10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – 12/14/20

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Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™, starting with a look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last 7 days. They are, in order:

How To Write The Perfect TV Series Review To Captivate Your Readers

‘The Following’ Season 4 was Cancelled by Fox Because the TV Series Became a Victim of Lazy Writing! read article

Paul Thomas Anderson’s Advice on Writing

Paul Thomas Anderson’s films, which include Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There will be Blood, and more have been nominated for 25 Academy Awards. Dood knows his stuff, and spills on it here.

See more like this at the Behind the Curtain YouTube Channel

Film and TV Production Agreements

It’s a jungle out there! But if you’re shopping a TV/film project you already know that. Consider the following as a first step toward learning how to navigate your way into a deal. (And be prepared for the second step – hiring an entertainment lawyer to help you through the rest.)

By the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson

In any film or television production, there will be a great many production agreements which must be drafted by an experienced entertainment lawyer. read article

Don’t ever ask whether you should keep writing

Nathan Bransford, TVWriter™’s favorite publishing know-it-all, has a few words for us about every writer’s nightmare scenario.

by Nathan Bransford

By far the most common question I get when I’m working with authors is “will this sell?” (Spoiler: this is impossible to answer). read article

WRITING YOUR SCREENPLAY WHILE SOCIAL DISTANCING: VOICE-OVER

Did you know that the Writers Guild of America West has a foundation devoted to enabling/helping writers? And that the Writers Guild Foundation has a blog?

We just found out ourselves, and on our first visit, we saw this.

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