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From novelist Peggy Bechko’s uberhelpful blog:
Writer – Tell Your Readers Only What They Need To Know! – by Peggy Bechko (from Peggy’s blog)
As writers, it’s good for us to think a bit about how the brain works and what it’s really looking for in many things, but for us the important issue is what does it want from a story?
This is brilliant:
John Ostrander: How I Learned to Write – by John Ostrander (Comic Mix)
One of the pleasures of the Internet and of Facebook in particular is that sometimes old friends find you or you find them and you get a chance to re-establish old bonds. One such for me is David Downs who I knew in my Loyola University theater days. Recently, he was asking about my writing and about writing plays and I realized – by Gum! – there was a column in it. Thanks, David!
As creators become ever more connected to the people responsible to bringing that work to light – from producers to fans – we must deal head on with the process of collaboration. Every software interface seems designed to put us in communication with our peers and our idols. Even celebrities are jumping on the crowdfunding bandwagon to fund passion projects. There has never been a better time to get a team of people working on your ideas.
Many of us writer-folk tend to shudder away from the idea of collaboration because we want to protect our ideas until the “right person” comes along to lift us from obscurity and place us on the Oscar podium where we belong. And yet there is little evidence to support the notion that great work is made a vacuum. Reading the autobiographies of those who have succeeded in the biz, it’s impossible not to notice the formula:
Meet Someone + Work Together = Meet More People + Work Together + (repeat until sickeningly wealthy and famous).
…And they can, you know. Take our main goal, that of total world domination. Sure makes it hard to slog to our day job, y’all.
Are Your Goals Holding You Back? – by Dan Shipper
“Media Design School’s zombie romance ROTTING HILL is invading film festivals across the globe like an epidemic.”
Believe it or not, that isn’t our line, it’s the heading on a press release for a short film fully titled “ROTTING HILL: TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES.” Its makers go on to describe it thusly on their website:
Welcome to Rotting Hill, where a young couple embarking on a new relationship is about to discover that the path to true love is never what it seems. A CGI-Live Action Zombie Romantic Comedy from a team of seven digital artists studying Media Design School’s Advanced 3D Productions.