Jill Golick’s website, Running With My Eyes Closed: Life at the Intersection of Television and Digital is a must-read for online film makers/entrepreneurs:
Everything you need to know to maximize your exposure and marketing on YouTube.
And that’s just for starters.
Where else?
I recently found myself in Wales exploring Cardiff Bay. My trip was brief because I was looking over my shoulder the entire time expecting a Dalek to attack me! Luckily I did not encounter one. I did get to see the Road Dahl Plass, Cardiff Bay Barrage, and Mermaid Quay. There I stumbled upon a memorial to a friend.
Because it’s so wonderful…and the way of the future too, y’know?
Y’know?
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The illustration above is called Sweet Halloween Dreams and was drawn by Alex Panagopoulos and posted to DeviantArt.Com, a site that holds thousands of drawings, paintings, wallpapers, you-name-it, most of it breathtakingly original and beautiful.
The way we here at TVWriter™ hear it, Dwayne Johnson, AKA The Rock, saw the drawing and fell in love with it. A little sweet talk here, a shove there, and New Line Films was the proud owner of the film rights to Sweet Halloween Dreams and busily at work finding a writer and director to implement The Rock’s vision of what a film centered around a teddy bear protecting his boy (or maybe it’s a girl?) should be.
Rejection is part of a writer’s life. Anyone who wants to make it as a writer needs to learn to face rejection bravely, gracefully, and frequently.
Three tips for coping with rejection:
Laugh at your rejections.
Learn from your rejections.
Always have a new project underway, something that will give you hope no matter how many rejections come your way for the previous project.
You may take some consolation in knowing the rejection history of these writers and works: