40 years worth of TV writing experience and info, yours for the taking.
When the dood’s right, he’s right:
by Ken Levine (from Ken’s Stupendous Blog)
Most of the real creativity in Hollywood goes into positive spin. Here are some industry expressions and what they really mean:
“Hospitalized because the actor was simply feeling dizzy due to a medication he was taking for an ear infection” – drunk
Found on the interwebs.
“Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.”
Octavia Butler
You should. It’s put out by the Writers Guild of America, West, and is chock full of insight into film and TV writing. And, of course, witty as all hell.
Its web version is also, technically as well as informationally, the best online mag ever. So we oh-so respectfully suggest you CLICK HERE.
Yeah, she’s 26 years old and just sold a kind of memoir/advice book for a fucking fortune. But we love Lena anyway because…um, because…we think we have a shot at her, that’s why. Right. Yeah.
Actually, this is one of the best book proposals we’ve ever seen, with “best” described as “it sure as hell got my attention and looks like it’ll be fascinating to its intended audience.”
Download Lena Dunham’s book proposal or read it online atScribd.Com
…Because not only is he an e-book publisher, he also has a new book about the past, present, and future of the publishing business – APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur-How to Publish a Book – on Kindle. So he knows:
In 2011, the publisher of my book Enchantment could not fill an order for 500 e-book copies. Because of this experience, I self-published my next book, What the Plus!, and learned first hand that self-publishing is a complex, confusing, and idiosyncratic process. An obvious sign of self-publishing is the presence of gaffes—unintentional mistakes that cause embarrassment—in a book. It’s easy for authors to make these mistakes because editing, particularly copy editing, is a different skill from writing. Whether you’re self-publishing a novel, writing a blog, or typing a term paper, here are the ten gaffes I’ve come across most often and how to avoid them.