by Larry Brody
The WGAW has posted the recommended payment rates for TV pilot scripts, and I gotta tell you, my mouth is watering. This almost makes me wish I never retired.
ALMOST.
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Aha! The Answer We’ve All Been Waiting For!
Sad but true:
Our Narrative Prison
By Eliane Glaser
How is it that we live in an era of apparently unprecedented choice and yet almost every film and TV series, as well as a good many plays and novels, have exactly the same plot? We meet the protagonist in their ordinary world, plodding along, not living their best life. And then an inciting incident changes everything, making it impossible for the protagonist to carry on as normal. They are pulled into a new quest. On the way, they meet someone who shows them a completely different way of being. They ask themselves: have I been living a lie?
This is the mid-point, the point of no return. Life can never be the same. But there’s a double wobble since the protagonist’s quest is opposed by a powerful antagonist who frustrates the hero at every turn. At their lowest point, the protagonist realises their old mode of being is redundant, but the new one is too daunting. The story is resolved either in the protagonist’s favour or against them: they triumph or else fail tragically. The important thing is that their life philosophy has been turned upside down. When they return home, everything is the same, but everything is also completely transformed.
Two Must-Read Articles for Everyone Who Wants to Get into Showbiz
No one here at TVWriter™ wrote these two posts, but that’s because we’re not writing anything these days. Still, they’re a very important update on the state of the Industry – especially for writers – these days.
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Lew Ritter: It’s All Your Fault, Larry Brody!
It’s All Your Fault, Larry:
How to Turn a Screenplay into a World Class (I Hope) Novel
by Lew Ritter
You may remember my name. I contributed articles to TVWriter™ from 2015-2017. But I’ll understand if you don’t.
In 2013, before I became a contributor, I wrote a television script called Turbulence and entered it into Larry Brody’s People’s Pilot Contest.
It did well the first time, winding up somewhere in the middle of the scripts submissions, so I made some changes and entered it again. The second time, it received Semi-Finalist status.