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Film Courage: Should a new writer or artist begin as a hobbyist?
Donald F. Glut, Writer, Film Director, and Screenwriter: In my case my writing started out as a hobby and when I was in my late teens, fanzines were really popular. These were usually mimeographed magazines that fans of horror films or comic books or science fiction or whatever the subject was would put out. They would be fan written and they would sell for 25 cents or whatever. Now you can find copies of those for hundreds of dollars.
My writing career right before that I started writing for the high school paper, articles for what was called The Scope. From there I saw other people putting out these fanzines and I said well I can do something that good and I did and that got my name out there. Then I made friends with some of the people doing the monster movie magazines and I started writing for one and within one issue I became the editor of that. One thing kind of built on what went before it.
I started out as a fan, like a fan of everything, I made fan movies, played in bands (we basically call them garage bands now) but just fan bands and that’s the way you start out…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Donald F. Glut has been active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966. Don has had a long and varied career. He has been a professional musician, actor, film director, executive producer, photographer, magazine editor, proofreader and (very briefly, for an advertising agency) copywriter, but is mostly known for his long career as a freelance writer. He has written and directed feature-length motion pictures, documentaries and music videos, authored approximately 80 fiction and non-fiction published books, myriad TV scripts (live action and animation shows, network and syndicated), comic-book scripts, short stories, magazine articles, even music and theatre. He has been involved with numerous popular franchises such as Star Wars, The Monkees, Tarzan, Spider-Man, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Vampirella, Masters of the Universe, The Flintstones, Jonny Quest and many others, and created original comic-book characters for Gold Key, Marvel and DC.
Arguably Don is best known for his novelization of the second “Star Wars” movie The Empire Strikes Back (#1 Best Seller). Don currently executive-produces, writes and directs “traditional-style” horror for his company Pecosborn Productions, and writes scripts for The Creeps horror comics magazine. Also, he is a Southern California representative of Las Vegas Talent Agency. Note: Any motion picture titles that may be listed prior to Dinosaur Valley Girls (1997) are of amateur movies, the first of 41 of which Don Glut made when he was nine years old.
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