Leesa Dean: Adventures of a Web Series Newbie

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by Leesa Dean

So. As promised, the Rollo Pep Talk.

We met at a tiny Turkish restaurant/bar in the East Village. Ordered cocktails (I sure needed one after spending time visiting my friend in Bellevue) and Rollo started talking.

He had hit rock bottom professionally. His deal, which was tenuous at best, had finally fallen apart. It was an enormous blow to his ego. I mean, this was a guy who ten, fifteen years earlier had been a player. Maybe not a huge one, but a player nonetheless. But time had partially eroded his connections and unless you’re active doing stuff that people know about, you’re dead to them, professionally. read article

Peggy Bechko: eBooks and The Reader and Writer

by Peggy Bechko

kindleHey, I’ll bet you already knew or guessed that Ebooks are changing reading habits all over the place. It’s sort of a tidal wave and I spotted an article onUSA Today  printed just this month that confirms it with statistics. (We all love statistics, right?)

Numbers, percentages?

All that’s great, but what it all boils down to is the simple fact that more people are reading (wow, Is that great or what?!), more people are writing, more people own EReading devices and the ways in which they discover their reading materials are changing as well. Fewer people prowling the aisles in bookstores (probably not so good for the bookstores and we sure want to keep them). More people learning about books at places such as Goodreads.com, Amazon.com, local libraries who ‘lend’ digital editions and other locations (good for Ecommerce). read article

Ken Levine on what spec sitcom you should write

Cuz he knows.

Down to his tippy toes.

Huzzah for Ken Levine! read article

TVWriter™ Top Posts for the Week Ending 11/1/13

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Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts for the past week:

Peggy Bechko: “Anyone With an Internet Connection Isn’t Writing Good Fiction?” Wha–? read article

Why Character Names are So Important

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We’ve posted a lot about naming your characters. (In fact, Peggy Bechko’s column on the subject was hugely popular here on TVWriter™ just last week.) And there’s a reason for that.

In modern culture, the first thing we do when we meet somebody is ask, “What do you do?” Because when we like to think that knowing the kind of work a person does enables us to actually know the person as well. read article