Donald L. Vasicek

ANATOMY OF AN IRRESISTIBLE QUERY LETTER

by Donald L. Vasicek (credits: Warriors of Virtue, The Crown, award-winning The Sand Creek Massacre, Faces)
The query letter is a marketing tool that can get your script read and you recognized in the highly competitive world of Hollywood. Condensing your 100-plus page script down to a one-page letter exhibits your […]

“The Zen of Seduction”
by
Donald L. Vasicek
Writer/Filmmaker/Consultant
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
“Come, come closer to me.
I want to smell your hair.”
Her eyes blinked challenge.
“Here, let me…”
I reached for her sharp-bridged nose.
Just as I posied my finger, to slide it
down her face just west of her nose…
“…No, no…”
I passed my finger gently down
the west side of her face. Ever
so gently.
“Marble smoothness, tight, […]

Til Death Do Us Part
by Don Vasicek
Vermillion Capulet’s hit with a hammer eyes jerked. The pain, evident in the crimson edges and disbelief, catapulted as she bungled the ring in her hand. The metallic noise struck the dead cement floor. It cracked the noiselessness like a car horn blown in […]

To write a box office hit screenplay, you
should do some research first before you
decide to write a screenplay. Passion for
your subject matter plays an integral role
in the writing of your screenplay, but
common sense dictates that you put certain
elements in your screenplay if you want to
sell and get your screenplay produced.
Otherwise, it will be an […]

A shooting script, written from the
spec script by a screenwriter with
the director, puts everything in the
screenplay that needs to be there
for shooting. Therefore, the lines
spoken in a foreign language are
written out in its native language
for the actors.
The first time a character in your
spec script speaks in a foreign
language, simply put under the
character’s name in […]