40 years worth of TV writing experience and info, yours for the taking.
Found while perusing our absolutely most favorite interweb film site since our last most favorite interweb film site…so you know this is great stuff, yeah?
If you’re a fan of romantic movies you’ve probably wondered if your favourite one can pass the Bechdel test. But what is it?
It’s pretty simple, to pass the Bechdel test means to follow those three rules:
Rumor (should we say “rumour”) has it that UK TV is the best-written television on the planet. Not having seen or read all the TV on Earth (or even in the UK or U.S.) we can’t quite go that far.
UK TV, however, definitely has more than its share of brilliant writers and producers. Here’s what Russell T. Davies, Nicola Shindler, Julian Fellowes, Steven Moffat and others we believe are the best of the best have to say about TV today:
Character names!
They’re more important than most people readers and viewers think, as pretty much every writer in every genre and type of writing knows. If you, as a writer, DON’T know that, then it’s time to step back and ponder.
The origin of language in 3 minutes and 42 seconds. Thanks to the pure genius of Etymologist Extraordinaire Arika Okrent. Ponder this, dear friends, please:
EDITOR’S NOTE: If you haven’t already read Part 1, now would be a good time.
Let’s say you now have a motley crew with which to flesh out the story world… the latter can be achieved via the seemingly almost magical ‘What If’ – an outline/description of all the aspects of the story world you’re creating.