Actually overthinking probably is pretty much everyone’s plague – but I’m talking about writers here so that’s where I’ll take this article.
Do you over think, over edit, over tweak everything you write? Yeah, it’s tough, I know. Insecurity, worry, apprehension, am-I-doing-it-right-itis.
We all do it sometime. Writers do it more often. Worry a plot, a scene, a paragraph to death.
Really? Success is a rule and not a goal? A way and not an end? Another mystery of the universe revealed!
The Only Rule is Success.
Sounds easy, right? Not always, but it is something you can trust.
An intriguing and funny read about showbiz, Kremlin style:
by Michael IdovOn the monitor, a turquoise 1958 Cadillac Sedan DeVille rolls past a Lenin statue and comes to a stop next to a rat-gray 1960 Series 2 Volga. We are at Gorki Leninskie, a modest manor south of Moscow where the leader of the revolution spent his last days, now a museum complex frequented, judging by the Mandarin signage, mostly by Chinese tour groups. The two cars would look serendipitously symbolic if I hadn’t put them there myself. I am an American writer who writes Russian films.
On an October day last year, a large crew had commandeered the manor to shoot an episode of ‘‘The Optimists,’’ a series I developed for Russia’s Channel 2 about young Soviet diplomats in 1960. In this scene, set at a government dacha, they are joined by their American counterparts at the State Department for a daylong picnic that grows increasingly informal, involving drinks, flirtation, a guitar jam and (spoiler) contact between two spies. At times in my new job, I feel like a spy myself, and one with a shaky cover. I don’t have a good answer for how I got here. Not only have I blindly managed to write Russia’s most popular feature film and one of its most-talked-about TV series of the year, but I managed to do it in 2015, when relations between the United States and Russia were at their coldest point since the events depicted in ‘‘The Optimists’’ (which deals with the aftermath of the Francis Gary Powers spy flight in 1960 and the Berlin Crisis).
In case you didn’t believe that the WGA on both coasts is serious about repping video game writers and getting them – among other things – the recognition they deserve:
The Writers Guild of America, West (WGAW) and the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE) have announced nominations for outstanding achievement in writing for videogames during 2015. Winners will be honored at the 2016 Writers Guild Awards on Saturday, February 13, at concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York City.
NOMINEES FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN VIDEOGAME WRITING
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