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Self-Sabotage 101
AKA: Our Inner Depths Don’t Always Help Our Outer Reaches; or ‘It’s All In Your Mind, Dude’
How Our Brains Stop Us Achieving Our Goals and How to Fight Back – by Gregory Ciotti
As admittedly wonderful and fascinating as the human brain is, it definitely can feel like our brain is out to get us sometimes.
Want to Turn Your Book into a TV Series? Be Published by Random House
Okay, so not really a guarantee, but get your novel to ’em pronto. It’s a start…
FREMANTLEMEDIA & RANDOM HOUSE FORM EXCLUSIVE TELEVISION PARTNERSHIP – by TeamTVWriter Press Service
FremantleMedia, the producer and distributor of several of the world’s most widely-watched television series, and Random House, Inc., the U.S. division of Random House, the world’s largest trade-book publisher, both companies of Bertelsmann AG, announced today a major new creative and strategic partnership to develop scripted television programming for the U.S. and international markets based on the fiction and nonfiction books published by Random House’s imprints in North America and internationally.
The first-look deal with FremantleMedia will reside within Random House Television, a newly created part of Random House Studio, the publisher’s rebranded and expanded entertainment division led by Peter Gethers, President. Random House Television will work together with Random House’s editors and publishers, and their authors’ agents, to identify and acquire performance rights for the full range of broadcast network, cable, and premium television scripted formats.
Want to Kickstart Your Teleplay or Video? Try This Strategy
Of course, it turns out to be what every salesman has to do in every medium because, dammit, there really aren’t any shortcuts, are there?
How I Launched a Successful Kickstarter Campaign – by Sarah Gilbert
“You can always back out,” a dear friend who had successfully completed a few Kickstarter campaigns told me a few days into my own campaign. “You just have such a short timeline.”
Need Some Solid Advice About Networking?
Trying to get your writing/producing/TV/film career going? The article below is about a web start-up, but the writer’s advice applies just about everywhere:
Make Friends Not Contacts by Jimmy Jacobson
I’m from Vegas, but I found myself on a street corner in NYC early one morning with 40 other hackers and entrepreneurs. We were about to get on a bus sponsored by Twilio, Sendgrid and Microsoft to attend the Startup Festival in Montreal. Nervous excitement crackled in the air as introductions were made, pitches and business cards were prematurely swapped and tweetable hashtags for the trip were discussed.