Melton Cartes

I’ve recently rewritten my latest script BLUNT FORCE and blogged about it at The TrubyPhiles. Check it out.

As I recount there, I recently found and read John Truby’s book, The Anatomy of Story and not only did I love it, I wanted to do a combination “product demo” and book review of it. Years ago I took Truby’s Classic Story Structure as well as Action screenwriting classes and used them to great effect in my subsequent writing. I believe that John Truby’s work is far superior in detail, clarity and flexibility to that of Robert McKee, Syd Field, or any of the other screenwriting gurus out there.

So, I took the occasion of doing my third rewrite of BLUNT FORCE as a way of putting to work what John writes about in his book, chapter by chapter. The TrubyPhiles (http://thetrubyphiles.wordpress.com/) is also intended as a clubhouse where other graduates of Truby’s classes, or folks avidly interested in becoming working writers, can share comments and questions related to the art and science of storytelling.

Please check it out and say hello!

BLUNT FORCE— Action
By Melton Eduardo Cartes
A young woman fights a multinational private security corporation to rescue her kidnapped fiancé, only to realize that instead of an evil conspiracy, she is battling with the results of a life’s worth of psychological trauma.

HOME OF THE BRAVE— Action/Adventure
By Melton Eduardo Cartes
1999 Semifinalist — Nicholl Fellowships
2002 Second Rounder — Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference
Recognizing his former partner in a bank robbery a cavalier FBI agent tries to stop him and the militia behind it only to discover their greater threat to the area’s three dams and the real reason behind his partner’s involvement.

By Melton Eduardo Cartes
2002 Second Rounder — Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference
The Civil War continues for two men during Reconstruction when a Confederate soldier who has become a bandit learns that the Federal Marshal hunting him is his brother.

OXYGEN WARS— Sci-Fi
By Melton Eduardo Cartes
2001 Second Rounder — Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference
After surviving serious injuries, a clone soldier gets left out of the war he’s a part of and rediscovers his humanity as well as the truth behind the war.

CONTROL HOME— Sci-Fi
By Daniel Merritt and Melton Eduardo Cartes
1999 Semifinalist — Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference
A bounty hunter on the trail of an organ scam artist comes to realize that he may have found the man who has his original hands.

TIMETRIPPER— Sci-Fi
By Melton Eduardo Cartes and Daniel Merritt
2002 Second Rounder — Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference
A homicide detective in the ’40s investigates a series of gruesome murders and tries to figure out their connection to his schizophrenic brother.

FOUR SHADES OF BLACK— Action/Horror
By Melton Eduardo Cartes
2001 Second Rounder — Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference
A cop stumbles onto an ancient cult of supernaturally strengthened torturers and fights for his life as well as his identity as a good man.

LATENT IMAGE— Horror
By Melton Eduardo Cartes
2000 Semifinalist — Austin Heart of Film Screenwriting Conference
A globetrotting photojournalist is haunted by the image of a little girl in his photographs.

SOMEDAY!— Romantic Comedy
By Melton Eduardo Cartes
A career medical student sees his life, fianceé, and the world change when “Someday” actually arrives.