Here’s what going on, socially and professionally, at the Writers Guild of America West this month:
May 2021
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Stephanie Bourbon: “How to go deeper with your characters”
LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, shows us how to write deeper characters and in the process reveals how very deep her own character is.
by Stephanie Bourbon
Hey, Writers!
Writers, Avoid These Grammar Mistakes!
Experteditor.Com brings us this helpful infographic about grammar errors y’all – make that we all – really need to avoid.
Writers vs. Execs Dept: Saying No to Free Leavebehinds
The current discussion regarding free leavebehinds is one of the most contentious TV and film writing issues of our time. The Writers Guild of America West is dead against it. In the following video, several top writers do their best to clarify why.
Facing Your Fear of Success
Time now for us to face The Fear That Must Not Be Named. This is by far the best we’ve read this week.
How to Identify and Deal With a Fear of Success
by Elizabeth Yuko
Fear of failure makes sense. We’ve all experienced failure at some stage, realized it’s not great, and are worried about feeling like that again. But our brains are hard to please. Because in addition to the fear of failure, many people also experience a fear of success.
Though it may sound ridiculous, being afraid of succeeding is very real—although it’s not always obvious. In other words, you may be experiencing a fear of success and not realizing it (or are grouping it in with fear of failure). Ideally, we want to avoid these kinds of stresses and fears, so here are some tips for identifying and dealing with a fear of success.