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Arika Okrent, the world’s pithiest grammarian, is back with the answer to a question that’s on the mind of every writer, new, old, and in-between. Or maybe almost every one of them anyway especially if they watch all the versions of the lives of Queens Elizabeth I and II and Victoria now available just about everyplace that streams.
This one’s a little longer than most of Akira’s posts, with a playing time of almost 4 minutes. But it’s a fascinating 4 minutes. For reals.
Ever get that feeling that the rest of the world knows something you don’t? And what they know is about your absolute passion of passions?
That’s the feeling we got when we stumbled onto the YouTube Channel of – Georgiana. We haven’t seen the Georgiana web series yet because we’ve been too busy watching the most entertaining instructional videos since, yeah, the last most entertaining instructional videos we saw.
In other words, even our B(eloved) L(eader) L(arry)B(rody), who’s done a fair amount of animation work in his lifetime, was immediately astounded by what we’re about to show you.
One of our favorite sites is that of The Bitter Script Reader on blogspot. Dood describes himself as “a Hollywood script reader tired of seeing screenwriters make the same mistakes, saving the world from bad writing one screenplay at a time.
Last Fall, however, he wrote one of his best posts ever, and it applies to a whole season’s worth of TV. Time now for all new, soon-to-be-hot writers to settle back in big, padded, overpriced but amazingly comfortable gaming chairs and read the wisdom:
If you’ve been paying attention on this site, you know how big Audio Drama is getting. I’ve had five scripts produced and have produced two myself with another ten in the stack promised to producers. Right now audio drama is pretty much the Wild West of the entertainment industry. Even more so than web series, for reasons that will become apparent.
The easiest way to break in (at least, it was pretty easy for me) is to be a Writer-Producer. Writing scripts and sending them out to producers is one way to do it, but most producers are already buried under production schedules of what they currently have.
One of the most frequently asked questions here at TVWriter™ is, “What’s up with bibles?” As in, “I keep hearing that to get anybody interested in my TV series idea I have to write down what it’s all about? Is that for real…cuz whoa, it sounds hard.”
Well, it is hard. Hard enough so that the process takes up a big chunk of LB’s sorta, kinda well-known book Television Writing from the Inside Out, which if you haven’t yet read or bought you really should so check that out HERE.
But if you aren’t sure you want to pop for five bucks – and in these strange times who can blame any of us for not being sure about anything? – here’s an excellent – and short – intro to the whole process we came across recently. So: