{"id":2753,"date":"2019-02-19T10:55:36","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/02\/no-seminar-at-all\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T10:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T15:55:36","slug":"no-seminar-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2019\/02\/no-seminar-at-all\/","title":{"rendered":"No Seminar At All"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Koppelman, showrunner for the TV series &quot;Billions&quot;, has thought a lot, and written a lot, about the creative process, providing a fascinating behind-the-scenes peek at how it&#39;s done.&#0160; He&#39;s refreshingly candid and shuns dogma at every opportunity which endeared him to me, a self-taught photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#39;s a bit of advice from a blog post of his about screenwriting:<\/p>\n<p><em>But for someone who wants to be an artist, a creator, an architect of an original vision, the best book to read on screenwriting is no book on screenwriting. The best seminar, no seminar at all.&#0160;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/briankoppelman.com\/2013\/12\/31\/con-men-gurus-and-the-screenwriting-instruction-industrial-complex\/\">via<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad39dc526200c-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P_0228\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad39dc526200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b022ad39dc526200c-500wi.jpg\" title=\"P_0228\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Koppelman, showrunner for the TV series &quot;Billions&quot;, has thought a lot, and written a lot, about the creative process, providing a fascinating behind-the-scenes peek at how it&#39;s done.&#0160; He&#39;s refreshingly candid and shuns dogma at every opportunity which endeared him to me, a self-taught photographer. Here&#39;s a bit of advice from a blog post [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}