One of our favorite sites is that of The Bitter Script Reader on blogspot. Dood describes himself as “a Hollywood script reader tired of seeing screenwriters make the same mistakes, saving the world from bad writing one screenplay at a time.
Last Fall, however, he wrote one of his best posts ever, and it applies to a whole season’s worth of TV. Time now for all new, soon-to-be-hot writers to settle back in big, padded, overpriced but amazingly comfortable gaming chairs and read the wisdom:
If you’ve been paying attention on this site, you know how big Audio Drama is getting. I’ve had five scripts produced and have produced two myself with another ten in the stack promised to producers. Right now audio drama is pretty much the Wild West of the entertainment industry. Even more so than web series, for reasons that will become apparent.
The easiest way to break in (at least, it was pretty easy for me) is to be a Writer-Producer. Writing scripts and sending them out to producers is one way to do it, but most producers are already buried under production schedules of what they currently have.
One of the most frequently asked questions here at TVWriter™ is, “What’s up with bibles?” As in, “I keep hearing that to get anybody interested in my TV series idea I have to write down what it’s all about? Is that for real…cuz whoa, it sounds hard.”
Well, it is hard. Hard enough so that the process takes up a big chunk of LB’s sorta, kinda well-known book Television Writing from the Inside Out, which if you haven’t yet read or bought you really should so check that out HERE.
But if you aren’t sure you want to pop for five bucks – and in these strange times who can blame any of us for not being sure about anything? – here’s an excellent – and short – intro to the whole process we came across recently. So:
Just what you need to start off the week: 18 non-rules (because the Brode doesn’t believe in rules) guaranteed to bring your beloved pet TV or film project to a lowly and humiliating end.
1. Start without an outline and wing it.
2. Don’t bother having a central theme.
Good morning!
Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order: