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In his book “The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing Our Culture,” Andrew Keen laments the loss of advertising dollars, TV news shows and Tower Records the way someone in the early days of the Industrial Revolution must have mourned the loss of blacksmiths. Every business has an era, and since the …
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I’m a 4 am writer. I love the quiet, the darkness, the lack of ringing phones and pressing business. It’s just me, my two sleeping dogs, and my laptop. One of my mantras is “stay off the internet,” but I’m not always that strong. Especially if I’m waiting to hear from someone. The days I …
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I was distressed to discover that it’s been almost a year since I’ve blogged. Certain life events interfered with the process for me, and it’s only now that things have settled down that I can commit to blogging on a regular basis. One of the main occurrences was a job in a production company in …
If you’re a relative beginner, like me, it is time to accept that screenwriting comes with a long and difficult learning curve. In addition to the daily requirement of hours at the keyboard, one of the ways you can set yourself up to succeed is through ongoing involvement with screenwriting classes. Mine is with Writers …
It’s a whole new month – the summer is flying by and I’ve hardly blogged at all. I’ve been very busy, interning for a production company, writing my original pilot, looking for paid work and reading and evaluating scripts. Not to mention trying to keep my two lazy teens busy and all the maintenance tasks …
Not that long ago, great summer TV was an oxymoron. Luckily, those days are gone. Here are some shows I recommend catching up on: Newsroom by Aaron Sorkin – HBO Wow, what an exciting show! I think it might even be better than the West Wing. I just watched the first two episodes back to …
Hi all, I’ve been having some good luck with networking lately, and I thought I would share the following emails I exchanged with Manny Fonseca. He’s a weekly columnist for the http://www.thebusinessofshowinstitute.com/newsletter-06-29-12.html#06-29-12-12 . He also mentioned me in this week’s column. If you’re a screenwriter and you’re not reading this newsletter, you are missing out on a …
Last year, around June 8, I decided to enter the competition for NBC/Universal Writers on the Verge. I didn’t have a completed spec, or even a half-completed spec, but felt that if I worked hard on it, I could get it in time for the June 29th deadline. I decided to write a Vampire Diaries …
I haven’t been blogging as much as I’d like, because I’ve been so busy writing my scripts. Here’s a sneak peek into what I’ve been up to lately, and what I plan to write about in the near future. How many drafts does it take to get to a final product? Writing with a partner …
It’s measured in moments. Tiny increments of achievement, over time add up to significant progress. Sometimes you notice them. Once in a while, someone else notices. Most often, they go unrecognized in the daily grind of life, when you struggle at the keyboard to finish a scene, to edit what you wrote yesterday, to elevate …
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