40 years worth of TV writing experience and info, yours for the taking.
Sure, you’ve watched J. Michael Straczynski’s groundbreaking TV series Babylon 5, and odds are you’ve loved it because groundbreaking, you know? But do you know what it took to get this sucker on the air?
Sit back, click below, and – to quote from another popular s-f TV series – “all will be revealed.” Well, almost all. Enjoy, fans and future TV series creators, enjoy!
This is just one of the well-made and often fascinating videos available on Al Schlicher’s Vimeo channel.
Grammarcheck.Net and Jennifer Frost continue to delight us with helpful tips for writers of all media. Here’s the latest example.
Nathan Bransford, TVWriter™’s favorite publishing know-it-all has a video for us this week, in which he reaches out to his fave book-marketing expert David Gaughran.
So sit back, relax, and watch this scintillating discussion of why and how you should use digital ads to reach new readers and other (and slightly less daunting) SEO topics.
LB’S NOTE: As of this particular moment (as opposed to that non-particular moment, I suppose), Caimh McDonnell (“comedian, writer, Irishman,” as his blog tells all who discover it) is my favorite novelist because of his ability to make genre detective stories read like literary fiction.
So imagine my surprise when I discovered that his skill is about as far from accidental as can be. Dood not only knows exactly what he’s doing, he’s happy to share that knowledge with the rest of us grunts.
So listen, listen good. No, not with your ears. He’s a writer, dammit, not an AI voice. Anyway:
Writer-illustrator-vlogger-blogger, Stephanie Bourbon, has some helpful hints about characterization. Check ’em out right here.
I have a great blog today that will help you if you are writing any story that has characters—-so ALL of you!!