Top TVWriter™ Posts for the Week Ending 12/7/12

Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts for the week ending Friday, December 7th:

How To Create an Anti-Hero read article

The One Film Every New TV Writer Must See

…And it wouldn’t hurt the film types either.

Some showrunner type you may have heard of – Damon Lindelof of LOST

If you want to know what it’s really like to toil in the diamond mines of episodic television, run, do not walk, to SHOWRUNNERS, a documentary that tells the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Directed by Des Doyle, the full-length film features the most powerful cast of superstar TV showrunners this side of, oh, Venus, including: read article

The Doctor Puppet in Brooklyn! Wearing a Scarf!

And you can see it right here:

See more of the Doctor Puppet. C’mon, we dares ya!

Hey, we didn’t say this was important or even meaningful. We just think it’s, you know, cute.

How Do I Pitch an Idea That Actually Gets Heard?

Glad you asked:

by Adam Dachis

Dear Lifehacker,
I have good, sometimes great ideas from time to time but I don’t really know how to get anyone to listen. Usually I start and I can see there attention fade away after a few minutes. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, or how to keep people interested. What can I do to make my pitches more interesting and get people to actually listen to them? read article