One of our fave writer-illustrator-screenwriting-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, tells us all that we need to know about genre writing. Yeppers, really, kids, it’s right here!
Hello, Dear Writers!
Listen up, gang. The ability to understand the thoughts behind notes you get from producers and agents is critical for TV and film writing success. In this article, Lucy V Hay helps you – us, actually – how to navigate through this most dangerous swamp.
Screenplay notes … Love them or hate ’em, we need ‘em! It’s a fact that rewriting your screenplay or television pilot is an absolutely essential part of the successful process of perfecting story, character, structure, tone and theme.
Back in July of 2018 we republished Script Reader Pro’s analysis of the five best screenwriting programs available to, well, all of us, especially those with a few $$$ to spend. Here’s the 2020 update of one of the most important elements in our TV and screenwriting toolboxes.
Comparing all the best screenwriting software options out there can be overwhelming. When each program has multiple cool-sounding features, different price points and different levels of usability, knowing which screenwriting software to choose can be super confusing.
Sure, you’ve watched J. Michael Straczynski’s groundbreaking TV series Babylon 5, and odds are you’ve loved it because groundbreaking, you know? But do you know what it took to get this sucker on the air?
Sit back, click below, and – to quote from another popular s-f TV series – “all will be revealed.” Well, almost all. Enjoy, fans and future TV series creators, enjoy!
This is just one of the well-made and often fascinating videos available on Al Schlicher’s Vimeo channel.
“Yee-hah!”
— Jethro Bodine, as played by Max Baer Jr. on The Beverly Hillbillies
There must be something to being super-dim and mega-handsome. Just ask Jethro Bodine, The Beverly Hillbillies TV character portrayed with earnest by Max Baer, Jr. (who prefers to be known as just Max Baer) on CBS from 1962 to 1971. Jethro may have been born as “mountain folk,” but because his Uncle Jed Clampett (Buddy Ebsen) struck gold (“Texas tea”), he was fortunate enough to have “loaded up the truck and moved to Beverly . . . Hills, that is” — with the entire Clampett family, including Elly May (Donna Douglas) and Granny (Irene Ryan).