SE2 D241: Inside the Room Final Script Reading
I’ve turned in another good read with Inside the Room with Below the Fold. I did a fairly substantial rewrite based on the readings at Rewrites, but the result was not quite as enthusiastic as the Rewrites readings or last weeks reading of the teaser at last Saturday’s meeting of Inside the Room. Still, the comments were all very positive. The biggest note or concern was with the pacing. The general consensus was the script was perhaps too fast. It felt more plot oriented and
SE2 D 240: Query Services
What is the value of a query service? We’re about to find out. For those of you who don’t know, a query service will blast your logline (or script) to a large number of managers, agents, producers and directors for a fee. All you have to do is provide the logline and the fee and the service will take care of the rest. The advantage is that you can hit a lot of people at one time. It’s called shotgunning, and you save a lot of effort scouring imdb.com or rifling through a crea
SE2 D239: Rewriting at Rewrites
I’m a member of several different writing groups. At times, I have multiple scripts going and will take a different screenplay to each group as I work through the story. But then there are times I take one script to all the groups. Currently, I am enrolled in REJ’s Inside the Room Television Workshop where the participants are developing a TV series. As we near the final sessions, we will all be presenting our teasers for our respective series. I have worked through the tease
SE2 D234: Inside the Room
Today’s session of Inside the Room, a mock writer’s room workshop sponsored by REJ Entertainment, proved to be quite rewarding. It was not without its difficulties, however. Over the past six weeks, I have been in attendance to this workshop developing a scripted TV series called Below The Fold. The story follows Bobbi Sinclair, a cub reporter for a down-on-its-luck paper in Florida, who finds her life in danger after covering the suicide of a US Senator and falling down a ra
SE2 D232: Keep It Classy, Brian
Writing workshops can be a blessing. They can also be a curse. The good thing is you get to hear your work read aloud in all its wondrousness. On the other hand, the problem with workshops is that you have to listen to other people’s work which invariably fails miserably by comparison with your own. Even worse, you then have to interact, even socialize, with these inferior wannabes who rob you of valuable time that could be better spent contemplating the inspired greatness
