Essential Conditions for Writing Success

Our essential condition for writing success is a workable definition of “success.” But Charlotte Rains Dixon is more pragmatic:

writing_stuffby Charlotte Rains Dixon (Wordstrumpet.com)

What, exactly, are the essential conditions for writing success, you ask? read article

Peer Production: La Fleur De Mai

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Hey, we’re the biggest proponents of web series anywhere, and we’re rooting for everybody who is working on one – and encouraging everybody who isn’t to get on the damn bus and go.

But the only thing we could think of when we saw this trailer was: “Get a sensahumor, dammit.” Oh well, maybe the episodes themselves won’t be so, um, deliberate. read article

The power of naive questions…

And now a few words on innocence and creativity and how they go together like…um, we’ll get back to you on that, okay?

But for now:

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME Returns!

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No, not Stephen Hawking’s 1988 book of the same name but a documentary about Hawking’s life by documentary writer-director-producer Errol Morris.

Morris first released the film in 1991 and now as part of a celebration of Hawking’s 71st birthday you can find all 79+ minutes of it right here: read article

Peer Production: R’HA by Kaleb Lechowski

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Whoa! This is awesome! Everyone here at TVWriter™ who saw it fell in love with this story featuring an alien soldier and his robotic captors. Damn thing is breaktakingly realistic, and word is that because of it, creator Kaleb Lechowski now has some serious Hollywood agent-type representation.

Gonna be fun watching this guy snatch the brass ring. (Hey, that’s the phrase. We would’ve changed it to “gold ring,” but now that we live in L.A. we’re thinking brass is more fitting anyway. Oy!) read article