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:
Climate Strike Day
It’s time to walk our talk about a certain impending doom that way too many people are burying their heads in the sand about.
Today is Climate Strike Day, worldwide, and while it has nothing to do with TV or film writing, it has everything to do with Real Life. As the Ohio Sierra Club put it in a recent tweet:
Stephanie Bourbon Answers Your Novel Writing Career Questions
In this installment of her web series writing tips, Stephanie Bourbon answers all our novel writing career questions.
How does this help us as TV writers? Well, besides the personal satisfaction writing a novel can give (because there’s nobody hovering over you with second-guessing notes), there’s the little matter of how much money you can make if your book becomes a TV series or film. Not to mention what good little career launchers well-written novels can be.
‘Watchmen” Official Trailer
We don’t usually show trailers of broadcast or cable/satellite series, but today we’re making an exception because, hey, this is a fascinating look into one of TV’s most hotly awaited new shows.
We’re talking Watchmen, baby, based on the comic book series created by Alan Moore & David Gibbons. Except Moore’s name isn’t in any of the official credits because he demanded to be out, out, out of the loop, and for reasons probably having to do with gross ignorance, HBO refuses to use the term “comic book” and refers only to the comics’ later “graphic novel” version.
ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS, AUDIO EDITION – 09/19/19
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 are now trawling through podcasts looking for new content and talent.