Ya gotta love Script Reader Pro. It’s articles like these that show why:
Before accepting a writing gig and spending hours of your time working on someone else’s project, always remember: not all screenwriting jobs are worth doing.
For those who keep staring at the film listings for their local theaters and wondering, “Why?” TechCrunch has the scoop:
We used to think that as video games matured, as a medium, they would become more like Hollywood, becoming more focused on character development, plot reversals, and tight, suspense-driven narratives, rather than action set pieces alternating with cinematic cut scenes. Hoo boy, were we wrong. Instead the exact inverse has happened. Action movies have become more like video games. And you know what, this is no bad thing.
I thought of this while watching John Wick 3 last night. (Which I loved, as I did 1 and 2.) It’s not just that its ballet of bullets — especially the one with the dogs — are so like video games, in both structure and form, that they seem to have been practically been torn from a controller; you can practically see health bars and Stun markets hovering over the heads of the characters.
Our fave philosopher-cartoonist, Grant Snider, has written his first children’s book, and it’s now available for pre-order.
The cover alone has us salivating, and when you’re as old as this particular TVWriter™ minion, that ain’t as easy as it sounds:
Three videos exploring one of our absolutely least favorite tropes. In other words, a tip to writers with a sense of responsibility:
Monday we posted the latest news about the ongoing WGA-ATA, um, contretemps. Here’s a primer for those who don’t quite know what’s been going on:
As a writer, getting your content out there in the media can be a long shot in the dark on a sunny day with 3-D glasses on. Your sense of direction can be lost on which path to take that actually pays off. But that could all be changing very soon due to an uprising that has led to quirky hashtags on Twitter.