Another Tip for Overcoming Your “Creative Block”

…Hmm, these suggestions are all over the web. What can that mean? Everybody reading this who doesn’t feel blocked, raise your hand? Anybody? No…?

10 Block Breakers That Work – By Susan K. Perry

Whether you call it writer’s block or creative block, we all find our work coming less easily at some times than others. That’s when you need strategies, and plenty of them. read article

Why Writing Mistakes Suck

Cuz, believe it or dnt, sum people don’t gt it:

Typos, Spelling Mistakes, Grammar – by Danny Stack (Scriptwriting in the UK)

When a reader gets a script from the spec pile, they usually don’t have a clue who the writer is, or where the writer comes from. The script is going to be representative of everything the reader’s going to assume about the writer’s personality, talents and abilities. read article

Supercomputer is Creating & Running a Universe

…maybe…our universe?

The Supercomputer That Houses an Entire Universe – by Adrian Covert

Over a span of two weeks in October, the Mira supercomputer will crank away nonstop, processing quadrillions of operations every second—something that few other machines are currently capable of. It will simultaneously track trillions of particles as they move, expand, and react to each other according to the laws of physics. This simulation will have to use everything mankind has learned about the movement of objects. If successful, it will not only confirm what we’ve suspected, but will also give us a deeper understanding of how the cosmos came to be. Mira, in short, is simulating the history of our universe. read article

Ken Levine is Holding a “Sitcom Room” Weekend

Do you have what it takes to participate?

SITCOM ROOM registration is now open – by Ken Levine

Ever wonder what it’s like to be a comedy writer on a sitcom?   Being surrounded by really funny people in a work environment where laughter is not just encouraged but required?    Is this something you’ve always wanted to do?  Or just something you’d like to experience one time?  Then I invite you to join THE SITCOM ROOM — a weekend hands-on seminar where you don’t just sit and listen to boring lectures for two days, you WRITE.   You’re put in a writing room where you will fix a script and see Hollywood actors performyour material.   It’s kind of like one of those baseball fantasy camps except you don’t blow out your hamstring. read article