August 2010
2 posts
Michael Bloomberg delivers stirring defense of... →
Bravo.
Modern Family Showrunner Steve Levitan →
“We’ll never take a note from anybody that we don’t agree with. We won’t do it to make somebody happy. We might say that’s a lateral move and it’s making them happy, fine, but we’ll never do something that we think is wrong. I think everybody should do that. I’ve always done it, even when I didn’t have a history to fall back on. And I think it’s what you need to do in this...
July 2010
2 posts
Roundtable on Comedy Showrunning: Seth MacFarlane,... →
BC Librarians Call for G20 Inquiry, Cite Charter... →
May 2010
2 posts
February 2010
4 posts
Joyce Maynard on Life After Writing About J.D.... →
Reminds me of the flurry of criticism of Evelyn Lau after she wrote a short story based on her relationship with W.P. Kinsella.
January 2010
4 posts
Screenwriting credits, floating up in the air →
Prairie Fire Magazine Reviews Mark Goldstein's... →
“His is excellent work, with the prose and poetry working together like Cirque du Soleil Acrobats.”
December 2009
2 posts
Hear the words of the decade →
Ian Brown reads aloud for the benefit of the illiterate or because the web editors are trying to sex things up.
November 2009
3 posts
Among Late-Night Writers, Few Women in the Room →
October 2009
1 post
Acing the Meeting & Social Trickery 101 →
September 2009
12 posts
Situation Comedy Supply and Demand - TV Guidance -... →
A great summary of the differences between single camera a multi camera comedies.
Screenwriting Tip #86
screenwritingtips:
It’s not necessary to have fifty ellipses per page. If your characters were to actually pause on every single one, this movie would run for seven hours.
“the Kindle lets readers down with respect to one subtle but powerful element of...”
– Nice point about the Kindle … (via clivethompson)
“There’s no such thing as information overload but filter failure,” said Mr....”
– Great comment by Dennis Crowley of foursquare, in a story about location-based tech. (via clivethompson)
Are The Best Drama Writers Comedy Writers? →
Yes.
On The Asking of Favors From Established Writers →
Tell it, daddy!
What It’s Like →
A great post on what writers should be doing between gigs.
Feminists face off over the veil →
August 2009
3 posts
WatchThe Camera & ‘Mad Men’ - a Film & TV video
What It’s Like » The Jeopardy experience →
My new, favourite screenwriter site. With apologies to McGrath.
July 2009
1 post
June 2009
10 posts
Two Rapes: The Sopranos & Mad Men →
Cheatsheets for Bad Writers (or producers who want... →
A Prefab House That Dazzles Still →
Broken Atlas →
My Pal Satan, Dennis Heaton →
May 2009
5 posts
crushed:
mister,
your mom would have loved me. and i think you know it, too.
— the nice girl
Digs it. →
Staffing Season Madness Explained →