Tag: screenwriting

14 Tips and Tricks to Make Your Writing Stronger

Grammarcheck.Net and Jennifer Frost continue to delight us with helpful tips for writers of all media. Here’s the latest example.

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Cartoon: How to Build a Sandcastle

TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, shows us much more than the title of this cartoon lets on. The way we see it, he could also have called this “How to Build a Career,” or “How to Build a Life,” or…well, you get the idea. Whatcha think?

See more of Grant Snider’s extraordinary perception of human creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE read article

Kickstarting Your Web Series or Fiction Podcast

by Bob Tinsley

Doing a Kickstarter isn’t hard.

I’m putting my money where my mouth is, figuratively speaking. I’m doing a Kickstarter campaign to fund converting my fiction podcast, ESCAPE! Scifi, into a full cast audiobook. You can find it here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anewdawn/a-new-dawn-audiobook

I’ve been thinking about a KS for a while, but I had no idea how to start. I thought it would be difficult and time consuming, so I didn’t do anything about it. read article

Marketing tips for reaching your first readers

Nathan Bransford, TVWriter™’s favorite publishing know-it-all has a video for us this week, in which he reaches out to his fave book-marketing expert David Gaughran.

So sit back, relax, and watch this scintillating discussion of why and how you should use digital ads to reach new readers and other (and slightly less daunting) SEO topics.

Nathan has a transcript of this entire convo for those of us who are too impatient to watch and listen. You can find it right here. read article

HOW TO GET STARTED WRITING THAT BOOK

by Caimh McDonnell

LB’S NOTE: As of this particular moment (as opposed to that non-particular moment, I suppose), Caimh McDonnell (“comedian, writer, Irishman,” as his blog tells all who discover it) is my favorite novelist because of his ability to make genre detective stories read like literary fiction.

So imagine my surprise when I discovered that his skill is about as far from accidental as can be. Dood not only knows exactly what he’s doing, he’s happy to share that knowledge with the rest of us grunts.

So listen, listen good. No, not with your ears. He’s a writer, dammit, not an AI voice. Anyway: read article