Happy Monday morning everybody!
Hope you’ve had a great weekend. 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:
WGAW August 2019 Calendar
Here’s what going on, socially and professionally, at the Writers Guild of America West this month:
August 2019
Events listed are current at time of publication. Dates and details are subject to change during the month.
Stephanie Bourbon on Using Screenwriting Techniques to Write a Better Novel
This is long for a writing tips video at almost 10 minutes, but everything Ms. Bourbon says here is worth not merely listening to but truly absorbing.
Here at TVWriter™ we know several mighty fine (and popular) novelists whose first step in writing their books is to outline and write them as screenplays. In other words, this cinematic, scene-oriented technique works.
LB: Remembering Richard Thompson & ‘Cul de Sac’
by Larry Brody
Richard Thompson was one of the finest cartoonists to ever put ink onto a newspaper cartoon strip. The 2016 death from complications of Parkinson’s Disease of the creator of the syndicated strip Cul de Sac shocked and saddened fans and friends, including several of us at TVWriter™.
Last week, to honor the third anniversary of his way too early death, I stared re-reading the entire Cul de Sac oeuvre. I was feeling down and knew that if anything could cheer me, this would do it.
I also was thinking that with luck I might find a few strips that would apply specifically to writers and artists and content creators in general. In other words, to most of the people who visit this site.
How Dungeons & Dragons Can Improve Your Screenwriting
Found on the interwebs, a writing trick that not only makes sense, it also embodies that much misunderstood TV term, “high concept.”
This TVWriter™ minion is telling you straight from the, um, well, the place where most people have their hearts but I’m too snarky to admit it, the following info is gold. Way to go, Beverly Peders and WeScreenplay.Com.
