Yes, it’s true. There are books about writing that actually can help you not just write but make money from writing. LB’s Television Writing from the Inside Out is one. And here are five, count ’em, 5 more:
This post comes with the help of my own library, meaning I own every one of these books. Enjoy!
Good morning! Time for TVWriter™’s Monday look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday, January 7th? They are, in order:
Empty Promises: My experience submitting scripts to Amazon Studios
As you may have noticed, TVWriter™ has been generously allowing me space from time to time to enthuse about the opportunities for writers in the Audio Drama field. Pursuant to that – and before LB decides to pull the plug – here’s something I think everybody who comes here should know:
The Audio Drama Production Podcast is holding a competition for new audio drama scripts. The bare bones are these:
They will be accepting scripts in any genre except fan fiction in three categories: 10-minute, 15-minute, and 30-minute scripts. For those of you unfamiliar with audio scripts a decent rule of thumb is 165 to 185 words of finished script to one minute of run time.
Arika Okrent, our favorite grammar cop/English language scholar, gets down to the nitty gritty today – body parts. And once again this video gem doesn’t fail to charm.
This indie series reminds us of BBC’s award-winning The Detectorists, even though they’re nothing alike. In a nutshell, both shows gave us the same feeling when we first saw them: “Whoa! Sometimes sweetness really works!”
Check out the rest of the series and the story behind it HERE
Go to the Bluebird YouTube page HERE