of coded secrets...

And targeted assassinations. 

Sandy's plight will pit her against an otherworldly cabal...

Using the process of N.D.E. to usher in.... 

The DEMON DAYS.

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"16 Secrets" is an amazon.com Bestseller!!!!

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Here are a few of the CHAPTER TITLES in the book along with some excerpts from each chapter --  

Keeping the audience on edge, but not in the dark

Movie audiences love novelty.

They also enjoy seeing the same thing in a different way.

And audiences love to see the same thing, literally, which is why people will watch a TV show or film over and over again. It gives them comfort in a real world that is often unpredictable and always changing.

The goal of a screenwriter is to come up with screenplays for movies that will service at least one of the desires mentioned above, but not necessarily all of them, even if it were possible to plan such a thing in advance.

Knowing when to play something different and when to deliver the same thing in a new and (hopefully) better way is just one of the creative goals of a screenwriter if he writes for a commercial audience.

The professional writer who is quoted at the head of this chapter enjoyed career success because he understood the expectations of a modern movie audience. Of course, there are other factors that lead to a successful screenplay, but being concerned about how modern audiences will perceive the execution of your script is certainly one of the major things you should consider while writing your screenplay.

Audiences are changing, and their expectations of being entertained… and enlightened by a movie are changing as well.

One of the most profound changes in constructing a screen story is the way a screenwriter is expected to please a modern audience regarding the brevity and pace of the first act. Writing for a modern audience requires screenwriters to construct their first act with fewer steps and deeper footprints. 

The Unbearable NG-Force of Being

Maintaining this mystery throughout the plot and keeping viewers’ tension level high is hopefully what every screenwriter achieves throughout their “A” storyline. But often times, the Professional Screenwriter will include a “B” storyline that can have its origins before the “A” storyline begins, but then runs a parallel course as the screenplay’s plot unfolds.

We spent the previous chapter analyzing the first act in the screenplay Michael Clayton, and one of the points I mentioned is that the first act turns out to be a “Flash Forward” in the storyline.

The choice to reveal story points in the first act which will reappear later in the narrative is done for a specific reason – NG-Force. The fact that the filmmaker of Michael Clayton opted to have his entire first act showcase events that actually occur (in the linear version of the story) in the second act demonstrates the storytelling power of the NG-Force. In the case of Michael Clayton, audiences engaged with the first act are compelled to discover the reason the main character was targeted for death and are riveted as the rest of the story unfolds.  

  

Beware of the Undertow

I’ll begin demonstrating the possibilities of Undertow by drawing upon the best of recent film franchises, The Lord of the Rings trilogy (“LRT”), one of the greatest achievements in modern filmmaking (screenwriters Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens, based on the novels by J.R.R. Tolkien). 

There are many characters featured in the trilogy narrative who have been deepened with the Undertow, but for our discussion, I will select Frodo Baggins. I believe the most important wave that rushes to the beach with Frodo from the very beginning of the first film’s screenplay is… fear… fear… fear.

Fear of change.

Fear of losing his friends.

Fear of disappointing people he looks up to…

Frodo is a hobbit and the threat of losing this way of life would be the Undertow running across his large feet as he accepts the adventure’s challenge. 

  

The Small Screen has become the Big Screen

This obvious difference between film and TV could be summed up as “canvas size,” a reference to the amount of space upon which an artist is allowed to express his vision.

Most theatrical movies push the screenwriter to tell a story on a canvas that is 90 - 110 minutes in length.

The burden of this type of small canvas is that so much has to be accomplished. In the first act alone, the screenwriter must introduce the main characters… the story… the plot and do all this while simultaneously laying the pipe for the rest of the narrative that is to come in the next two acts. And of course, all this must be done in a way that excites and emotionally engages the audience, so they will keep watching. 

  

Keep your friends and enemies close, but your Director closer

If things are going well, the way a director thinks should at times be different than the thought process of a screenwriter. I respect filmmakers who have done both, who often times commit to working on a project only as a screenwriter, waiting to commit their services as a director until they’ve had a chance to remove themselves mentally from the first creative process. Writing and shooting a screenplay are two different things, and should be treated as such, even when they are being handled by one filmmaker. 

  

The Magic of 3hree to shape Scenes and Structure in your Script

With this chapter, I’m trying to convey a writing formula that might help screenwriters outline the plot of a potential project. This theory emerged from an idea that people can’t help but subconsciously think of daily life in “threes.” For instance, we often break down any day into three sections – morning, afternoon, and night.

But that’s not the only instance. Our heads break down a lot of other aspects of our lives into threes. When we walk across a plaza crowded with people, whether we realize it or not, there’s something in our minds that is probably separating the people around us into three groups – child, adult, and old age.

The human mind loves to compartmentalize what it encounters because it can mentally organize it, bringing order to what we experience with the goal of controlling it. 

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TERRY

July 16, 2013

First of all, this author knows how to write. Each novel he creates is an adventure in itself, whether part of a series or not. Each one features different worlds, unique, interesting characters, and exciting locales. "Black Mariah - A Calling", the first book in his latest series is no exception.

Whether it’s an alien artifact located in a Brazilian jungle, a South Carolina Red Wolf Preserve, a cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean, or a secretive government operative center in Washington D.C., there are plenty of plot lines to keep the reader's interest, no matter the preferred genre. 

This novel crosses genre lines with elements of Sci-fi, action, suspense, drama, mystery, even a little humor. Add to the mix a humanoid/reptilian alien creature who is able to mysteriously appear and disappear from one location to another, intervening in situations to help humanity like some sort of scaly superman. This leads us to the pivotal question in this book: Who is Black Mariah? Certainly not an invincible superman, for it has died before, more than once to be exact. In fact, there have been 11 different Black Mariahs… 

One of things I love most about the way this author writes, is that the written word plays out in your head as if you were watching a movie. A 3D, in your face, IMAX experience type of movie. Take a smooth as satin plot, add action and suspense, stir in a wide variety of captivating, believable characters and you have “Black Mariah A Calling”. Make no mistake about it, even though the story runs as smoothly it does, the reader is not spoon fed; there is plenty of room for the imagination to work. The author has skillfully laid out the framework in this novel for future books in the series. The characters may not have been fleshed out quite to the extent which some readers like, but there were plenty of attributes and more than enough humanity applied to allow the reader to connect.

(Since this is the first book in the series, I’m sure from having read other works by this author, that in the remaining books our questions will be answered, with more revealed about the characters we love, hate, and want to know more about). 

So I leave you with the question, "Who is Black Mariah?". This is where you, the reader, are a major participant...recruited into the mission to discover who or what exactly Black Mariah is. 

It's a loaded question, and I'm not telling. You'll just have to read it yourself. 

THE WIND RAIDER... SWEPT INTO THE PUBLISHING WORLD!

This Book Series is about…

HOW THE WIND HAS BLOWN THE FATE OF HUMANKIND 
IN THE DIRECTION OF...
 EXTINCTION

If humanity is to be saved... 

There is only one man who can do it... 

THE WIND RAIDER