LB’s NOTE: I don’t like to analyze other people’s writing. I read it – or watch it – and I feel it and that’s that. But when I read this poem I felt something new.
I felt like I was reading and watching our entire world. Volume after volume after episode after episode of human life, in just a shade over a thousand words.
What does it say to you?
Just about every screenplay ever has the same basic problems when you sit down and start working on it. Here’s a very handy and helpful video guide to recognizing those problems and, more importantly, dealing with them:
Life is just one damn thing after another. Take diversity and the problems that it – and its solutions – can cause:
Dailyn Rodriguez, a veteran writer and producer, said she wasn’t necessarily looking to work on a new show for the coming season. But she suddenly found herself in high demand, her agents constantly fielding calls about her availability.
Three individuals and one writing team have been selected as winners of the 2018 Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting competition. The fellows will each receive a $35,000 prize, the first installment of which will be distributed at the Academy Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Awards Presentation & Live Read on Thursday, November 8, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. For the sixth consecutive year, an ensemble of actors will read selected scenes from the winning scripts.
The 2018 winners are (listed alphabetically by author):
Time now for this fall’s short con – TV network executives, who never seem able to predict their own job futures let alone anything else, are at it again, looking into their glazed over crystal balls to tell us all about how next season’s going to go.
And we, of course, are falling for it. Because…we’re fans, don’tcha know?
