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Our fave writer-illustrator-screenwriting-vlogger, Stephanie Bourbon, loves it so much that she has a total of 5 different videos about writing for the contest. has a treat for us.
We posted two of them last week. Now we’ve not not one, not two, but three more videos about the interwebs’ favorite writing, National Novel Writing Month.
A mighty fine case history if ever there was one. For anybody who dreams of selling a TV series:
In Apple TV+’s “Truth Be Told,” Octavia Spencer plays Poppy Parnell, a true-crime podcaster who is compelled to reopen the murder case that made her a national sensation and comes face to face with the man she may have mistakenly helped to put behind bars. Relitigating the murder case via her podcast, Parnell contends with nearly 20 years of family secrets, deceit, and the San Francisco Bay Area’s powerful in order to get to the truth.
Mark Evanier, one of the biggest writing talents in TV, comic books, and blogging has been writing a series of articles on the subject of rejection as faced by all creative people.
Here’s Mark’s latest installment on the subject. (To be precise, it’s Part 25):
Indie Film HUSTLE has done us all a solid with this very, very helpful list of Oscar contending screenplays:
The latest helpful guide to screenplay and teleplay writing from our friends at Script Reader Pro:
If there’s so much information out there on how to craft the perfect three-act structure, why is it so hard to put it into practice in your own script? Why is it so difficult to know how the hell to fill those 50-60 pages in Act Two?