Well, for one brief, shining moment anyway:
Yeppers, it’s DOCTOR WHO’s Doctor and NOT INSPECTOR SPACETIME’s Not Inspector Spacetime, making each other’s acquaintance at last.
Author: TVWriter.Com
Billy Wilder’s Writing Tips
Snatched from WritingClasses.Com, which in turn seems to have dug them out of Cameron Crowe’s book Conversations with Wilder.
We kinda like WritingClasses’ version better because it’s, you know, shorter:
- The audience is fickle.
- Grab ‘em by the throat and never let ‘em go.
- Develop a clean line of action for your leading character.
- Know where you’re going.
- The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer.
- If you have a problem with the third act, the real problem is in the first act.
- A tip from Lubitsch: Let the audience add up two plus two. They’ll love you forever.
- In doing voice-overs, be careful not to describe what the audience already sees. Add to what they’re seeing.
- The event that occurs at the second act curtain triggers the end of the movie.
- The third act must build, build, build in tempo and action until the last event, and then—that’s it. Don’t hang around.
Peer Production: How the Hell Did They Make This?
Amazing aerial footage, dogfight lovers.
Um, that’s airplane dogfighting, not, you know, dog dogfighting. We’ll leave that other arena to assholes like Michael Vick.
Peer Production: Sonic the Hedgehog Fan Film
When we were 8 years old, we lived and breathed for Sonic. Nothing in life was as important as our beloved supersonic hedgehog and the company that brought him to us, Sega.
Sega’s all but gone now, and so is Sonic–wait, what’s that? It looks like…no, it can’t be. OMG, it is, it is. It’s:
Why You Should Give Yourself Permission to Screw Up
We’re reaching an age – Oh God, late 20s! – where we’re finally starting to see that the most important thing we can do to stay sane, let alone be happy, is to forgive ourselves. 99u.Com gives us a few tips on the subject:
by Heidi Grant Halvorson
How does it feel when you make a mistake on something that really matters?
Is it frustrating? Do you want to scream, to kick something, to slap your forehead really hard? Do mistakes make you angry with yourself?