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Month: February 2018
Writing Stronger Sentences
That’s what you want to do, isn’t it? Build up your word muscles and write strong sentences? Ah, we knew it! Here’s a short article that addresses the situation. Or to put it more clearly: Here’s how to write sentence that work:
Write Stronger Sentences With the 2-3-1 Trick
by Nick Douglas
In my six semesters as an English major, this is the best thing I learned: When in doubt, 
put the best bit of a sentence at the end, the next-best bit at the beginning, and the rest in the middle. So in order of bestness, that’s 2, then 3, then 1.
What’s the “best bit”? It might be the bit that sounds prettiest. It might be the bit that gets at your larger point. It might be the most specific or surprising word.
Diana Vacc sees “The Alienist”
by Diana Vaccarelli
—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—SPOILER ALERT—
This winter TNT premiered The Alienist, a 10 episode series that showing what police work was like before the turn of the 20th Century.
Set in 1896, this psychological thriller centers around the murder of a young prostitute boy. The event brings together an Alienist (at the time the term for certain experts on mental illness), a newspaper illustrator, a secretary, and Theodore Roosevelt in the job he actually had at the time, New York City Police Commissioner, all working to solve this brutal crime.
How to Get a Pitch Meeting When You’re New & Unknown
Who among us hasn’t asked the question that is the headline of this post? And who among us has found a good answer?
Maybe, just maybe, you have. Right here and now, courtesy of this instructive video from Scott Kirkpatrick found on Film Courage’s YouTube Channel:
Scott’s book, Writing for the Green Light: How to Make Your Script the One Hollywood Notices is HERE
In This Corner, TV. In That Corner…The Working Class?
What’s that you said? “Why won’t TV show people who aren’t rich?” It’s a good question, especially for this aging TVWriter™ minion who as a proud Gen Xer can uncategorically state, “Because was ever thus.”
Luckily for all of us, here’s an article that explains it much better:
