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After waiting almost exactly 21 years after launch to see how it worked out, I think it's time I join this thing called YouTube....
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Glenn Gers was a professional writer of movies and television for 25 years. His credits include theatrical features including FRACTURE (2007) and MAD MONEY (2008), no-budget indies like DISFIGURED (2008), TV...
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Last week on a Disney+ account near you, Seth Rogen—the hardest working man in show biz—announced the return of the Kerm. A one-off Muppet Show special starring Sabrina Carpenter, Maya Rudolph, and other human and furry celebrities brought Jim Henson’s...
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Over on Balls & Strikes, law writer Jay Willis published an excellent piece about the Hachette imprint Basic Liberty publishing conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s So Ordered, a book about Alito’s “judicial philosophy and reflects on the roles of...
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I remember exactly where I was when I learned that Audre Lorde had passed. It was an evening in late fall, already really cold in that characteristically Chicago way. I was at the Guild Literary Complex with one of my...
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This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Literary History newsletter—sign up here. On February 10, 1778, the prolific writer and philosopher Voltaire, born Francois-Marie Arouet, returned to Paris? after 28 years of exile. Voltaire was famous for his satirical poetry and witty criticisms...
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Every journey begins with a first step, right? The YouTube channel for our indie (and award-winning) mockumentary web series, Abnormal Fixation, just crossed one million views!This figure doesn't count streaming, (we're on Fawesome and Relay at present,) but it's a good sign, I hope, that our audience is starting to find us!Give us a watch when you get the chance!...
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“This is the Earth. But not the world we knew…Apart from us, it’s empty now. A civilization once flourished here…another Atlantis, perhaps.”-Victor Bergman describes a mysterious alternate Earth in Johnny Byrne’s “Another Time, Another Place.”The Earth’s moon, in a region of distant space, passes through a strange, inexplicable phenomenon. The moon’s velocity increases as the Alphans experience dizziness, shock and...
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This 80-year old, elegantly made, deeply creepy film (with a screenplay by Mel Dinelli, based on the novel "Some Must Watch" by Ethel Lina White) is the harrowing tale of a small town dealing with a rash of brutal murders.An unknown killer is methodically offing local women who possess some kind of imperfection. One victim is "mentally deficient," another bore a scar on her...
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Our new book... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 0:00 - What Is A Filmmaker? 5:15 - Why Society Hates Creative People 23:05 - 5 Ways A Movie Can Fail 31:34 - 3 Harsh Truths For Anyone Who Wants To Be A Travel Filmmaker 46:00 - I've Made Movies Outside America For 40...
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Happy Friday, readers! Here at Lit Hub, we’re determined to keep fighting the good fight. As cold fronts continue to pummel the East coast and craven billionaires and mad kings continue to play pickle-ball with our rights, lifting up the...
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All About Female Villains Remember when female villains were just jealous queens asking mirrors about their looks? Yeah, we’ve come a long way, baby. Over the past two decades, storytelling has given us female villains who are so deliciously complex, so brilliantly twisted, that we can’t help but be fascinated. These aren’t your grandmother’s wicked… Read More »Top 10 Dastardly &...
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I reviewed 20 years of EFM sessions to understand the industry’s recurring discussions and to see what 2026 has in store. Plus, I look at whether the market’s "decline" narrative matches the data....
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I’m thinking about the mother in Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing.” The iron goes back and forth, back and forth, and so do her thoughts, tallying up all the ways she was and was not enough as a mother....
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I watched The Six Million Dollar Man religiously – and I mean religiously – as a six year-old boy. But truth be told, I never much cared for the espionage stories, the ones with Steve going undercover to topple a foreign dictator or help an Eastern Bloc scientist defect to the West.No, the stories I loved were the ones in which the bionic Colonel...
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Maggie O’Farrell was first struck by the homophonic similarity between Shakespeare’s son Hamnet and the titular character of his play, Hamlet when she was 16-years-old. She carried that intrigue over three decades and the publication of nine books, including several...
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Your story’s tone and content don’t have to match—and when they don’t, they can combine to create something greater than their sum....
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Shaked Berenson has marketed, sold, and released over 1,000 films and television series. As a Board Member at the Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA™) and a public speaker, Shaked has been a vocal advocate for independent...
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Jane McGehee has joined as literary agent and foreign rights manager; previously she was a scout....
