The Art of Storytelling

A Website for Auteurs

  • Home
  • About
  • Reel
  • Writing
  • Directing
  • Sci-fi/Fantasy
  • Fan Fiction
  • Contact Us
Home > writing

Tag: writing

  • 4 December 2018
  • Christy Lavalais
Writing

My Experience Writing for TV and Film

It’s been a while since I’ve updated here, but I’ve been keeping busy. Finishing up my short film Seven, promoting my fantasy novel The...

Read More
  • 5 April 2018
  • Christy Lavalais
The Craft

Outlining Your Script Workshop

For years, people have come up to me and said, ‘I have an idea for a movie for you!’ What they don’t know is that I have a back log of...

Read More
  • 28 November 2017
  • Christy Lavalais
Script Breakdown

How Spiderman Helped Me Revise My Script

Recently I pulled out an action script I wrote three years ago. After I finished it, I never picked it up again. I loved the concept of the...

Read More
  • 14 October 2017
  • Christy Lavalais
Film Life

Just the Beginning…

A few years ago I decided that I wanted to focus on writing and directing science fiction, fantasy and action. Before then I would write...

Read More
  • 4 January 2017
  • Christy Lavalais
The Craft

How My Story Wrote Itself

Last week I talked about how I started writing the second book of the series while the first is being edited. It's been an interesting...

Read More
  • 27 January 2016
  • Christy Lavalais
The Craft

The benefits of joining a Writer’s Group

When I was in film school, it never occurred to me to study anything else but film.  I took a creative writing course by chance, but other...

Read More
  • 26 January 2016
  • Christy Lavalais
Inspiration

Music is My Best Muse

I like to listen to music when I'm writing.  Whenever I start a new project I make a playlist of songs to listen to while I write.  I even...

Read More
  • 11 January 2016
  • Christy Lavalais
Great moments in Storytelling

I’m a storyteller, of course I know when I’m in one

Last night I was re-watching the Sherlock Holmes special where it was set in Victorian England instead of modern day.  Towards the end,...

Read More
  • 6 January 2016
  • Christy Lavalais
The Craft

The Evolution of my Early Writing Habits

I have always been a writer.  Though my desire to write stays the same, my method of writing has changed.  My first complete story was The...

Read More
  • 15 July 2015
  • Christy Lavalais
The Craft

Screenplays vs Novels

I decided I wanted to be a writer at a young age.  I started reading and just new that's something I had to do.  I wrote children's books...

Read More

Categories

  • Fiction
  • Film Life
  • Filmmaking Tips
  • Great moments in Storytelling
  • Great Villians
  • Inspiration
  • Magic and Story
  • Science and Story
  • Script Breakdown
  • The Craft
  • Uncategorized
  • Writing

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Recent Posts

  • Seven Short Film

  • Seven Short Film Online Premiere

  • It’s a Party!

Copyright 2017 Lavallais Pictures