Chuckerman Makes a Movie

A Novel

Francie Arenson Dickman

• Publisher: She Writes Press
• eBook ISBN:
  9781631524868
• Year: 2018

"Love matters a little, but luck matters more."
The words of thirty-five-year-old David Melman's Jewish grandmother still haunt him. He's scared to settle down. Instead, he dates twenty-something pop stars that he meets through his celebrity-branding business. But when his niece and nephew inform him that he's hit "rock bottom" with his latest inappropriate relationship, David realizes that change might be in order-so when his sister Marcy, with her own ulterior motive, pushes him to take a film-writing class taught by her friend Laurel, he agrees.
Will writing a movie about a childhood visit to his grandparents in Florida, an unforgettable driving lesson, and a 1977 Cadillac bring David love? Luck? Or both?
Alternating between David's present-day life and his past through his movie script, Chuckerman Makes a Movie is a romantic comedy blended with a comedic coming-of-age.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Chapter 1: The Ride to the Bottom
• Chapter 2: What Do You Know?
• Chapter 3: The First Scene
• Chapter 4: The Catalyst Scene
• Chapter 5: 3 Woos and 3 Scenes
• Chapter 6: The Outing
• Chapter 7: Sequencing and Seeing the Forest Through the Trees
• Chapter 8: Objects and Affections
• Chapter 9: Parallel Journeys
• Chapter 10: Introducing Lucille
• Chapter 11: Transitions
• Chapter 12: Spectacle Scenes and Lessons on Perspectives
• Chapter 13: Twists and Turns
• Chapter 14: Sex and Subtext
• Chapter 15: Dialogue
• Chapter 16: Words We‘d Never Dare to Say
• Chapter 17: Moments of Truth
• Chapter 18: The Resolution
• Chapter 19: The End
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author