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Episode 28 with Andrew David Barker – author and film-maker
“When you finish something, it gives you the fire to do more.”
Episode 28 – Andrew David Barker – Show Notes
- Pantser for fiction, Plotter for screenplays
- Fueled by independent US film makers; Duplass Brothers and Joe Swanberg
- Writing about 80s kids and movies as backdrops. Harking back to period which personally inspired the creative life
- Wayward journey into writing; leaving school with reading and writing difficulties, self education
- Finish everything
- Playing with Point of View
- Stephen King, Spielberg, Scorsese, Paul Auster, Cormac McCarthy, Bret Easton Ellis
- Screen adaption of own novel – screenplays are all story, everything has to drive the story forward
- Screen writing teaches a minimal and clean approach to prose
- Renaissance of the novella
- Making short films
“I’m a creative cannibal.”
“I use movies like John Grisham uses lawyers.”
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