Tag: Spec Scriptacular Contest

So you wanna write for TV — here’s help

An insider writes about TV writing for a publication that’s as outsider as you can get…and there’s much here for all of us newbies to learn:

Jay Tarsesby Trai Cartwright

“Want to learn how to write for TV?”

This question came from Jay Tarses, a legendary Hollywood TV writer and the old curmudgeon I was now working for. “See those shelves? Read those.” The shelves he pointed to were 8 feet tall, just as wide, and packed solid with TV scripts. I’d never even seen one before, much less 7 million of them. read article

CARTOON: The Truth About Creation

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Sometimes even The New Yorker gets it right

LEGALLY BLONDE Writers Discuss Their Creative Process

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Back in 1991, our Beloved Leader Larry Brody decided he’d had it with showbiz and drastically changed his life, packing up the belongings that meant the most to him – um, that would be cowboy boots, his Ludwig drum kit, his comic book collection, and his best friend, The Navajo Dog – threw everything into a teeny little Mitsubishi 4×4 and headed for, New Mexico to, well, to live with Indians, actually.

Even while residing on the Santa Clara Pueblo, just north of Santa Fe, LB couldn’t quite call it quits and ended up teaching screen and TV writing and production at The College of Santa Fe. After a few years, to the joy of fans everywhere (and the dismay of executives everywhere also), a more enlightened and relaxed LB (we think it was the ‘shrooms) came back to L.A. and set about revolutionizing Saturday morning animation with shows like THE SILVER SURFER. read article

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY is Great Fun

A couple of days ago we posted a critique of the storytelling in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, from the L.A. Times. A lot of readers disagreed. Even most of us here at TVWriter™ disagreed. So it’s with great relish that we bring y’all a different viewpoint from one of the pickiest writers on the web: (Nah Ne Nah Ne Nah Ne, LA Times!)

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by The Bitter Script Reader

I really didn’t think this one was going to work.

Marvel has had such a string of hits that it’s really easy to forget just how unknown many of their franchises were to a mass audience. Iron Man and Thor had always been second-tier, Hulk was seen as damaged goods after the failure of the Ang Lee-helmed film and Captain America was a dudley-do-right whose history necessitated the first film being a period piece.  There are reasons that any one of those franchises could have struggled to find an audience, to say nothing of the risk of having all those franchises feed into one film with all the heroes? read article

How CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER Should Have Ended

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