Antoine Fuqua Wants To Help Get Your Film Project Made

by TVWriter™ Press Service

Director Antoine Fuqua, whose films include Training Day, Tears of the Sun, and Olympus has Fallen as well as a ton of very well-done others, is making a new name for himself as an online mentor and teacher.

Fuqua’s website, aptly named antoinefuqafilms.com, shows just three pages in addition to the Home Page. read article

The World’s Most Comfy Pop Music Festival

LB’S NOTE: How about we call this a “time out for a personal moment”moment? The Seattle Times knows the deep but not at all dirty secret of my current place of residence. Not that Port Townsend, WA tries to hide it. Oh no! Port Townsend just plain doesn’t hide anything.

THING review: How successful was the first year of the intimate festival created by the founder of Sasquatch?
by Michael Rietmulder

Jeff Tweedy got his cantaloupe, all right. read article

Everything You Need to Know About Screenwriting – via Judge Parker

Looks to us like Francesco Marciuliano, writer of the syndicated comic strip Judge Parker, has his eye on the Big Prize – a moneymaking screenplay, reality be damned.

Or is it just us? What do you think?

Speaking of Labor Day

TVWriter™ is taking the day off today, not only because we believe all working people deserve to:

  • BE SHOWN APPRECIATION FOR ALL THEY DO
  • ENJOY A DAY OF REST

But also because we believe that the American labor union movement itself is something to be appreciated, supported, and when you get right down to it, cherished.

LEARN MORE ABOUT LABOR MOVEMENT AND ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT HERE

We’ll be back tomorrow with our usual beginning-of-the-week fare, but in the meantime, here are some recent TVWriter™ posts we think you’ll like. read article

Pretentious Words All Writers Need to Eschew

Pretentious words automatically make it appear that the writer is talking down to readers, creating an instant sense of alienation. Luckily, the folks at Grammarcheck.Net are here to set us all straight.

BIG THANKS TO GRAMMARCHECK