Glad you asked:
by Adam Dachis
Dear Lifehacker,
I have good, sometimes great ideas from time to time but I don’t really know how to get anyone to listen. Usually I start and I can see there attention fade away after a few minutes. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, or how to keep people interested. What can I do to make my pitches more interesting and get people to actually listen to them?
Yeah, we know this actor has a different name from that of the character he played years ago, but we’ve vowed not to acknowledge either his existence or the passage of time since THAT 70s SHOW.
Anyway here’s Ashton Kutcher you-know-who as Steve Jobs, proving something all of us who want to write TV need to know: Sometimes, no matter how well written a script is, a project – be it a show or a film – will still end up as shit because of the failure of some other element – production values, for example, the director, or, you know, the star.
And, yes, we’re predicting that jOBS, written by Matt Whiteley, will be one of those projects. Our advice: Read a copy of the script, which should be on the web soon (if it already isn’t), and then see the pic with your sense of humor firmly in place.
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A couple of weeks ago we announced the publication of the revised and updated Kindle version of the boss’ best-selling how-to-write book, Television Writing from the Inside Out. It’s a great book. We love it. And so have thousands of readers and reviewers over the past few years.
We said a little about this deal earlier today here, but this is your chance to see what a web video that goes big time looks like. Hint: It doesn’t appear all that expensive. Hit up your parents and let talent and fate do the rest:
And, yeah, we admit that Ms McDonald’s no noob. She was a writer-story editor on NURSE JACKIE. More importantly, though, she took a shot…and, honest, you can too.
…And TVWriter™ pals at Screen Novelties have scored:
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