Month: January 2015

Cracking the Sitcom Code

Formulas? We’re sitcom writers. We don’t need no steenkin’ formulas.

Or do we?

croationcomedy

by Noah Charney

As happens to so many of us, I was asked to write a sitcom for Croatian television. I’m an American ex-pat living in Slovenia, and I know next to nothing about Croatia, besides the fact that it’s Slovenia’s southern neighbor, a fellow ex-Yugoslav republic, and that the language resembles Slovene except with a lot more “js” in it. I am a writer of books and articles, and I used to write a lot of plays, but I’ve never written for television. So I immediately said, “Sure, of course I can do that,” before rushing off to Google “How to write a sitcom.” read article

Cargo 3120: The Making of a Sci-Fi Franchise #11

CARGO3120Entry 11 – Taking on the World Wide Web
by Aaron Walker Sr.

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The Story So Far starts HERE)

As I said last week, web design was never my thing. I felt I never had an eye for it, nor the patience to learn the process for that matter. But I knew I had to change by attitude toward this task or this was never going to work. That meant doing a ton of research.

We wanted a blog style site with the ability to show the latest webcomic page when a person first accesses the site. We planned to release one page per week, so we needed to be able to queue up content to release on a set schedule. read article