Bri Castellini: Out – @brisownworld

LB’S NOTE: It takes four qualities to be a true artist:

  • You need to speak the truth.
  • You need the courage to expose your inner self.
  • You need talent.
  • You need craft

In this piece, Bri Castellini proves she’s got it all.

by Bri Castellini

“Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”  Ode on a Grecian Urn

I don’t know how to write about sexuality. I absolutely don’t know how to write about mine. Because for most of my life, and all of my dating life, I was, for all intents and purposes, a heterosexual woman. read article

Writers Guild of America West Still Working for Net Neutrality

by TVWriter™ Press Service

From the WGAW’s lips to the FCC’s ears. The image is difficult to read, we know, so here’s the statement again:

Contact: Gregg Mitchell (323) 782-4651

Los Angeles – The Writers Guild of America West has issued the following statement on joining advocacy organizations to file an intervenor brief to reinstate net neutrality: read article

Bri Castellini: Sam and Pat Have Many More Friends Now – @brisownworld

by Bri Castellini

[Last week we] wrapped principal production on Sam and Pat Are Depressed season 2 today, almost exactly a year after we wrapped production on season 1, and I can’t quite wrap my head around that feat. We shot 48 pages of script in 4 days, which, for those of you outside the film industry, is “bananas,” to quote my DP Conor.

We hit 100% on our little Seed&Spark campaign in 15 hours, then eventually hit 253%, which allowed us to splurge on things like more food for cast/crew on shoot dates, production design, wardrobe, and more. This season looks fricking incredible, and it’s because of this little community we’ve built, of friends new and old, and I’m so beyond grateful. As is common when I finish productions, this is a thank you blog. read article

Self-Editing for Fun, Profit, and Because It Annoys Your Know-It-All Writing Teacher

Speaking of editing your own work, as we were earlier in the week:

How to Be a Better, More Efficient Editor of Your Own Writing by Annie Mueller

You need to edit your work even if you’re working with the world’s best editor. Especially if you’re working with the world’s best editor. Submit your best version?—?proofed and polished?—?and watch as the world’s best editor tears it apart. read article

Why Writers Should Take Acting Lessons and Actors Should Write

Actors and writers share a common purpose, do we not, that of communications?

Specifically, it’s up to the writers to communicate character and story via text and subtext, and it’s up to the actors to bring the text and subtext alive for the audience.

And yet – there are so many conflicts between the two subdivisions (for lack of a better name) throughout pre-production, production, and post-production of every TV episode and film that sometimes it seems impossible for both writers and actors to share the same goal… read article