By Lesley J. Vos
“Oh, no! Him. Again…”
If it was the first thought that came to your mind after reading the title, you should continue reading the article by all means.
Month: August 2015
Most Popular TVWriter™ Posts of the Week Ending August 28, 2015
The most clicked-on posts by TVWriter™ visitors during the past week were:
Leesa Dean on Shooting Yourself in the Foot
Adventures in Digital Series Land – Chapter 110
by Leesa Dean
Been working like a psycho, trying to bang out these mini-episodes and it’s been tough. Wanna have 35 in the can before I return to final animation production on the new series—hopefully within 2 1/2 weeks. It’s a lot.
Meanwhile, in the midst of all of this, I spoke with a friend whose script recently made it into the first round of a prestigious competition. She wrote about it on Facebook and when I congratulated her, she minimized the achievement. That mini act of self-deprecation stopped me in my tracks and I thought I’d write about it. Mostly cause it’s something I used to do all the time. Until recently.
Why? Three reasons:
13 Tips for Actually Getting Some Writing Accomplished
At last! Just what we’ve been waiting for. A guide to getting our writing, erm, written. And being finished is just as good as being brilliant, year?
Maybe better cuz for some of us it’s even harder.
by Gretchen Rubin
One of the challenges of writing is…writing. Here are some tips that I’ve found most useful for myself, for actually getting words onto the page:
Diana Black Begins Our Hero’s Journey
The Hero’s Journey in Episodic Television – Part 1
by Diana Black
Before we explore the concept of ‘The Hero’s Journey’ in relation to episodic television, let’s first define ‘The Hero’ and the nature of the ‘Heroic journey’.
It’s generally hard to be heroic while doing the laundry, the weekly grocery shopping, shaving or any of the other mundane day-to-day things we occupy ourselves with…hence we unconsciously yearn for more – to experience ‘living on the brink’ , in fear of losing that life, so as to test ourselves on ‘the battlefield’ where we hope like hell to prevail. Perhaps this is the reason why high-intensity sport is so popular – for the adrenalin rush it provides. Perhaps it’s also why for more than a few, there’s a desire to reminisce with cherished comrades who also survived the insanity of ‘the’ war.
So if ‘normal’ life falls short of providing us with self-validation, what can we do? Among other things, we can experience pain and triumph by proxy – ‘experiencing’ being a hero via the big or little screen.