Writing can be hard, especially in the absence of a deadline or a pay check, so it’s great to have some supports to help power you through those spec drafts. Enter Script Frenzy.
Script Frenzy is an international writing event in which participants take on the challenge of writing 100 pages of scripted material in the […]
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Valuable insight into the writing process for a snowy Thursday morning:
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
We’ve talked a lot here lately about Twitter and other virtual experiences helping writers reclaim their voices. But some times, after long days of blogging, tweetering, writing Facebook notes and commenting on my friends blogs, my own voice starts making me feel slightly nauseated. If you feel the same way, perhaps you’d like to join […]
Having trouble getting anything written between answering emails, cruising the web and Tweeting obsessively? Check out Cory Doctorow’s recent blog post on Writing in the Age of Distraction.
The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet because it would only waste my time and wouldn’t help my […]
Monday, December 29, 2008
Anne Lamott is one of my favourite writers and the author of my favourite book on writing, Bird by Bird.
What I love about Lamott is her forgiving, generous spirit. She is the proponent of the shitty first draft; it doesn’t need to be good, it just has to be written. She understands that 90% of […]
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 […]
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
I’m listening to David Milch talking about writing with Bill Kurtis in the Paley Center for Media Studies program called A Conversation with David Milch. It’s from way back in 2004, but still illuminating. Man, can Milch talk. And, man is it interesting.
Here are a few quotes:
The last novel [Herman Melville] wrote sold about seven […]
Check out the videos of David Milch on “The Idea of the Writer” here.
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