Month: March 2017

BEYOND WORDS – Celebrating Writers Guild Award-Nominated Writers

Photo Credit: Michael Jones/WGAW

by Kelly Jo Brick

The Writers Guild of America, West, the Writers Guild Foundation and Variety gathered together several of this year’s award-nominated writers to speak about their films. From craft to the business side of entertainment, nominees shared inspiring stories of the persistence and drive it took to get their movies made, the worst notes they ever received and that sometimes you need to break the rules.

TVWriter.com’s Contributing Editor, Kelly Jo Brick, talked with several of the writers to discover what’s the best advice they received early on in their writing careers.

ALLISON SCHROEDER – HIDDEN FIGURES read article

Writers Guild Strike, Anyone?

NOTE FROM LB: Negotiations regarding a new Writers Guild of America (both West and East) contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (all the major networks and studios) began yesterday. Here’s an informative breakdown of what it’s all about…as in what’s at stake here (a lot for both them and, yeah, us.)

by David Robb

Negotiations for a new WGA film and TV contract get underway Monday, and if the two sides fail to reach an agreement in a couple of weeks, expect a rush to get film scripts completed in anticipation of a strike come May 1, when the union’s current contract expires. read article

New Series on Hulu: ‘When the Street Lights Go On’

Just another primetime soap with the usual dark shit – murder, arson, we-all-know-the-drill – added?

Or is this new pilot, written by Chris Hutton and Eddie O’Keefe and directed by film buffs’ delight Brett Morgen really worth the response more than one TVWriter™ minion gave it:

“Wow!”

This one’s coming to Hulu as an original, and odds are that we’ll all have a chance to see what’s up. read article

Peggy Bechko’s World of Character Names

by Peggy Bechko

Writing a script? A novel? A short story?

Then you have characters who need names, and not just any name, but a name that sticks, a name that echoes, a name that sounds good coming from an actor’s lips or on the pages of a script or manuscript. So, as with most everything, there’s a good side and a bad side.

The good side – you’re god when it comes to your story. You’re the one who creates the characters and tags them with the names that will stay with them…and with you throughout the process of writing said script or novel. Yay!? read article

Larry Brody’s Poetry: ‘The Navajo Dog Reflects On Being Free’

by Larry Brody

NOTE FROM LB:

An early night of freedom for the Navajo Dog and me after I left L.A. I had never understood the value of having a knowing, loving – albeit impatient as hell teacher – till then.

The Navajo Dog Reflects On Being Free

When Kid Hollywood made his escape from the read article