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Aaron Sorkin
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Extra! Next TVWriter™ Advanced Workshop Starts May 15th
…And the last time we looked there were 3 places left.
The TVWriter™ Advanced Online TV and Film Writing Workshop is for writers who know the primary elements of script writing – format, story structure, basic characterization – and are now ready to plunge into their own teleplay or screenplay.
This is a 4 week class that meets in our Audio-Video Chat Room on Wednesday evenings. Under the guidance of Our Beloved Boss, Larry Brody, participants (and of course LB) read and comment on each other’s pages in the traditional writers workshop way…except that LB has hella more experience than just about any other workshop leader out there.
WGAW Writer Access Project Update
From the secret, inner sanctumey members only section of the WGAW website.
In other words, we can’t include a URL because if we did we’d have to kill you. Or the WGAW would have to kill us. Or something.
The good news here – and it really is good – is that the WGAW is looking out for new writers. But it’s up to us to get in touch with the guild and learn how to take full advantage.
Invisible Mikey on Blogging, Writing, Creating
How I Blog
by Invisible Mikey
Larry Brody and I are pals. We enjoy each other’s conversation and company. We also enjoy each other’s writing, though we have little in common there except that we get each other’s jokes. Maybe that’s not such a little thing. Larry asked me to write about my “process”, to share with his readers, which is both flattering and amusing. I thought of the Mother Theresa joke. Forgive me if you’ve heard it.
A reporter who was interviewing Mother Theresa asked her if she could have a personal wish fulfilled, what it would be.
“Oh, I would like to see the world at peace.”
“No, I mean something for your personal benefit.”
“Oh, I would like to know that no one anywhere was hungry.”
“No, no, I mean something JUST for you. For you, yourself.”
The revered lady thought silently for a moment…
“Well… I’ve always wanted to direct.”
In Their Own Writ: Henry Miller on Writing
“COMMANDMENTS:
- Work on one thing at a time until finished.
- Start no more new books, add no more new material to ‘Black Spring.’
- Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
- Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
- When you can’t create you can work.
- Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
- Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
- Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
- Discard the Program when you feel like it—but go back to it next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
- Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
- Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.”
Henry Miller
EDITED TO ADD: Speaking of Henry Miller, Maria Popover clues us in on what Miller has to say about another of his favorite topics: PEEING. Yeah, baby.