Month: October 2017

How to Talk About Your Skills Without Being an Asshole

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by Kevin Nelson

On average, editors spend only a couple of minutes figuring out whether they want or do not want to give you a chance and publish your story. The thing is that they get so many of them for every opening, they have no time to go into greater details.

Given that a few minutes is not too much, you have no right to blow your chance to get a perfect job due to a lack of understanding of what a good query letter should look like.

And there is a perfect way to present yourself in the best light. This should be done in a query letter written according to the standards we are about to talk here. read article

5 TV & Film Writers on How to Recover from Writing Setbacks

by Chris Richardson

You’re a TV writer and things are going well at the moment. You’re working on a show. You’re using your talent to do what you always wanted to do. What could possibly go wrong?

Oh, many things. read article

The idiot box: how the allure of working in TV ruined Britain

LB’S NOTE: Not the kind of post we usually run, but fascinating to someone like me who often has wondered whether spending my life working in TV was the wonderful gift it seemed to be – or aiding and abetting the, you know, devil. What do you think?

by Jonathan Maitland

How to sum up David Frost? The lazy writer’s friend, aka Wikipedia, calls him ‘an English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and television host’. To which I would add only: ‘Britain’s first TV superstar.’ (To some he was also ‘The Bubonic Plagiarist’, but we won’t dwell on that.) read article

Peggy Bechko Wants to Know: “Where’s the Talent?”

The search for talent never ends

by Peggy Bechko

Have you ever wondered about your talent for this writing thing? Whether scripts, books, articles, whatever. Have you ever thought, “Do I really have talent for this?”

I’ll be willing to say that’s a big yes for pretty much anyone reading this post. You have indeed asked that question of yourself and perhaps someone else – someone who’s read your work or maybe someone from whom you’ve taken a course. It’s a very real concern to writers. And, let’s face it, writers frequently need reassurance.

So, let’s think about this and ask a few questions. read article

Larry Brody’s Poetry: ‘A Father-Daughter Chat’

NOTE FROM LB

All in all, I think I’ve gotten pretty good at the writer thing, although there’s still a long way for me to go. What I’m really hoping, though, is that someday I’ll get the hang of this being-a-parent business. read article