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The Second Great Story in the History of Writers

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 […]

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 […]

What Writers Are Like

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 […]