Monday, November 26, 2007

We're breaking story today on a rewrite. It's a horror feature, so I'm restructuring it as 7 acts, complete with act outs. Time for the white board.

So in that spirit, here's a household tip. How do you get old dry-erase marks off your white board?

For a few marks, you can always write over it with fresh dry-erase marker, and then erase that. The solvent in the marker is exactly the solvent for the dry markings.

But what about an entire board?

Toothpaste.

A little bit of toothpaste on a rag will nicely remove old dry-erase from a whiteboard, it turns out. Toothpaste contains a very mild abrasive that leaves your whiteboard minty fresh!

Now where's my fifth act out...

Labels: act structure, craft, technology

9:39 AM

4 Comments:

"It's a horror feature, so I'm restructuring it as 7 acts, complete with act outs."

TV movie?

The SciFi channel stuff is 7 acts.

By  Cunningham, at 12:49 PM  

It's not a TV movie, but it'll be about 100 pages, so 7 acts seems about right. I'm pretty sure THE INCREDIBLES was 7 acts.

By  Alex Epstein, at 12:53 PM  

Toothpaste, eh? I will try that.

By  Emily Blake, at 2:00 PM  

Medieval?

By  Webs, at 12:49 PM  

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