The Hollywood Reporter comes up with a winning table. And the discussion ain’t bad either. (But why do the men outnumber the women five to one? Asking for a friend.)
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Stephanie Bourbon Resetting Yourself – Body & Soul
LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, reminds us of the importance of having great villains in our stories and how to create them.
by Stephanie Bourbon
How are you doing? I’m doing amazing and guess what? I have NO INTERNET THIS WEEK and it feels great.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Stage Directions for the Screen
We admit it. We first discovered this extremely well done article via TVWriter™’s Writing & Showbiz Tips from Around the InterWebs page. Immediately, we realized it was just the sort of thing we should have commissions and published ourselves.
In other words, Industrial Scripts.Com has done the TV & film writing worlds a true “mitzvah” with this, and we hope that if you missed it last week you’ll start reading right here and click on to continue to the end.
Larry Brody’s TV Writing Tips & Tricks #9
Raising the Tension!
by Larry Brody
A story can’t maintain reader or viewer interest if it doesn’t build. In other words, to stay interesting it has to become MORE interesting.
Upward and onward should be your catch phrase, in the sense that the tension has to increase as you race to your climax. (No double entendre intended.)
Stephanie Bourbon on Creating Cool Villains
LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, reminds us of the importance of having great villains in our stories and how to create them.
by Stephanie Bourbon
I love me some villains, well the good ones, the well written, well thought out villains who are bad for a reason. Now, that reason probably doesn’t make much sense to you and me because we are not villains but to them it is their WHY!