Yeah, us too. So we’re really excited that Rich Drees of FilmBuffOnline.Com has put together a list, complete with links. And, yeppers, we’re stealing the links:
AFFRM
Middle Of Nowhere
And Now, the WGA’s New Year’s Message
Yesterday, we reported on a couple of the specifics in this Writers Guild of America, West e-mail to members. Now we bring you – wow! – the whole thing:
Fellow Members,
munchman Watches ADVENTURE TIME
by munchman
For those who have lives, ADVENTURE TIME is the latest very hip and very trendy hipsters-love-it cartoon on Cartoon Network. It’s created by a guy name Pendleton Ward and has made him immeasurably famous to an equally immeasurable number of young adults who, you know, have never seen a good cartoon and wouldn’t know it even if they did.
I watched a lifetime’s worth of ADVENTURE TIME last night. Which is to say that it felt like a lifetime but its real time added up to about 10 mind-and-body-numbing minutes. Which, I suppose, is moderately better than excruciating minutes, but still…
Why You Should Always Write What You Believe In
…And get it out there. Anywhere and everywhere. Any way and every way. Cuz this is a wonderful case in point:
That time travel movie that started on Reddit is really getting made!
by Meredith Woerner
Rome Sweet Rome, the story about a gaggle of U.S. Marines who find themselves transported back in time and pitted against the might of Rome, started out as a question on Reddit: “Could I destroy the entire Roman Empire during the reign of Augustus if I traveled back in time with a modern U.S. Marine infantry battalion or MEU?” This question sparked James Erwin’s story and garnered a crap load of readers.
How to Write with Style
Hey, if anybody knows it’s Kurt Vonnegut. So:
How to Write with Style: Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Keys to the Power of the Written Word
by Maria Popova
Kurt Vonnegut has given us some of the most timeless advice on the art and craft of writing — from his 8 rules for a great story to his insights on the shapes of stories to his formidable daily routine. But hardly anything examines the subject with a more potent blend of practical advice and heart than Vonnegut’s 1985 essay“How to Write with Style,” published in the wonderful anthology How to Use the Power of the Printed Word (UK; public library).