Happy Monday morning everybody!
Hope your weekend has been a great one. Time now for TVWriter™’s latest look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:
Stephanie Bourbon on How to Write a Strong Opening
In this installment of her web series writing tips, Stephanie Bourbon solves all our film, TV episode, novel, short story, and stage play writing problems–
Oops, not exactly all of them, but certainly one of the most important ones. As in how to write an opening that grips the reader or viewer and compels them to keep on reading or watching.
Forbidden Books From Around The World
Words have power, and those many people not-so-fondly-refer-to as “Our Overlords” know that.
Gather ’round your screens, TVWriter™ writer friends (and reader friends too!) and have a gander at the books various governments around the world have publicly declared themselves terrified by.
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS, AUDIO EDITION – 09/26/19
by Bob Tinsley
Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.
PJ McIlvaine: The Summer from Hell
by PJ McIlvaine
It’s a warm late summer night on the cusp of the fall season, and I for one will not be sad to see summer go.
May-July was busy. Heck, every month was busy. But I put my nose to the grindstone and burned through a revise and resubmit on a project very dear to my soul. I had a self-imposed deadline and was determined to beat it. Now no one was pushing me to work so hard except me.
But once I got started, I went into that wonderful writing zone and when you’re in it, you just have to ride the wave like a surfer. And once it was done, I breathed a sigh of relief and put my faith in the Universe.