Month: January 2017

Diana Vacc sees ‘Emerald City’ (POV #1)

EDITOR’S NOTE: We didn’t mean to play “Dueling Emerald City”s, but as fate would have it, we find ourselves with two very different reviews of the same show to share. Which is cool because, seriously, what kind of world would it be if everybody always agreed?

Here’s #1:

by Diana Vaccarelli

On January 6, 2017 NBC introduced a new show called Emerald City. This series is a modern re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz. This time around Dorothy is a nurse in a nursing home and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dorothy is then swept into Oz in a police car during a tornado. read article

Peggy Bechko’s Approach to Making Your Fiction Writing Real

by Peggy Bechko

Suck ‘em in. Don’t let go of their eyeballs – whether they be script reader, editor or reader, that’s your goal as a writer. And I know you’ve all experienced it yourselves. That film that’s fantastic, the book that draws you in until you forget where you are. Some writers have a native ability to paint those characters and backgrounds in such a way that they feel real.

So how do they do that? How can the rest of us writers do the same?

One way is to add realism. read article

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – January 23, 2017

Here we go, TVWriter™’s  latest look at our 5 most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:

2016 PEOPLE’S PILOT Semi-Finalists! read article

LB: ‘Moonlight’ Writer Shuts Down the Hollywood Bullshit

by Larry Brody

As I said on Twitter last week, my Oscar favorite for this year is Moonlight. I’m rooting for it for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, you name it.

In other words, I’m absolutely recommending that everyone reading this post run out and see the film. But if you need further incentive (oh hell, even if you don’t), you should watch this interview with Tarell Alvin McCraney, the writer whose play of the same name is the basis for the film. read article

munchman sees ‘The Mick’

by munchdaddy

…and yer friendly neighborhood munchlinio lurves it!

THE GOOD: read article