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Leesa Dean: Guess Who’s Coming to Chilltown

Adventures of a Web Series Newbie - Chapter 19: Five (More) Things

Adventures of a Web Series Newbie: Chapter 19 – Five (More) Things
by Leesa Dean

So, another week of being absolutely swamped and not attending a cool YouTube seminar. I have so much coming up–the TOP SECRET PROJECT, working on the relaunch and getting the whole Lele expansion into place, I literally don’t have the time for nearly anything.

And…I’m prepping for the Chilltown Season Finale. Yes, it’s coming up next week and it’s wonderful and sad and scary all at once. This has been an unbelievable six months (feels like I’ve been at this for years.) In July, I’m taking a few weeks to just write and put plans together and then hitting the ground running in full production mode. read article

Cartoons: When You Are Gone…

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From IncidentalComics.Com and the brilliant Grant Snider

WGAW 2013 Board Candidates

wgawsmallYep, it’s that time of year again, when the Writers Guild of America, West, nominates members to run for its various offices, from Prez to Veep to Secretary-Treasure to the Board of Directors.

These won’t be the only candidates when the electioneering starts because the process includes outside nominations by petition. Still, it’s dismaying amusing interesting to see that the current President, Christopher Keyser, has been renominated and, unlike the other offices, as of now is unopposed.

Here, courtesy of their press release, is the WGAW’s side of the story: read article

Kathy Fuller Sees TALES FROM THE SCRIPT

All these writers and many more!
All these writers and many more!

Ah, Netflix. How I love thee. Although you’re far from perfect and need to a) offer more current streaming options and b) not wait so long to release new seasons, I can’t complain because you bring me gems like this: Tales from the Script. 

I love documentaries and biographies. Netflix is full of them. Somehow this ended up on my recommendations list and when I saw that it featured not one, not two, not even three but 50 Hollywood writers telling their stories I pounced on it. Honestly, I expected it to be soundbites and superficial interviews of just a few writers who made it and a bunch more writers who were trying to break in. Not so. If you’re a writer–any writer but especially a screenwriter–you MUST see this doc.

No spoilers here. No details here because you HAVE to watch it. But I will say this: you will find a lot of truth, inspiration, discouragement, encouragement, and advice. read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 6/25/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  • Austin Winsberg (GOSSIP GIRL) is writing the pilot for an untitled Showtime comedy about “high-profile music managers, which will be produced by music, um, guy John Legend. (Proving that if you call yourself a legend Showtime will buy into it and make you a big deal. Hey, it’s worth trying.)
  • Bob Boyett & Robert Horn (FULL HOUSE) are writing an as yet untitled FX series set to star Kelsey Grammer and Martin Lawrence. We say that they’re writing the series because FX has already given a go to 10 episodes, with a back end of 80 to come if things work out. (So if you or your agent know Bob and Robert (?), now’s the time for him to talk to them about your future.)
  • Frank Spotnitz (THE X FILES) is developing SAM HUNTER, a spy drama with a female lead, for Cinemax. The series is a spinoff of Cinemax’s HUNTED, a show we’re supposed to know about but don’t. Sorry. (We were very cool with the “female lead” thing till we read this patronizing description of the character as “a gutsy agent…who must work as a freelance spy to find out who wants her dead – and how it connects to the murder of her own mother.” How original. Ugh.)
  • The TV adaptation of Locke & Key, a comic book series written by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez, has been passed on, but it’s no biggie: Universal has picked up the premise as a feature film to be written by its go-to team of Alex Kurtzman & Robert Orci, whose credits we won’t bother mentioning because they’ve already became household names in writerly households. Sigh…