We don’t know whether we hope this is right…or pray that it’s dead wrong. Talk about out of frying pan and into the sizzler:
Is Talent Overrated?
by Anne R. Allen
I often run into new writers who want to be reassured they have talent. They sometimes ask me to read some fledgling work in hopes I’ll pronounce them “talented.”
I always decline. (A wise author never goes there.) It’s not simply that I can’t fit one more thing into my already jam-packed schedule—it’s also that I have no way of telling if people have talent.
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 11/30/14
That’s it. Time now for a little time off from the ordeal that seeing all these others writers have so many more opportunities and make so much more money than moi. Maybe I’ll work on my spec pilot, the one that I’m not being paid one single penny for and which most likely won’t end up on any known network or cable channel. And certainly won’t get my name in the Love & Money column unless I stick it in there myself.
Mmm, that sounds pretty sweet, actually. Keep your eyes open, lovely readers, cuz I’ll give a gift to the first person who comments and tellz me which upcoming listing is mine. for now. And don’t forget to write in and tell munchilito what you’ve sold when you sell it. Cuz TVWriter™ can’t wait to brag to all your friends. (And, more importantly, enemies. Hehehe….)
Strength of Character
Hollywood may close up shop and go into vacation mode around Thanksgiving time every year, but in other parts of the world (in this case India) TV execs eyes remained riveted to the ball:
by Divya Kaushik
Purnendu Shekhar feels that to be a successful writer for television one needs to understand relationships and their complexities, the working and business of channels and the art of interweaving several stories smartly. He tells Divya Kaushik that the audience should also be blamed for the success of low grade content on the small screen
Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works. Virginia Woolf must have been speaking on behalf of every writer when she wrote this famous line. Purnendu Shekhar can’t agree more on this. The script writer strongly feels that to weave a beautiful story it is important for a writer to connect with it personally. Each of his stories is born out of his experience and observations. He gives an example and says that the story of famous show Balika Vadhu that made him a household name was partly based on the experiences of his mother, who herself was married at the age of 15 in Rajasthan. “In fact, in the second episode of Balika Vadhu the lead (Anandi), who is a child bride, says a few lines and those lines were actually my mother’s lines which she told us in our childhood. In India, most cases of child marriages are from Rajasthan and since I spent a major part of my life there I can easily understand that. I started writing the story in 1992 and it was always close to my heart. Its success is an example of the fact that the audience connects with stories that are born out of writer’s heart,” says Shekhar.
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Entry 7 On to the Advanced Class
by Aaron Walker Sr.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Story So Far starts HERE)
One thing the writing class experience taught me was the importance of planning before you write. A little preparation in the beginning helps to prevent writer’s block later. But as I mentioned last week, my failure to plan made the revision process difficult.
The first task Daymond, Lloyd Walker Jr. (our artist! and an outstanding one!), and I embarked upon was to go through the script and get rid of any extraneous scenes. You know, those scenes that are kind of just there, but don’t really propel the story forward. And believe me, there were a lot of unnecessary scenes to remove.