Category: Productivity

The Indie Film Making Bug Just Keeps On, erm, Biting?!

What’s that, you say? You’ve been bitten by the Hollywood bug but don’t know what to do about it? Guess what, pally – you aren’t alone.

The need to create and have our creations seen by an audience is universal here at TVWriter™. In fact, it’s even spread to LB’s current living environment, the peninsulas along Puget Sound:

Erich Cannon (left) and Nathan Lee (second from right) with “Fall City” stars Meranda Long and Dashiell Wolf.

North Kitsap grads go Hollywood
by Michael C. More

When Erich Cannon and Nathan Lee embarked on their first feature-film project together, they might well have been excused for setting it in the North Kitsap environs where they both grew up. read article

How to Emotionally Detach from Criticism

Speaking of bad reviews, as we were below, here’s a broader take on dealing with criticism of all types because let’s face it, not only do sensitive writers take a pounding from time, so does everybody else:

by Beth Skwarecki

Young Houdini shows how detached he is!

You’ll never make everybody happy—and the people that aren’t happy are liable to tell you why. Criticism is part of the price of being human. But even though we know that, it’s hard to deal when the negative stuff starts rolling in. Share an opinion on the internet—or just report some inconvenient facts (ask me how I know)—and you may have hordes of people telling you what a bad person you are. Here’s how to stop criticism from ruining your day.

Accept That It Will Happen

The only way to totally avoid criticism is to simply not let anybody find out that you exist. As soon as you start putting your face, name, writing, or actions out into the world, people will have opinions about you. Nobody, no matter how wildly successful, is universally beloved. Haters gonna hate. read article

Five Ways to Triumph Over Really Rotten Book Reviews

Criticism hurts. Especially public criticism. But let’s be frank here, shall we? Public criticism is part of the writer’s life. Bad reviews happen all the time, and learning how to survive the pain is part of the game.

Here are a few tips on how to deal constructively with every writer’s nightmare – critics who give us bad, bad, really bad reviews:

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Why The More Successful Writers Fail The Most

Now this is a truly interesting – insightful even – article. Read this one closely, kids. It’s your futures that are on the line:

by Lucy V Hay

Successful Writers

Sometimes, we meet/discover a writer who is super successful.  We think they must have been super lucky, too. Right place, right time and all that. If only we were so lucky! read article

How to Network When Meeting People Totally Stresses You Out

Or, to put the headline another way: Networking for Writers & Others of Our, um, Ilk. Yeah, that’s it. We’re all ilkmates under the skin, amIright?

How to Network When In-Person Contact Stresses You Out
by Aimee Lutkin

Talking to strangers in a crowded room where everyone wants something from each other is a true nightmare, and at times it’s the most direct path to career development. But there is another way to network—from behind a computer screen. read article