You know what the perfect idea is, don’t you? After all, we’ve all had ’em, right? But nobody illustrates them as perfectly as Grant Snider:
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Month: August 2015
Peggy Bechko’s Writers World
Remember the Basics
by Peggy Bechko
Admittedly, I write and I write about writing. I write a bit of everything – at different times – and I’ve given basic mechanical advice at times.
Today I want to revert to the very basics and give a few reminders. How basic?
Well, for starters the writer needs to show up. Every day. And by that I mean write every day. Have a place where you can sit down and write and do it. And if you can’t do it every day, have a schedule and stick to that. Barring an ultimate emergency, stick to it no matter what happens. You simply have to ‘show up’ if you want to get it done.
DREAM BIG, WORK SMALL-ISH
A good way (well, as good as any, all things considered) to break into showbiz as a writer is to write indie screenplays. What’s an indie screenplay? There are a lot of criteria we could use to come up with a definition, but the best working one we have is this: Indie screenplays are low-budget screenplays.
So, keeping that in mind:
On Writing Low Budget Screenplays
by Paul Zeidman
I recently had lunch with a friend who’s a working writer.
Indie Film & VIdeo: VINCE GILLIGAN’S ISLAND
Indie web series star, writer, director, producer, and and all around super-creator Travis Richie does it again:
Best-Performing TV Shows? Look To Ad Revs, Not Ratings
It’s long been known that creativity isn’t necessarily grounds for a TV show’s success. We’ve all known that the key to staying on the air is ratings.
Except – it’s starting to look like ratings no longer tell the story. Enter a more specific analytic: Ad revenues, boys and girls. Here’s what we mean:
by Wayne Friedman
TV networks would love for business reporters to stop writing about TV ratings — especially stories that only look at next-day ratings.