Hee Haw and Merry Christmas from Dan Calvisi!

Dear writers and readers,

Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!

I hope that this coming year will be your greatest, and I wish you unlimited creativity and inspiration as you pour your passion on to the proverbial page.

Thank you for supporting me and Story Maps and congratulations on your writing achievements thus far, big and small. I know that it’s not easy to take on the risk and the workload of writing a screenplay and I applaud your efforts. I hope you feel good about just doing it and I hope you enjoy the process as well as the goal.

Looking ahead, I still have a few slots open in our upcoming online Group Master Class which begins on January 14, 2014. I’d love to have you in the class, so contact me asap if you think you might be interested. (Fyi this is a feature screenwriting class, not TV, but contact me if you’re interested in instruction in writing a TV pilot.)

For those on my newsletter list, I know I’ve been doing a lot of self-promotion lately of my various events and offerings, so I thank you for putting up with me and I promise I’ll get you more story analysis content very soon!

Thank you to all of my students, clients, friends and family for a great 2013.

Here’s to a great 2014!

Good luck and happy writing,

Dan

Jimmy Smits Interview (Sons of Anarchy, NYPD Blue, Dexter)

 

You’d be hard-pressed to find an actor with such an impressive television resume as Jimmy Smits. L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, The West Wing, Dexter and, now, for the past two seasons, FX’s hit drama Sons of Anarchy, created by showrunner Kurt Sutter. (I’m also still mourning the loss of Smits’ unfortunately canceled drama Cane from 2007.) Read more