15 Grammar Rules It’s Okay to Break (Infographic)

Experteditor.Com brings us this helpful infographic about grammar rules it’s perfectly cool for all of us to break.

Alternate title: YAY!

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7 Ways to get Freelance Clients in 2021

We like the idea of regarding the clients as freelancers instead of looking at ourselves that way. After all, we’re the human beings who are continuously working with (never say “for!”) our clients, right?

Just our way of saying “Hold your head high!” while you read on.

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Don’t start a scene without these four essential elements

Nathan Bransford, TVWriter™’s favorite publishing know-it-all, gives us advice that most writers for all media and genres desperately need. This time around he talks about the importance of properly setting your scene

by Nathan Bransford

Writers often don’t pay quite enough attention to how they start their chapters. read article

How to Get a Movie on Netflix

A helpful guide the title of which we’d like to add one word because even the best laid plans of writers and their minions sometimes don’t work. That word, which our lawyers also have suggested, is “Maybe.” Good luck!

 by Matt Jacobs
via Filmmaking Lifestyle

Nowadays, more and more people spend huge amounts of their time watching movies and TV shows on Netflix. read article

Stephanie Bourbon: Legally Blonde-the perfect romantic comedy

LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, demonstrates her amazing perspicacity by writing about a script co-written by Karen McCullah & Kirsten Smith.

I use the word “Perspicacity” without hesitation because way back in the early 1990s, Karen was one of my original TV & Screenwriting Workshop members when I conducted them at The College of Santa Fe. She had that very special something that inspired me to recommend her to my late friend, producer-director  Paul Junger Witt, who hired her for her first professional TV writing gig in the mid-’90s.

OMG! I’m so old! read article