Back in March I posted a piece about women screenwriters in LA mostly cribbed from Where Have All the Women Writers Gone? a post by Nealy Swanson in Research Wrap. As Nealy pointed out there aren’t a lot of writers on staff at the top rated US series.
Suddenly this weekend, the post got a […]
Check out Where Have All the Women Gone? Long Time Passing in The Research Wrap Blog. Pilot season has been especially unkind to women writers this year. And the staffing situation isn’t much better. Take at look at this chart included in the post:
What about cable?
Perhaps, I thought, cable would be a more receptive arena […]
Monday, February 22, 2010
Today, the Writers Guild of Canada announced the finalists for the 2010 WGC Screenwriting Awards. I thrilled and excited to see so many friends nominated. Good luck to all.
Animation
Grossology “New Recruits.” Written by Richard Clark
Total Drama Action “Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen.” Written by Alex Ganetakos
League of Super Evil “Glory Hog.” Written by Philippe Ivanusic-Vallee and […]
Monday, December 28, 2009
2010 is a milestone. As a writer, my major objection to the first decade of the century has been about naming it. I hate the way this sounds:
The first decade of the two thousands.
On the hand, this rolls off the fingertips:
The first decade of the nineteen hundreds
But other than that, these last ten years have […]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Don’t you wish you worked for Canal+, the French premium pay television channel? In their ad campaign designed to drive viewers to their product, they are promoting writers as an essential part of their brand. The campaign slogan is “ever Underestimate The Power Of a Great Story.” The agency responsible for the campaign is BETC […]
The WGC Awards last night were a fabulous fun event. I had the pure joy of handing the Writers Block to the incredible Karen Walton.
Sometimes at these guild events, the elders of the tribe force all the rest of you into the wayback machine and make you sit through the stories of how we separated […]
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Like Denis, I was at the Playback Innovation Forum yesterday. Denis has got some valid criticisms of the event in his post, so I’ll go straight to the content.
James Manos Jr.
Bill Brioux interviewed James Manos Jr, who developed Dexter for television but left the series sometimes during the first season. Manos is a bit […]
Julie Gray over at The Rouge Wave has a list of writerly traits she’s noticed over the course of reading scripts every single daily and working with hundreds of writers. There are lots of them and many resonate. Here’s a taste:
Bad dialogue is never accompanied by good characters
Structure is confusing for the first three scripts […]
