Tweet Write On! Breaking eBook Barriers By Joel Stratte-McClure Why did I decide to publish my latest travel narrative—The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Madness and Magic on the Mediterranean—on Apple iBooks with detailed interactive maps, scores of informative hyperlinks and 200 seductive photographs? I was responding to suggestions by readers of my 2008-published book [...]
Tweet Moving Write Along – Advice from the Experts: Beware of the Most Popular Hollywood Pitching Formula By Stephanie Palmer, author of Good in a Room I imagine you have heard a pitch like, “It’s Avatar meets Die Hard!” or “It’s The Hangover meets Bridesmaids!” The most popular pitching formula in Hollywood takes successful movies [...]
Tweet Becoming Smunny: Striking the Balance between Smutty and Funny by Arlene Schindler, The Last Place She’d Look I was a writer in search of my own voice, struggling for years to find my own unique approach to storytelling. As a former writer for Playgirl, I was well acquainted with scenarios that began, “This has [...]
Tweet Question: How much money should I expect for my idea, treatment, or screenplay? Answer: If you’re not a member of the Writer’s Guild, then you’re not subject to receive Guild minimums for the sale of your material. You’re at the mercy of whatever the buyers want to pay. These are the general parameters of [...]
Tweet Write On: 5 Things You Need to Know to Write About Fashion by Sarah Pollack Boyd, Simply Stylist I made the transition to blogging about a year ago to start Simply Stylist: an event series that includes valuable networking, fashion & beauty expert panels, and designer shopping sales. To create buzz around my events, I started [...]
Tweet Thanks, Carolyn Howard-Johnson, How To Do It Frugally series, for joining us for the January Write On Meeting on Blog Talk Radio. Read the recap and listen to the show. Post your February Goals on Write On Online or Facebook and be entered in a drawing to win a book from Michael Wiese Productions. Also post 2012 Accomplishment and 2013 [...]
Tweet Today, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced the nominations for the 85th Annual Oscars. Original Screenplay Michael Haneke, Amour Quentin Tarantino, Django Unchained John Gatins, Flight Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, Moonrise Kingdom Mark Boal, Zero Dark Thirty Adapted Screenplay Chris Terrio, Argo Lucy Alibar and Benh Zeitlin, Beasts of the [...]
Tweet Happy New Year, Writers! I love the start of the new year. It’s a clean slate, a reboot. Time to set goals and start planning out how to achieve them. Is 2013 the year you write that novel, non-fiction book, or screenplay? Are you going to start a blog, finally tackle social media, or [...]
Tweet Write On! The New Year & New Worlds of Story by Patrick A. Horton, PhD, The Story Coach There are great teachers of story who point out that a key moment in any narrative is when the world opens up in a ‘gap’ and behaves in some way that is unexpected, unwanted and, in [...]
Tweet Happy Thanksgiving, Writers! I hope everyone had a meaningful holiday, filled with food, fun, and friends! Thanks to all of you for being part of the Write On! community. I feel very fortunate to know such a fabulous and diverse group of writers. Today, on our Facebook Page, I asked: “What writing resource (app, [...]
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