Peer Production: FILM_FX L3.0

A short French video with an interesting twist. Made by a team that knows how to manipulate the viewer’s emotions. So well done!

Leo Robot Hi- Tech company , wanders alone in Paris after the mysterious disappearance of all living species. He spends his days trying to entertain but to no avail. Until the day he meets a new living being …

Film made by students: read article

Writing Basics for, Um, Basic Writers

Are you a total newbie? Somebody with that burning need or desire to write who hasn’t a clue about how to get started? Great, that means you won’t be any competition for us TVWriter™ minions. Not to worry, this article’s got all the info you need to get started:

basic-imageby Rita Karnopp

People often talk about the all-important first draft.  After writing the past hundred or so years (a bit of an exaggeration there) I realized early on several important facts about writing.

  • Set a daily writing routine.
  • Set goals.
  • Period.

Daily writing routine – Let’s give this some thought.  We are by nature creatures of habit.  We generally get up around the same time every day (most times it’s because we have a JOB) and we get home around the same time.  We also eat and go to sleep about the same time every day.  So why not start and stop writing around the same time – unless you’re in a ‘writer’s surge’ and nothing – but nothing should stop or interfere with that wonderful experience. read article

Peggy Bechko: Time for Writer’s Introspection

 by Peggy Bechko

wolf printsWriters, at least fiction writers, pretty much live in a world of make-believe. We live in worlds of our own creation and in that living attempt to make those worlds real to everyone else; readers, listeners, watchers.

But it’s not as simple as sitting around spinning tales. Don’t we wish. There’s a whole lot that goes into writing a story and one aspect of that is research. No you can’t skip it.

Getting facts straight brings believability. If your setting is in the 1920’s Chicago you better know what you’re talking about to get the mood set and not flush readers and watchers right out of their ‘suspension of disbelief’ mode. Yes that goes for Sci Fi and Fantasy as well – get some facts in there that will make your ‘way out of our experience’ world more real. If you trim unreality with reality you bring belief and immersion. read article

Peer Production: A Beginner’s Guide to Stop Motion Animation

…And it’s by Alisa Stern, the very talented creator of The Doctor Puppet, so it’s not only a great primer, it’s entertaining as, well, hell:

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 9/23/14

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
by munchman

  • Kevin Costello (UP IN THE AIR) is writing a Fox drama pilot about an airline flight crew who pull big heists in various layover cities as a sideline.  (Here’s hoping there’s a bit more to this than the description. Although yer munchero finds it fascinating that the usually ultra-conservative TV nets are into such heavy, Bonnie and Clyde style anti-dis-establishmentarianism. Hey, did I spell that word right? I know I probably used it wrong.)
  • Betsy Thomas (WHITNEY) is the new showrunner of NBC’s BAD JUDGE. (Give her a call! Take her to lunch! Promise a kickback from your salary. Maybe – if she doesn’t call the cops on you – you’ll end up with a gig. Stranger things have happened, right?)
  • David G.B. Brown (THE SCARECROW AND MRS. KING) died September 6th at 67. (No snark or jokes here, just TVWriter™’s condolences to his family and friends. Good writer!
  • Lee Maddux (NIGHT COURT) died September 9th at 84. (No snark here either, although funny man that he was, Mr. Maddux might appreciate a few jokes. If only the munchy dude was funny enough to do him justice. Condolences to Mr. M’s family and friends.

That’s it for now. Write in and tell munchilito what you’ve sold today. TVWriter™ can’t wait to brag to all your friends. (And, more importantly, enemies. Hehehe….)