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		<title>&#8220;Unique Promotion for Authors&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Vasicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A revolutionary approach to writing and getting published.

Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
Writing, Filmmaking, Consulting
http://www.donvasicek.com
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		<title>&#8220;Hollywood Openings&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Vasicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
Writing/Filmmaking/Consulting
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
In order to write, sell, and get your screenplays produced
in Hollywood, you need to write openings that Hollywood
utilizes to attract audiences.  When you watch movies
produced by studios and mainstream production companies
and producers, what do you usually see in the opening?
If you&#8217;re stumped, the first thing you usually see is
movement.
This could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama-Biden; McCain-Palin, The Zen of Writing and Education&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 18:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Vasicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Educational Background:
>
> Barack Obama:
> Columbia University - B.A. Political Science with a Specialization in International Relations.
> Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
>
> Joseph Biden:
> University of Delaware - B.A. in History and B.A. in Political Science.
> Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
>
> vs.
>
> John McCain:
> United States Naval Academy - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Sex Abuse, Screenwriting, and Hollywood&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://donvasicek.com/screenwriting/sex-abuse-screenwriting-and-hollywood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Vasicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films+, LLC
Writing/Filmmaking/Consulting
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
Hi, Leslie,
Thank you for your questions.  You are wise by asking questions before acting on your heart.  
It is practical to get into screenwriting if you are offered a contract that pays Writer&#8217;s Guild of America rates, including, at the least, two rewrites.  And even then, it might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hollywood Networking&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Vasicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by
Donald L. Vasicek (credits: Warriors of Virtue, The Crown, The Sand Creek Massacre, Born to Win, The Lost Heart, Born to Kill)
Olympus Films+, LLC
Writing/Filmmaking/Consulting
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
The first time I raised my game to a higher level in my screenwriting career it scared the shit out of me.
As part of my networking scheme a few years ago, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Writing Sex, Violence and Hooking Your Audience&#8221;</title>
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		<comments>http://donvasicek.com/uncategorized/writing-sex-violence-and-hooking-your-audience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Vasicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by
Donald L. Vasicek
Olympus Films +, LLC
Writing/Filmmaking/Consulting
http://www.donvasicek.com
dvasicek@earthlink.net
You need simply to watch the first ten minutes of &#8220;The Sixth Sense&#8221;
to learn how to get your readers hooked.  A supernatural thriller
that was one of the box office surprises of 1999 primarily because
of its appeal to a large demographic that spanned families to adult
viewers, shows sex and violence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Logline&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://donvasicek.com/screenwriting/the-logline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Vasicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The logline must show what your movie is about. You have about a minimum of five or six words and a maximum of three, five to six word sentences to show it in the logline. The shorter, the better. If you are serious about writing, selling and getting your screenplays produced, then, you must think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Anatomy of an Irresistible Query Letter&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://donvasicek.com/uncategorized/anatomy-of-an-irresistible-query-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Vasicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Zen of Seduction&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Vasicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“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, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Write, Writing, Short Stories, Zen&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Vasicek</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Til Death Do Us Part
by Don Vasicek
     Vermillion Capulet&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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