Tag: screenwriting

‘Watchmen” Official Trailer

We don’t usually show trailers of broadcast or cable/satellite series, but today we’re making an exception because, hey, this is a fascinating look into one of TV’s most hotly awaited new shows.

We’re talking Watchmen, baby, based on the comic book series created by Alan Moore & David Gibbons. Except Moore’s name isn’t in any of the official credits because he demanded to be out, out, out of the loop, and for reasons probably having to do with gross ignorance, HBO refuses to use the term “comic book” and refers only to the comics’ later “graphic novel” version. read article

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS, AUDIO EDITION – 09/19/19

by Bob Tinsley

Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™  be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.

The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios are now trawling through podcasts looking for new content and talent. read article

How I Stopped Sabotaging My Writing Goals

The only element in this article that’s even more appealing than its immense helpfulness is its warm, moving candor. The writer, Andrea Jarrell, now has several more big fans – LB and the rest of us here at TVWriter™.  Here’s why:

How I Stopped Sabotaging My Writing Goals: Confessions of a Late Bloomer
by Andrea Jarrell

Given that I published my first book at age 55, some might call me a late-blooming author. I am. But not because I suddenly discovered writing and decided to write a book. I am a late bloomer because I finally stopped sabotaging myself and did the work needed to realize life-long ambitions.

Writing books is all I ever wanted to do. Yet, for many years, I wore my writing dream like a costume—acting the part but never really committing to the work. Throughout my childhood, teens and 20s, I might have looked like someone working for her dream: sending earnest poems to teen magazines and entering contests, majoring in the right subjects, founding student publications, and working in New York City publishing jobs. read article

The Downs (and Eventual Ups) of Making It Past that Debut Writing Year

What’s it like to be a trending new writer? We like this self-examination of one new “killing it” writer’s perspective.

by Christina Soontornvat

“You’re on fire!”
“Rockstar!”
“You’re killing it!” read article

In Praise of 10 Superbly Written TV Series

Found on the interwebs: The kind of article we don’t see often enough in what remains of the original Hollywood trade publications. In others words, critical praise for our favorite oft-forgot species – writers.

The Americans

by Tim Goodman
Chief TV Critic, The Hollywood Reporter

I had a week off, ostensibly to do something other than watch or think about TV — and yes, some of that actually happened — but there’s always peripheral brain creep when it comes to television, with everything from highbrow conceptual ideas to lower-brow (but probably more fun) list-making clanging around in my head. A recent random thought that popped up concerned great writing on television. Quickly — in about a nanosecond — four examples came to mind.

The result was oddly troubling. But at least in that flash of a moment, it was clear that I don’t have recency bias. read article