BATES HOTEL’s Carlton Cuse Wants You

…To design the show’s opening “credits.” Well, the press release says “credits,” but we’re thinking it probably means “titles,” no?

Anyway, here’s the skinny. A &E Network has put out the call for fans to help create the opening title sequence for BATES MOTEL, a prequel to the Hitchcock-Joseph Stefano (hey, he’s the writer!) classic, PSYCHO. read article

The Science of Storytelling

AKA Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains:

by Leo Widrich

A good story can make or break a presentation, article, or conversation. But why is that? When Buffer co-founder Leo Widrich started to market his product through stories instead of benefits and bullet points, sign-ups went through the roof. Here he shares the science of why storytelling is so uniquely powerful. read article

In Their Own Writ Dept – 12/9/12

by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

Two things I’ve learned so far about life and writing:

  1. It isn’t about the answers, but the questions. 
  2. It’s not what you ask, it’s how.

Larry Brody

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The One Film Every New TV Writer Must See

…And it wouldn’t hurt the film types either.

Some showrunner type you may have heard of – Damon Lindelof of LOST

If you want to know what it’s really like to toil in the diamond mines of episodic television, run, do not walk, to SHOWRUNNERS, a documentary that tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Directed by Des Doyle, the full-length film features the most powerful cast of superstar TV showrunners this side of, oh, Venus, including: read article

The Doctor Puppet in Brooklyn! Wearing a Scarf!

And you can see it right here:

See more of the Doctor Puppet. C’mon, we dares ya!

Hey, we didn’t say this was important or even meaningful. We just think it’s, you know, cute.