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Eman Bare will represent both fiction and nonfiction. She has worked as a journalist, lawyer, and brand strategist....
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ProWritingAid has launched a novel-writing contest called Novel Beginnings, with prizes ranging from $5,000 to $50,000....
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The newspaper is closing the sports desk and books section; the international desk, among other areas, will also shrink....
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The latest in hockey romance, trends, micro dramas, distribution, media & tech, and AI....
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I tracked the timing of 175,902 critic reviews across 10,766 films to see what it signals before the opening weekend....
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While in pursuit of our writing goals, the serendipitous experiences along the way might be just as meaningful as landing the big fish....
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS: How To Unlock Your Story One Question At A Time - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd Adam Argot has worked in film, TV, games, and publishing as a director, writer, author, story and concept artist for over 15 years for both major and independent studios. Along with...
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Looking at the data behind which films appear on user-generated lists of 'Movies which are awesome, but I don't ever want to watch again' reveals what feeling audiences never want to return to....
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What Crime Writers Can Learn from The Traitors The Traitors has been sweeping the UK. Three times a week, millions of people take time out of their day to watch a bunch of regular folks trying to solve an Agatha-Christie-style murder mystery. What is it that works for this series? 1) Everyone Wants To Be… Read More »5 Top Tips Crime...
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Table of Contents 1. What is ghostwriting, and what is a ghostwriter? 2. What is a freelance ghostwriter, and what do they do? 3. Why should you consider becoming one? 4. How do you become one? 5. What is a typical rate for ghostwritten books? 6. What kinds of fees can they ask for? 7. […] The post Ghostwriting Explained:...
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I use Apple Pages for all my writing, but I was cautious about using Pages with Apple Intelligence. Checking grammar, spelling, and punctuation is an important part of my workflow, but I’m usually reluctant to use AI tools for the task. However, I was curious to see if Apple’s built-in approach, like the Apple dictionary… The post Working With Apple...
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50 Years ago, Doctor Who began airing one of my all-time favorite serials, "The Seeds of Doom."In Antarctica Camp 3, several scientists -- Moberly (Michael McStay), Winlett (John Gleeson), and Stevenson (Hubert Rees) -- excavate from the ice a mysterious vegetable pod. Found at a layer that indicates it is more than 20,000 years old, this vegetable pod becomes of interest...
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd 0:00 - Being A Filmmaker And Entrepreneur 8:41 - 5 Reasons Why Filmmakers Need To Start Thinking About Virtual Production 18:39 - Beginners Guide To Virtual Production: Everything Filmmakers Need To Know 32:25 - Green Screen Versus...
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Audience habits, localisation workflows, and global rights deals are moving in the same direction, and the combined effect is larger than most people are treating it....
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A successful story unfurls in a way that both keeps readers grounded and keeps them guessing—so withhold information, but not context....
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd 0:00 - How To Overcome Shyness 11:23 - Beginners Guide To Starting Out In The Movie Business 34:32 - Why Are There So Many Remakes And Recycled TV Shows 47:57 - Great Story Doesn't Fake Authenticity 1:01:12...
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The independent publisher is cofounded by writers who raised $30,000 on Kickstarter....
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The platform that supports independent booksellers has launched a new subscription plan offering users 12 credits for $169.99 per year....
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In addition to pirating ebooks, they bought print books from wholesalers and used book retailers, including Ingram and Baker & Taylor....
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The organization will donate books by authors who have been banned, starting with 20 schools in states where bans are most prevalent....
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Pen name privacy is often seen as a digital mask, but a name alone isn’t enough to protect your true identity. Every article you publish can drop “invisible breadcrumbs,” from hidden image metadata to innocent anecdotes that can lead readers straight to your door. If you aren’t actively protecting your digital footprint, your professional firewall… The post Pen Name Privacy:...
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Improv is about being in the moment, and showed one author how to let go, listen better, take risks, and move on when something doesn’t work....
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Our two new books... STORY QUESTIONS is currently 10% off! - https://payhip.com/b/ZTvq9 and 17 Steps To Writing A Great Main Character - https://payhip.com/b/kCZGd 0:00 - Hollywood Isn't Dying For Writers, Here's What's Happening Now 11:18 - Chapter 2 36:01 - Chapter 3 42:49 - Chapter 4 51:45 - Chapter 5 1:13:54 - Chapter 6 1:29:03 - Chapter 7 1:56:00 -...
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