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Film Courage: How do you start writing a story? What’s your process?
Adam William Ward, Filmmaker/Actor: I start writing in my head before I ever put it on paper. You get ideas. I usually have so many ideas for movies in my phone. [It] just usually comes with a regular concept, this has never been done or that’s never been done. I think of about That story needs to be told.
I think that’s what movies are, you’re inspired to tell a story from somebody’s point of view that’s never been seen before. That’s a lot of movies.
I go more on the entertainment side of things, that story should be told but it’s a sci-fior whatever because I feel like people would be entertained by it.
Different things motivate different people. I think it starts in my head, the writing process.
A lot of people have writer’s block and I think that’s because they think about writing instead of writing. I think once you know what the feeling needs to be, what the story is, you should outline. You should have an idea of what the scenes are to create the whole story, how many scenes and all that stuff. Then go in and start writing, and when I say go in and start writing, you just gotta sit down and you have to start typing. What you write might not be good. You can always rewrite it but it’s the anxiety, people mostly don’t write because they have anxiety about writing, they won’t want to sit down…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
MORE VIDEOS WITH ADAM WILLIAM WARD
WATCH ‘BAD ADVICE’
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WATCH ‘WALLY GOT WASTED’
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About:
Adam is a Jewish-American born in Abington, Pennsylvania who grew up in Bucks County, PA. At age twelve his family relocated to Roseburg, Oregon; a new and unfamiliar small town. As the middle child of three, Adam realized he had to stand out to gain any measure of attention, if he wanted his rightful place at the dinner table. His antics started purely as a way to amuse his family, but quickly blossomed into a desire to entertain a bigger audience. This desire, however, was abated by a nearly crippling case of stage fright that lasted until he joined his high school’s drama program as a teenager. Through his teacher and classmates’ encouragement, Adam gradually let go and confronted his fear. It seemed to work. After receiving much local acclaim in his first year on stage, his high school named the A-Ward Award after him and it is still given annually to the most outstanding newcomer. It was because of this success Ward pursued his love of film as an undergrad at Hawaii Pacific University where he graduated with a Communications Degree. After graduating from college, Ward made his way to Hollywood! During his first day in town, he used his charm to land a position in post production at Dreamworks. From there, he segued to a gig working for Todd Phillips at Warner Brothers. But pursuing a career made him temporarily lose sight of his dream (dream of what?) It wasn’t until Ward bumped into Jimmy Smits at LAX that he was convinced to go back and study acting again. At Smits’ recommendation, he began studying at the Joanne Baron DW School of Acting during which he found time to star in eleven short films. The following year ward was a lead in three independent features. But it wasn’t until the year 2011 Ward, took his destiny in his own hands and wrote, directed and starred in a tv comedy called, “Three Guys and a Couch” (On Amazon Prime). In 2013 wrote Directed and Starred in “Parole Officers” another tv pilot. (On Amazon Prime). Later in 2014 Ward co-wrote a feature film called, “Wally Got Wasted”. [See more of Adam’s bio on IMDB]
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