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Month: May 2019
2019 HBOAccess Writing Fellows Announced
from TVWriter™ Press Service
HBO has announced the eight writers chosen to participate in its 2019 HBOAccess Writing Fellowship, an eight-month program offering master classes and mentorship with an HBO executive as the writers develop a pilot script for HBO.
This year’s participants are:
Oscar Winner Alvin Sargent on Screenwriting
From WGA West’s YouTube Channel:
In 2015, several years before his death earlier this month, the Writers Guild of America West’s Career Longevity Committee staged a reading of Alvin Sargent’s unproduced screenplay Madly In Love as part of their WGAW Inclusion & Equity Department’s Seasoned Readings, a program that celebrates the work of older writers.
The Career Longevity is one of nine committees overseen by the WGAW’s Inclusion and Equity Department.
What Happened to John Carpenter’s GHOSTS OF MARS?
“John Carpenter is huge to me for many reasons, three of which are ‘They Live,’ ‘Christine,’ and the fact that he lived only one block away from me on Wonderland Avenue back when residing in Laurel Canyon was cool.” Larry Brody
Writer-Director John Carpenter has been a cult fave for 5 decades, and deservedly so. Even our Beloved Leader Larry Brody is a fan.
Re-Thinking Writer’s Block
Rethinking – yet again – that lively condition/situation/happenstance known near and far as Writer’s Block (or Writers’ Block, or Writers Block) because, hey, it beats trying to write, yeah?
by Will Dowd
Writer’s block is a serious disease. Whether it manifests as blank page syndrome or second novel disorder, the onset of symptoms is the same: an arthritic cramp in the creative faculty, a feverish spike of self-consciousness, and a peculiar amnesia that leaves the writer wondering how he or she ever managed to compose a single sentence.