It’s Quentin Tarantino Week at TVWriter™ Part 4

Why Structure Is so Important In Your Writing

We hear at TVWriter™ are big fans of Lucy V Hay, so we can think of nothing better to help us wrap up another work week (it is Friday today, yeah?) than to present the following video, with which we agree mightily:

Found on the Bang2write Youtube Channel

Visit Ms. Hay’s blog (you definitely won’t regret it)

Marty Scorsese on What Makes a Great Screenplay?

THE BIG SHAVE by Scorsese AKA the best student film ever made

Let’s face it, “What makes a great screenplay?” is flat out the question all writers need answered. (Not the same as “want answered” because that question would be, “How do I get an agent?”

For the record, our answer to the agent question is, “Talk to your friends who are agented and see if they recommend theirs…and make sure their reason is that, “They’re selling me and my work!”

As for the great screenplay answer, well, who better to hear from on this matter than the writer/director/critic who has given us so many of them? Take it away, Mr. Scorsese: read article

It’s Quentin Tarantino Week at TVWriter™ Part 3

It’s Quentin Tarantino Week at TVWriter™ Part 2

As promised yesterday, here’s more writing wisdom and insight from an auteur who actually functions as just that, a genuine auteur.

By which we mean, of course, Quentin Tarantino, who we TVWriter™ minions firmly believes to be honored in any way he can for as long as he can because without Pulp Fiction we never could have survived film school. read article