Tag: screenwriting
Uh-Oh Dept: Leaked Oscar Screeners are BitTorrent Smash Hits
What? Confidential screener DVDs sent out to Motion Picture Academy members (and WGA and DG members too) are ending up on the web? The peeps within the Industry are betraying their golden geese? Biting the hands that feed them?
Maybe it’s just us, but this doesn’t seem like such a bad thing at all. Or as “enigmax” puts it on TorrentFreak.Com:
John Ostrander: Freelancers Live Without A Net
John’s writing about comic book writers, but until you’re an established TV/film pro that net is pretty damn tenuous too:
by John Ostrander (ComicMix.Com)
As the comics world knows, writer Peter David recently had a stroke. I’ve known Peter for a long time and I both respect and often envy his talent, skill and the breadth of his work. Peter has health insurance but there are plenty of bills that just won’t get covered and, as pointed out here on ComicMix, fans who want to show financial support can do so by purchasing his work at Crazy 8 Press. That’s incredibly easy; not only do your help Peter and his family but will probably get a damn fine read out of it at the same time. Like I said, Peter is a very talented writer.
munchman: Now These are Fucking Murals!
Time for me to move to Europe, where a mural genius named Przemek Blejzy works his magic:
I know this has nothing to do with TV writing, or screenwriting, or any kind of writing for that matter. But that doesn’t keep it from being awesome.
Peggy Bechko: Tax Time? Already? Tax Tips for Writers
by Peggy Bechko
2012 is gone
On to
2013!
Okay, I made it through the end of the year when I got my new computer. Yes, I actually did the techie thing (I am no techie if you’ll remember) and got the thing up and running. My brain felt like a marshmallow after, but I guess that’s par for the course from what I hear from IT people. Even downloaded printer drivers for the new Windows 8 version, installed and actually have it printing.