If you can’t relate to this cartoon, not only aren’t you a reader, you aren’t a writer either!
In other words, not only does Grant Snider know stuff…and feel stuff, he also reveals stuff.
Grant, dood – is what you’re really reading my mind?
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Conversation with Novelist & 2009 People’s Pilot Winner John Adcox
Back in 2007, TVWriter™’s People’s Pilot Competition declared John Adcox’s spec pilot script, CHALLENGERS OF MYSTERY the overall contest winner. Since then, John’s veered off the TV writing path and become a highly regarded writer of books and short stories. Recently, John gave the following highly informative interview about writing, marketing, and everything in between:
5 Questions with Fantasy Author John Adcox
by Will Bly
I interview John Adcox and receive some of the most-detailed answers to date. We explore John’s varied background, relate his marketing background to 
writing, and ask him to predict the future.
he first impression I have of you is that you are a man who wears many hats – publisher, author, and screenwriter for starters. You also boast a solid background in marketing and communications, and have helped some notable companies develop their brand. As a writerly person how important is it to be flexible in the age of the internet?
Diana Vacc sees “Independence Day: Resurgence”
by Diana Vaccarelli
Twenty years after the iconic film Independence Day opened to not only box office success but critical success as well, much of the original gang both before and behind the cameras has returned to our screens. It’s sequel time, with Independence Day: Resurgence telling the tale of how, a generation after our victory over alien invaders Earth is in big trouble from a new threat. Well, actually it’s the old threat. Except…
No, I’ll stop now. No point in me spoiling things for you. The film handles that all by itself.
THE GOOD:
CARGO 3120 Chapter Five
More CARGO 3120.
If you’re not up to speed on this fine s-f novella and the series it’s designed to introduce, please start from the beginning HERE
60 Things For Your Characters To Do When They Talk Or Think
One of the things that drives experienced writers and directors and actors and producers crazy is being given scenes that are all about what the characters in them are saying (or thinking) and not about what they’re doing.
Sitting and talking. Standing and talking. Eating and talking. Driving and talking. These are just about the dullest possible things that could be happening in a story, be it on the big screen, the small screen, the even smaller screen, or even in a book.
Fortunately, one of our favorite blogs, South Africa’s Writers Write, has a few suggestions for how to give your characters something to do that will make what they’re saying seem more interesting. Wait, did we say “a few?” Try 60. God, don’t you love it when writers writing about writing write so thoroughly?