Dream Big Stories
Last updated on October 31st, 2023 at 05:47 pmDreams of seeing your screenplay produced can be a powerful motivator for any aspiring screenwriter. To learn more about the nuances of storytelling on screen, it’s worth taking a closer look at films like Eat Pray Love and analyzing them from a screenwriter’s perspective. Have you seen the movie? Did you enjoy…
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Last updated on February 25th, 2023 at 11:06 pmWhen my friend, Reggie, gave me a copy of the book Eat, Pray, Love, I was thirty-five years old, going through a painful divorce, terrified, depressed, and thinking that what I really wanted was to travel the world… Just like Elizabeth Gilbert. Oh, my God, I thought. This is my life! Elizabeth…
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Last updated on December 29th, 2011 at 11:33 am There is a quote in my journal I like to read when I’m not in the mood to work on my dream, it says, “Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.” The quote is by Deborah Norville, two-time Emmy winning American…
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Last updated on March 30th, 2012 at 12:38 am My dream is to be a rapper, so what kind of rapper am I? I love old-school rap, but I must say I also love the people, like myself, who take a stab at rap without worrying about being cool. The true essence of old school was light-hearted fare, easy to…
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Last updated on June 10th, 2012 at 08:31 pmWhen I think about my dream of writing a story about toxic mothers and their daughters, I wonder how many conversations the daughters have had with their family; how many books they’ve read; how many movies they’ve watched hoping for a few moments of enlightenment when it comes to dealing with their…
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Last updated on July 3rd, 2022 at 01:17 pmThis week, you may have noticed that we big dream groupies on 8WD have been commenting about Eat, Pray, Love since its readers are our demographic: Women who want to change their lives. Naturally, being a woman also in this particular demographic, I had to stop and ask myself: can living a funny…
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