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6 Tips for Getting Your Web Series Off the Ground

There doesn’t breathe a one of us crazy, zany TV-lovin’ writers who doesn’t want to get her or his own web series up and running and viraling and garnering shit-tons of professional attention from executives, producers, agents, and future lovers, so here we are with the web series how-to of, oh, at least the week:

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by Maddy Kadish

For indie filmmakers, the challenges of creating a web series may be the same as for a short or feature – slim funding, a crowded market, difficulties in building an audience and limited path for pricing models. But digital content has its own set of demands and requirements. read article

Crowd Sourcing: How It Really Feels to Get Kickstarted

At last! A Kickstartee (?) comes forward to tell us what the crowd funding experience is really like. Not for the squeamish, nosirree:

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by Marc Alan Fishman

I freely admit that I am 33 years of age and have never been drunk, high, or anything more than over-tired. But over the last 33 days I’ve experienced inebriation in all its stereotypical stages – if only by proxy – as I managed what I can now declare as a successful crowdfunding campaign.

No, I didn’t drink any alcohol, smoke, toke, or shoot any whim-wham-wozzle into my ding-a-ling. I merely held my breath for 33 days as I watched 155 people trickle in to support Unshaven Comics as we embarked on collecting together our first independently published graphic novel. I’m somewhere between hugging the toilet and declaring how I love you all. read article

Larry Brody Answers – Do You Need a “Bible” to Sell Your Series to a Network?

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Time now to answer a question because now’s when I’ve got the time:

CB wants to know:

Hi Larry. Do you have any bibles for recent one-hour drama series? I actually have a producer interested in a contest winning series pilot…but she wants a ‘traditional series bible’ as opposed to the 9-page summary I’ve done. I have the bible for Lost, which is really a guide for staff writers, and she says that should not be used. read article

Peggy Bechko on “Human Needs & Story Conflict”

by Peggy Bechko

funny_basic_human_needsAs writers of fiction, whether on the page or for film or stage, we all know we need conflict in a story. Simply put, no conflict, no story. We’ve all heard that, right?

And it’s true, I’m not going to start to be all original and tell you it isn’t. But the question arises then, what is at the heart of conflict? Your hero or heroine must have a goal. And that goal has to be an integral part of the plot.

So how does that work? Well us humans have some very basic needs and desires. For example. The very most basic need is food to eat, air to breathe, clothes to cover us, warmth (i.e a roof over our heads) to keep us from freezing and so on. That’s the very nitty gritty. read article

Cannabis Journalism – the Ultimate Writing Class

This made our weekend. Probably for the wrong reason, but still….

Thank you, CBS Denver