Author: TVWriter.Com
Hollywood Realizing That Facebook Likes Don’t Result In Box-Office Bonanzas
Once upon a time there was this terrific free promotion site called Facebook. FB users were happy. FB marketers were happy. FB execs were – or at least seemed – happy.
Then Facebook did its IPO thing and changed its policies, resulting in nobody being happy. If that isn’t a true reflection of the problem with our current business paradigm, then what is?
For example:
How Can I Make Deadlines Less Stressful?
Um…plan ahead? Do your work? Or maybe just stop caring? Sure, that’s the easy way around the problem, right?
Uh-oh. Lifehacker.Com disagrees:
Ken Levine Asks: What comedy spec to write in 2013?
Is Ken Levine comedy writing’s Larry Brody? What would either of them think if they were asked?
Oh dear. If we had to ask that second question, that means we’re worried that the answer wouldn’t go down well. And if we’re worried about it, then it probably won’t. So forget we said anything. No comparisons from here, no sir. Just, you know, read:
by Ken Levine
Here’s a question I get (and am happy to answer) every year.
Can Any Story Really Be “Character-Driven?”
In his best-selling how-to-write book, Television Writing from the Inside Out, our Fearsome Leader, LB, makes the argument that all books, movies, and television episodes are story-driven because writers, consciously or unconsciously, always end up creating characters whose personalities will work most effectively within their preconceived story structure. Even the best-written of those characters only seems be be pushing the story forward; s/he is actually capable of only choosing, or, rather, seeming to choose, moves that the story already wants to make.
Over the years, TVWriter™ ‘s boss has caught a lot of flak for this, which made it particularly interesting for those of us who work for him and want to suck up a bit to encounter this particular post on AdvicetoWriters.Com last Christmas weekend: