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We all remember what happened with Louis CK–back in the pre-COVID world. With the shit-show of 2020, the shit-show of Louis CK just kinda… dropped from the collective mind. Did you know he had a web series? Check this out. It was $31 bucks when it came out. Now it’s just $13. Gets you all […]

One more sampling of the fabulous New York Times, Anatomy Of A Series. Some of the best, most incisive commentary you’ll find. Leading off with with especially timely thoughts from Spike Lee for DO THE RIGHT THING… SPIDER MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE ROMA THE MARTIAN BIRDMAN

OVERHEARD DIALOGUE It gets annoying, doesn’t it? All the experts–and yeah, me too–trying to tell you how to write F-U-N-N-Y? Is such a thing even possible? It’s doubtful there’s a simple answer. . It would be more complex, like at Second City where they provide you with tools to bring out your natural gifts, or in […]

It ain’t workin’. You knew it would take time, you’ve put in your dues, but MAN, that fab career in screenwriting just has not arrived. Is your blind belief in your abilities just delusion? You thinking of bailing? What can you do differently?   You might have fallen prey to one of these traps. Check it out… […]

No idea how there is no evidence this article, written by Allen Glazier, Director of the Slamdance Screenplay Competition, ever existed. So be it. I’ll republish it for posterity. This is a compilation of everything bad he sees in screenplays that come (came?) his way. It first came out on Wordplayer.com quite some time ago […]