This past weekend you may have noticed that we reprinted/linked to not one but two articles from HollywoodJournal.Com. (Um, that would be HERE and HERE.)
That’s because we just found the site and, well, you know how we are, we fell in love with it. HJC is loaded with articles that we found not only helpful but vastly entertaining. These writers are funny. So funny, in fact, that we wish we could get them to work for us.
Know what we hate more than anything?
Well, maybe not more than anything cuz we really, really, really hate bad writing, slow-paced TV shows, commercials, inconsiderate behavior of all kinds–
Maybe we’d better just stop for now and get back to our main point which is that it has come to our attention that one of the least visited pages on TVWriter™ is our page of favorite television and writing sites. And we find that disturbing cuz we’ve benefitted greatly by having them in our RSS feeds (see, Google, somebody still uses RSS!), and we think you’re missing out by not visiting at least some of these great places too.
We’re constantly revising our lives here at TVWriter™. The way we see it, if we can just get it right we’re bound to get that Big Reward we’ve been searching for. You know, like selling our screenplay….
by Kara Holden
I love writing. I do. Love the creation of something that has never existed in the world before, love the way dialogue plays in my head, love the sound the keys make as I transcribe it to the page. But today I have a confession to make: as much as I love writing, I hate rewriting. Even now, I’m about ready to chuck my computer into the washing machine and set it on spin if my husband gives me one more note to make this opening paragraph “punchier.” There. Punchy enough?
I know, I know, don’t blame the messenger. And the truth is, like the famous quote points out, writing is rewriting. But the necessity of it doesn’t make it any easier. It is difficult, tedious and sometimes painful work. It hurts to whittle away words that hard work have wrought – to “kill your darlings” as Faulkner once quipped. Hard to look at your own work with a critical eye (or to stop being so critical in some cases). It is difficult to cut away lines you love, characters you have grown to adore and scenes you are proud of, simply because they aren’t moving the story forward.
Yet another way to produce your own work. Wish we’d thought of this super idea:
by Jessica Cabot
All the time young college students who don’t know any better are asking me, “Hey, Jessica, how do I make it in the entertainment industry? How can I get a job as a writer’s assistant like the one you used to have?” I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have a lot of help along the way on my career journey. It’s the least I can do to pay it forward and divulge my insider industry secrets.
As such, the following are my top ten pieces of advice for people who aspire to be more like me and waste their lives pursuing delusional pipe dreams:
1. BE NICE? – People are always complaining that everyone here is a jerk, so if you’re nice you’ll probably stand out. Standing out is good.
