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Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios are now trawling through podcasts looking for new content and talent.
The only element in this article that’s even more appealing than its immense helpfulness is its warm, moving candor. The writer, Andrea Jarrell, now has several more big fans – LB and the rest of us here at TVWriter™. Here’s why:
Given that I published my first book at age 55, some might call me a late-blooming author. I am. But not because I suddenly discovered writing and decided to write a book. I am a late bloomer because I finally stopped sabotaging myself and did the work needed to realize life-long ambitions.
Writing books is all I ever wanted to do. Yet, for many years, I wore my writing dream like a costume—acting the part but never really committing to the work. Throughout my childhood, teens and 20s, I might have looked like someone working for her dream: sending earnest poems to teen magazines and entering contests, majoring in the right subjects, founding student publications, and working in New York City publishing jobs.
What’s it like to be a trending new writer? We like this self-examination of one new “killing it” writer’s perspective.
“You’re on fire!”
“Rockstar!”
“You’re killing it!”
A quick guide to what you need to include in the bible for your next spec series, whether it be on broadcast TV, cable TV, the web, or anyplace else where you need to prove that you’ve touched (as in gently messaged) all the right notes.
Found on bang2write.com, a site loaded with helpful info and writerly insight.
In this installment of her web series writing tips, Stephanie Bourbon hits us with one of the most important – yet little known – elements successful TV and film writers use – writing from the POV of the actors who will be saying our words. And guess what? It works for writing fiction intended for publication as well.
That’s right, kids, actors are more than a necessary evil. They’re the reason TV and film writers exist, and, to quote a wonderful line from a wonderful stage play, “Attention must be paid!”