Month: December 2017

The Reality of Conversations

There’s book dialog, film dialog, TV dialog, and – you may even have heard it once or twice – real-life dialog. The following video brilliantly analyzes conversational speech and gives major insight into how we, as writers, can, well, you know, write it:

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‘Freedom Snatch’ is now on the Web…and in L.A. too

Are you an oldtimer who misses the ’60s and ’70s and the creative freedom that went with them?

Or a spoiled, spite-filled, lost and floundering millennial longing to have a crack at the wildness you’ve missed?

Or, oh, how about a person who just plain enjoys the hell out of good comedy? read article

The Best and Worst Writing Career Advice I Ever Got

by Kathryn Graham

The best and worst advice I ever got was that if I wrote an amazing script, the world would sit up and take notice. All I have to do is perfect my craft et voila! Success! My genius script will get me in the door based on the quality of the writing alone.

It’s the best advice because it focused my attention where it needed to be: on my work. read article

How To Make A Blockbuster Movie Trailer

Y’all may not have noticed, but we here at TVWriter™ often write about writing. It’s kind of our thing, in fact. The other day we came upon a video that wrote about writing also…even though it’s a video. We thought that in itself was cool, but then we realized something way cooler. This video is about the one thing that’s even more important to film (or TV show) success than the script.

That’s right, kids. This video is about…

Talk about our your having a lucky day! Ain’t the Christmas season grand? read article

“Failure ain’t nuthin’ but success misspelled.”

Successful people don’t give up when they fail at something. They use the lessons they’ve learned from this bump in the road and roll right ahead. Really, they do. We read it somewhere on the interwebs. And you’re going to read more right here:

5 Times I Failed and What I Learned
from This Yuppie Life

Last Saturday, I attended my final goal-group meeting of the year. This is the meeting where we are asked to stand up in front of the group and state what our biggest challenges and our biggest achievements were this year: Insert panic here! When I looked back at the goals I’d set last January, I couldn’t check many off the list. I wondered if perhaps I’d set the wrong goals—or maybe I hadn’t tried hard enough? Or could it be that I just simply suck? Have you ever had a year like that?

If I had to sum up 2017 in one word, it would be challenging. My husband left his very good job at a prominent company last August to launch his indie virtual-reality game; what set out to be a six-month project has turned into fourteen months of the unknown—and I’m sorry to admit that I don’t handle the unknown very well. Funny that I chose to be an entrepreneur! read article