Why Structure Is so Important In Your Writing

We hear at TVWriter™ are big fans of Lucy V Hay, so we can think of nothing better to help us wrap up another work week (it is Friday today, yeah?) than to present the following video, with which we agree mightily:

Found on the Bang2write Youtube Channel

Visit Ms. Hay’s blog (you definitely won’t regret it)

It’s Quentin Tarantino Week at TVWriter™ Part 3

It’s Quentin Tarantino Week at TVWriter™ Part 2

As promised yesterday, here’s more writing wisdom and insight from an auteur who actually functions as just that, a genuine auteur.

By which we mean, of course, Quentin Tarantino, who we TVWriter™ minions firmly believes to be honored in any way he can for as long as he can because without Pulp Fiction we never could have survived film school. read article

John Ostrander: And the Award Goes To…

by John Ostrander

So, the nominations for this year’s Academy Awards have been announced and there were a few surprises. A super-hero film, Black Panther, became the first of its kind to be nominated and Netflix landed its first nomination for Best Picture as well and Meryl Streep got nominated as Best Actress. No, wait – Streep wasn’t nominated. That was the surprise. I thought there was some sort of rule she had to be nominated.

I have different levels of interest in the Academy Awards depending on the category but a particular favorite of mine is soundtrack, a.k.a. Original Score. And the nominees this year are:

Black Panther — Ludwig Goransson read article

It’s Quentin Tarantino Week at TVWriter™ Part 1

For reasons that you’ll either already know or, if you don’t, that you’ll never know, Quentin Tarantino is a very Big Deal Screenwriter in addition to being a Very Very Big Deal Film Director and a Very Very Very Big Deal All-Round Film-Maker.

How Big Deal is Mr. Tarantino? Let’s put it this way. We here at TVWriter™ have decided not only to feature his wit and wisdom on our site this week, we’re even going to forgive him for refusing to join the Writers Guild of America – West or East.

Here it is, then, this week’s first appearance by The Big Deal Guy His Very Self, in His Very Own Words about two of our favorite subjects: