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Think you know how writers make money? Frankly, you might know some of the ways, but Nathan Bransford, author of the Jacob Wonderbar series absolutely nails it, and certainly opened this TVWriter™ minion’s eyes wider than I ever would have thought possible.
Yes, yes, we all want to write books that move people and change the world. But, uh, how exactly do authors get paid? Read on, friends. Here’s how authors make money.
Stephanie Bourbon is the most watchable writing guru on YouTube today…and her tips are solid, helpful, and mostly painless as well. Don’t believe us? Take an eight and a half minute look and learn what you need.
At last! A click bait headline we can get behind. More than get behind, actually. This TVWriter™ minion wishes she’d written it…because I totally agree with what Lucy V Hay has to say here:
Grammar purists have always nestled like alabama ticks in every dark corner of the internet. In the past year or so, they seem to be everywhere! These guys police statuses, tweets, threads and then call those out they feel are ‘unacceptable’. (Why anyone who doesn’t like colloquial speak online would follow a platform like B2W, I have no idea. Some people are their own worst enemy, yet point fingers at others as being ‘the problem’. Le sigh).
Here it is, the most open, honest, and absolutely essential article we’ve ever seen about how Hollywood show business really works. Brace yourselves, gang!
I had a professor who worked on the show Prison Break and I went to visit him on the set one year. I was on the call sheet! Intern. First day of the shoot, my professor, the director of the episode that week, asked for me to get him a “coffee.”
All right. Coffee. Um…I don’t drink coffee. Nor did I at the time. My past experience with coffee was nil. Perhaps if I had thrown it down my gullet in high school, I could have elevated to a loftier university than Arizona State, but I digress.
Back to basics because if you don’t have the vocabulary of the Industry, how can you write for it?
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