Words

Everything about writing and words falls into this category.

Speechless #20: Woody Allen

December 11, 2007 – 8:33 am

Director George Hickenlooper and writer Alan Sereboff have teamed up to create a series of mini-shorts designed to throw light onto the issue of writers. Using top - tier SAG artists and clever presentation of ideas, they’ve put together a whole series of these amazing pieces. They began “airing” on Thanksgiving an United Hollywood.com. Of [...]

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NaNoWriMo: 50,127

November 29, 2007 – 10:25 pm

Man, I picked a bad month to try to re-start this blog. Nothing gets in the way of blogging quite like deciding to write 50,000 words in thirty days. Well, almost nothing. Decapitation can get in the way of blogging. In fact, most dismemberment leads to blogging slowdown. My point is that I was do [...]

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Kindle

November 20, 2007 – 10:44 am

Amazon announced yesterday the arrival of its new tree-less technology, Kindle. I don’t want to wax enthusiastic about something I haven’t tried, but I think this is a step in a direction we’re all headed, whether we like it or not. And I like it. Though, a lot of people don’t. Peruse the comments that [...]

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A World Without Writers

November 16, 2007 – 12:53 pm

These are very clever. Reminds me of the “Somebody Wrote That” series that the WGA used to have all over their walls and publications. The House one made me burst out laughing.

I stumbled across an alternative, NSFW video clip with the same title that has a sort of puerile entertainment value. Find that here.

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AMPTP Contact Info

November 16, 2007 – 8:00 am

My soon-to-be-laid-off friend Ryan channeled both Franklin W. Dixon and Carolyn Keene yesterday and managed to track down a long list of numbers for various stations at the AMPTP, who kinda keep these things close to the vest. The list reads pretty much as written, which means he can’t vouch for the spelling of [...]

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PLEASE STOP THE STRIKE

November 15, 2007 – 9:11 am

Writers are trying to position themselves to gain proper compensation for new media and to keep producers from taking back what writers deserve. The negotiatons didn’t go well. Now we’re on strike. Simple. But actually, it’s not so simple. First, read this, written by my buddy Ryan, one of the hardest working guys in show [...]

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WGA Strike: Voices Of Uncertainty

November 15, 2007 – 8:21 am

This has been making the rounds. It’s nicely assembled and pulls the words straight from the mouths of executives and turns them back on them, not unlike the Donald Rumsfeld stuff we saw a few years ago (”I never said there were weapons of mass destruction” “Oh really? Let’s watch the tape.” “That was out [...]

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WGA Gets Tough

October 11, 2007 – 9:08 am

The last time there was a full-fledged Writer’s Guild strike, I wasn’t in the Writer’s Guild. That was many many years ago. I remember hearing about the strike and then all of a sudden, Dark Shadows with Ben Cross was on TV. And while I’m in the Guild now, I haven’t actually been an active [...]

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The Monster Is Born

October 10, 2007 – 8:15 am

The monster is the novel. It’s time I stopped planning to write it. It’s time I stopped talking about writing it. It’s time I stopped pondering what to write about. I have options. There are so many things I could write. So many stories to put down into prose. It’s time to get going.
But how [...]

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After Insomnia

September 1, 2007 – 7:26 am

From this morning’s dream log: “His combination of social humor, gallows humor and towering, lizard-man humor seemed inappropriate at the hospital bedside. Especially this morning.”
I can’t help but wonder what it is about that morning that makes towering lizard-man humor less acceptable than others.

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