So tell us, know-it-alls (you know who you are) did you know this?
Memo to selves: Great talent does not necessarily a great project – or even a so-so collaboration – make.
Category: screenwriting
What is a Spec Script? and How to Write One
Back to basics because if you don’t have the vocabulary of the Industry, how can you write for it?
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Writing advice that sucks
Bad advice for writers is everywhere, but this article by Jason Hellerman sums it up – or should we say “pins it down?” – perfectly.
5 Instances of Terrible Writing Advice [w/Lessons from Each]
by Jason Hellerman
Tell me if this rings a bell, you’re attending a screenwriting seminar, listening to a lecture, or getting notes from someone, and they lean in and tell you they have a piece of advice. After hearing it, you shake your head. You feel a little worse off than you started, and you’re not sure what to do next.
Terrible writing advice is all around us. Bad writing advice comes from many sources. We hear it in blogs, podcasts, and all over Social Media.
Madman, Architect, Carpenter, Judge: Roles and the Writing Process
Time now for a solidly thoughtful and genuinely helpful article about something we all need help with from time to time – how to overcome all the usual articles and not only start writing something you love but keep going all the way to the finish.
Oh, and it’s also solidly and so darn civilly written that alone has made us smile since we first saw it. Our thanks to Betty Flowers, former Director of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, and to Michelle Gordon, who first brought this to our attention.
Yo, Screenwriters! Ready to “Write Your Bills Away?”
SoCreate, a new screenwriting site based in San Luis Obispo, CA, with a website addy that kind of implies it’s in Italy, is “working on a new way for people of all ages to transform their amazing stories into scripts.”
We aren’t clear on what this new way is because the site itself doesn’t say much more than that…oh, and also “We’re Hiring!” which is something we always like to read or hear, but theannouncement below definitely has gotten our attention.