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From: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “Q: But, as he says, the writers will often put characters in a jam with no idea of how to get out of it. How close to his reality is yours?” I love how Carlton Cuse (Co-exec on Lost) didn’t weigh in [in this […]
Link: Post-Water-Cooler TV: How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age “The water cooler moment, what is that really? At its core, it’s people having a reason to have a conversation about a shared experience, but there’s a lot of ways to have a shared experience. That can be live-tweeting. That can be people that […]
Issa Rae is living the dream these days. Create your own YouTube show, have it become a viral sensation, get people like Shonda Rhimes to get you to write stuff with/for them, get your own show picked up by HBO! This is one of the new models of this age for writers and actors to […]
As an avid Doctor Who watcher, I was shocked when Matt Smith announced that Christmas would be his last episode. I wasn’t quite ready to get used to a new Doctor. I started watch in 2011 via Netflix (starting from “Rose”) and sorry Nine, but Ten might always be MY Doctor as they say but […]
If you haven’t already, you should watch BBC America’s Orphan Black. I should probably post something about the writing (this being a lot of the point of this blog and all) but like most Orphan Black watchers, you should watch for it’s lead (and supporting and secondary and guest) actress Tatiana Maslany. She is nothing […]
“The goal is never about the medium. It’s always about the next story.” ~@josswhedon In this day and age, the word “television” doesn’t always mean “watching on a television set in the living room.” This quote speaks to the power of stories and, considering it’s Joss discussing SHIELD, the power of television stories, regardless of […]
26 Minority Screenwriters to Inspire You Just linking here on wordpress a post I wrote for Amanda’s Aspiring TV Writer and Screenwriter Blog. Minority screenwriters of both TV and Film. Check it out here! Let me know of writers I may have missed!
I just finished watching A Different World. Despite being such a huge fan of The Cosby Show, I’d never watched the spin-off. I finally have made my way through most of the episodes (thanks to YouTube, since only season 1 is on DVD right now). And I loved it. It was well-written, fun, funny, had great […]
In order to think of spec ideas, one tends to turn to recent events in the news to spur an idea. I’m not always good at that. But a show that I would love to spec (I’ve been trying and have yet to get it right) is Parks and Recreation and I think they’ve been […]
In my “study” of how to write television, I’ve taken out loads of books on how to write specs, for both dramas (and sitcoms, but this post focuses on hour-long dramatic structure). I’m a person who very much likes a structure/visual idea before I start something, so having something that tells me approximately where certain story […]