Stephanie Bourbon: “How to go deeper with your characters”

LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, shows us how to write deeper characters and in the process reveals how very deep her own character is.

by Stephanie Bourbon

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Writers, Avoid These Grammar Mistakes!

Experteditor.Com brings us this helpful infographic about grammar errors y’all – make that we all – really need to avoid.

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Writers vs. Execs Dept: Saying No to Free Leavebehinds

The current discussion regarding free leavebehinds is one of the most contentious TV and film writing issues of our time. The Writers Guild of America West is dead against it. In the following video, several top writers do their best to clarify why.

More WGAW Videos for all our edification

Facing Your Fear of Success

Time now for us to face The Fear That Must Not Be Named. This is by far the best we’ve read this week.

How to Identify and Deal With a Fear of Success
by Elizabeth Yuko

Fear of failure makes sense. We’ve all experienced failure at some stage, realized it’s not great, and are worried about feeling like that again. But our brains are hard to please. Because in addition to the fear of failure, many people also experience a fear of success.

Though it may sound ridiculous, being afraid of succeeding is very real—although it’s not always obvious. In other words, you may be experiencing a fear of success and not realizing it (or are grouping it in with fear of failure). Ideally, we want to avoid these kinds of stresses and fears, so here are some tips for identifying and dealing with a fear of success. read article

Stacey Jones: NOTHING BUT SPOILERS (Because That’s How You Learn) #4

EDITOR’S ALERT: This is the fourth in Stacey Jones’ ongoing discussion of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and its place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Ergo, like it says in the title of this post, a world of SPOILERS awaits below the thin red line. Oh and also an assumption that you’re familiar with the MCU!

THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER
S1:E4 The Whole World is Watching
by Stacey Jones

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