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TVWriter™’s longstanding friend, Angelo Bell, has been having some meetings lately and wants us all to know what they’re like:
Monday I returned home after a visit to the NBC-Universal Lot. Building 1230 to be exact.
That makes 2 visits to the building in 4 months, to be really exact.
Believe it or not, even LB, our boss, agrees with what follows, even if it is from Writers Digest:
by Brian Klems (Writers Digest)
It will happen eventually—that moment when you realize you’re bogged down in the muck of your story. You don’t know where to go next or what the character should do. The seed of doubt sprouts then, unless you’re careful, will take root and bloom into full-on writer’s block. Here are suggestions on how to stop it—and make your story even stronger in the process.
1. Give your readers what they want, but not what they expect.
There’s a difference between “good writing” and a “good book” or “good script.” Nathan Bransford gets it:
by Nathan Bransford
One thing about my Fifty Shades of Grey post that inspired some mild controversy was my insistence that it’s not that badly written.
You’ve heard/read this before and will hear/read it again, but did you know that this, the single most important thing you can keep in mind while writing anything, came from a guy who called himself “Q?”
His full name was Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, editor of, as Wikipedia puts it, “the monumental Oxford Book of English Verse…” among many other things, and if anyone ever knew a thing or two about brevity, Q was the one.
Or, as he put it so famously (and perfectly):
…To which we can only say – gulp – “Amen:”
by Charlie Jane Anders
Guillermo del Toro has directed some of the coolest movies of the past decade or so, including Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy, plus the upcoming monster/robot smackdown Pacific Rim. But he’s also gotten into producing animated films for kids, including Kung-Fu Panda and the upcoming Rise of the Guardians.