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Script Mag Interviews TVWriter™’s Corinna Mendis

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Okay, so technically, Corinna isn’t really ours. She belongs to herself. But she did write a very popular article about writing and producing her own pilot (for her series NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD) and we’ve been trying to get her to write more ever since.

Corinna’s been doing more than sharpening her pencils, though. She’s written a couple of awesome specs and placed her talented little hand firmly on the brass ring by being interviewed on a podcast at ScriptMag.Com. (Hey, LB, didn’t you write a column for Script back in the Dark Ages when it was something people held in their hands that was made from trees?) read article

Do You Know About “Scriptshadow?”

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In TVWriter™’s never ending search to bring the truth, the whole truth, and nuthin’ but the truth to TV and film writers, TV and film fans, and just plain pop culture wackos, we’ve just discovered a website that although not new literally, definitely is new to us. And also wonderful.

We’re talking about Scriptshadow.Net, which has no idea we’ve ever visited or that we’re writing this recommendation. It’s a very complete site with lots of excellent script writing advice, script analysis, contests, and all that kind of good thing. Our favorite articles so far have been: read article

7 Types of Narrative Conflict

Conflict is what stories are all about, TV and film stories even more than those in other arenas. Daily Writing Tips gives us a terrific overview:

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by Mark Nichol

Every work of literature, and much nonfiction narrative, is based on at least one of the following conflicts. When you write a story or a biography, or relate a true event or series of events, you need not focus on such themes, and there’s no reason to state them explicitly (except in passing, perhaps, to provide insight about a biographical subject), but you’re wise to identify the conflicts inherent in your composition and apply them as you write. read article

Science Looks into Productivity…

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…and comes up with some cool perspectives:

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BitTorrent ‘s Bram Cohen Patents Revolutionary Live Streaming Protocol

This is a Big Deal. A Huge Big Deal.

Or to put it another way, we find it kinda cool:

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Hoping to revolutionize live broadcasting on the Internet, Bram Cohen has filed a patent application for the new BitTorrent Live streaming protocol. BitTorrent’s inventor has worked on the new technology for several years and believes his new protocol can be world-changing. “We plan to shape the future of live broadcasts and want to work with broadcasters to accomplish that,” Cohen says. read article