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  • 16 February 2020
  • Christy Lavalais
The Craft

Introducing Retribution

It's about time to reveal the title of my upcoming fantasy suspense film.  It's called Retribution, a film about a young woman who uses...

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  • 3 February 2020
  • Christy Lavalais
The Craft

Ciante J. Artistry

We are in the second month of 2020 and it's time to feature another member of our crew.  This time it is our Make-up artist who worked with...

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  • 9 December 2019
  • Christy Lavalais
The Craft

Picture Perfect

To continue with this series of blogs highlighting my crew members as they come aboard, I next want to talk about my Director of Photography...

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  • 2 December 2019
  • Christy Lavalais
The Craft

New Project for the New Year!

In my last post I mentioned that I was working on a feature film script that I would be directing next year.  It is a fantasy suspense film,...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 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...

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  • 7 July 2015
  • Christy Lavalais
The Craft

Kurt Vonnegut’s Eight Rules for Writing Fiction

Recently I came across Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing fiction.  Every awful novel I have ever read has broken one or more of these...

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