Tag: screenwriting

How to Become a Successful Freelance Editor and Proofreader

Last week we talked about choosing a suitable freelance book editor. Today Derek Murphy, an editor and owner of the editing company, Paper Perfect, writes about what it takes to become one.

by Derek Murphy

I’ve been a full-time, professional copy editor and proofreader for a few years now, and I can understand why so many people are interested in this field. For starters, I get to work at home, be my own boss, set my own pace (sort of), and still make enough money to buy myself a lot of cool toys. Here are a few of the most common questions wannabe-editors have asked me, along with my answers. read article

Stephanie Bourbon: “You CAN Make Money As A Creative”

LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, believes it’s time to change the “starving artist/writer/actress/etc. mantra and puts her piggy bank where her, erm, words are.

by Stephanie Bourbon

Hello Writers! [Today I am writing about this notion that we creatives group up with. read article

How I Hijacked Hollywood or: How To Sell A Screenplay

This clever tale of Imposter Syndrome in action (hey, we’ve ALL got it so what the heck) is packed with wisdom and attitude, and as regular TVWriter™ visitors know, we’re hardcore admirers of both.

by Zack Ford

On a hot spring day in 2013, I exited the Kips Bay brownstone in Manhattan where I lived in a rent-controlled studio apartment with my girlfriend and a white cat, walked west to 5th Avenue and then south to 23rd Street, to one of the few remaining Radio Shacks in history. Here, I bought an item just as outré as the store itself: an answering machine for a landline telephone. I had a plan to hack Hollywood. read article

CREATING CREDIBLE CHARACTERS

The always entertaining Dominic Carter demonstrates his insight into characterization. Gather ’round the campfire, kids, and read….

by Dominic Carter

I read a lot of screenplays from writers of all abilities and the one thing I often find these screenplays lack are credible character arcs. read article

Stacey Jones: NOTHING BUT SPOILERS (Because That’s How You Learn) #3

EDITOR’S ALERT: This is the second in Stacey Jones’ ongoing discussion of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and its place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Ergo, like it says in the title of this post, a world of SPOILERS awaits below the thin red line. Oh and also an assumption that you’re familiar with the MCU!

THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER
S1:E3 POWER BROKER
by Stacey Jones

Power Broker opens with an eerily real ad for the Global Repatriation Council* (GRC), for those who Blipped out and returned, with a promise to help ‘return to normal’. The serenity is shattered by a GRC Police force escorting “Captain America”, as he investigates Flag Smasher. read article