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Nominees for the 2016 Writers Guild Videogame Writing Awards are:

A pensive character moment from Witcher 3
A pensive character moment from Witcher 3

by Team TVWriter™ Press Service

In case you didn’t believe that the WGA on both coasts is serious about repping video game writers and getting them – among other things – the recognition they deserve:

The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for videogames during 2015. Winners will be honored at the 2016 Writers Guild Awards on Saturday, February 13, at concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York City.

NOMINEES FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN VIDEOGAME WRITING read article

Working the Nostalgia Thing – Pushing Buttons & Tugging Strings

by Diana Black

Screenwriting 101 classes all across the country stipulate, “For the suits to buy your script (the product), it must be brilliantly crafted. They (not just you) must perceive it to be a highly marketable concept entailing a great story with astonishing characters.”

In order to receive such high praise from these folk, who are renowned to have a serious, ‘hard core’ exterior, we need to emotionally ‘move’ them. As in blubbing like babies. After all, we may be highly sensitive and committed artists, but this is a business – for us and the suits. Everyone’s ass is on the line. But if every aspiring writer delivers what we know the suits want, all that does is keep us in the pack, not ahead of it.

So let’s explore possible ways to get ahead with the objective being to generate deep, almost imperceptible emotional responses to our masterpiece. A knowledge and understanding of how to generate nostalgia in subtle and profound ways may be a useful skill component in one’s kit-bag. read article

88th Oscar Screenplay Nominees Announced

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A lot of people think movies are dying, or maybe already dead. We at TVWriter™ are much more into TV than film, regardless of whether we’re watching actual broadcasts on actual TV sets or interweb presentations on our iPads, but the Motion Picture Academy has just released its list of Academy Award nominees for films released in 2015 and we’re passing on the important ones.

So here they are, the not-dead-yet for Best Screenplay. See ’em, read ’em, and learn from ’em, gang: read article

Tyler Perry Tells Us How to Become a Famous Writer

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…And the gist of what he says is, “Put your name in all your titles and write faster than a sumbitch. Here’s what ABC News says he said:

“Very early on when I started doing these plays and live shows I would travel from city to city and there were a million shows out there … so I wanted to step out among it and I started putting my name above the title,” he told a room full of reporters today in New York City. read article

THE VENTURE BROTHERS Returns January 31st

Look! It’s THE VENTURE BROTHERS Season 6 Trailer! With Brock even.

When we say “returns” we don’t mean just a season premiere, oh no. We’re talking that the entire new season will be on Adult Swim starting at midnight, Sunday, January 31st, and continuing for zillions of minutes until we’re totally flooded on the wonderment of what promises to be some of the best writing on TV. read article