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The Way It Is
This is a fictitious story about four very real guys in New York City, a year after graduating from the famed Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre. It was the spring of 1993, a time of hope and a time of struggle, a time of truth and chasing dreams.
What you’re about to read is walk back in time in the form of a screenplay, written by the author a few years after leaving the city. It was his way of once more spending time in the company of treasured friends.
The Way It Is is an ode to friendship, to acting, to writing, to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and, of course, to the one and only New York City.
What you’re about to read is walk back in time in the form of a screenplay, written by the author a few years after leaving the city. It was his way of once more spending time in the company of treasured friends.
The Way It Is is an ode to friendship, to acting, to writing, to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and, of course, to the one and only New York City.
185 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 29, 2017
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About the author
Daniel Martin Eckhart
21 books31 followersDaniel Martin Eckhart is the author of the novels The Champ, Barnaby Smith, Home, Tales of Wychwood and The Sweet-Maker of Connemara.
Eckhart has written screenplays for more than two decades, has published several of his original screenplays in the Eckhart Screenplays series and shared his experiences about the life of a screenwriter in his book, Write, Write, Write.
Before focusing on his writing career, Eckhart served in the Swiss military, guarded the Pope's life in the Vatican, worked for the United Nations, driving trucks across the Sinai Desert, delivering diplomatic mail to Damascus and driving armored limousines in Beirut. After five adventurous years in Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, Eckhart quit the UN to study acting in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where he discovered screenwriting. He has penned several feature-length movies, worked on TV shows and has adapted novels for the small screen.
Eckhart lives with his family on a 17th century farm in Switzerland.
Eckhart has written screenplays for more than two decades, has published several of his original screenplays in the Eckhart Screenplays series and shared his experiences about the life of a screenwriter in his book, Write, Write, Write.
Before focusing on his writing career, Eckhart served in the Swiss military, guarded the Pope's life in the Vatican, worked for the United Nations, driving trucks across the Sinai Desert, delivering diplomatic mail to Damascus and driving armored limousines in Beirut. After five adventurous years in Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq, Eckhart quit the UN to study acting in New York at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where he discovered screenwriting. He has penned several feature-length movies, worked on TV shows and has adapted novels for the small screen.
Eckhart lives with his family on a 17th century farm in Switzerland.
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