With the reboot of The Son Also Writes, I noticed that the keynote book for modern parents, written by Adam Mansbach, has also grown. It now encompasses three books. Starting with the now modern classic Go The F**k to Sleep, Adam has written two sequels to it, with the soon-to-be classic You Have to F**king … Read more »
10 Greatest Books About Screenwriting
Get your nose in these excellent (and essential) books on screenwriting! I will preface this list by saying that the… The post 10 Greatest Books About Screenwriting appeared first on The Script Lab. Read more »
10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Revising Your Screenplay
Writing is revising and revising is writing and so on and so forth until the end of time. It’s easy… The post 10 Questions to Ask Yourself When Revising Your Screenplay appeared first on The Script Lab. Read more »
How to Use the ’36 Dramatic Situations’ as a Brainstorming Tool
Everything in the room you’re in can be described from one point of view with the Periodic Table of Elements… The post How to Use the ’36 Dramatic Situations’ as a Brainstorming Tool appeared first on The Script Lab. Read more »
How to Use Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory in Your Writing
“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” – Ernest Hemingway… The post How to Use Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory in Your Writing appeared first on The Script Lab. Read more »
6 Writing Tips from Wes Anderson
Let’s not lie to ourselves… we all want to live in one of Wes Anderson’s picture-perfect, super-symmetrical, over-saturated worlds. The… The post 6 Writing Tips from Wes Anderson appeared first on The Script Lab. Read more »
How to Improve Your Writing Skills: Take Your Writing from Good to Great
Soooo… you’ve been writing for a while. Maybe you seriously got into writing fiction a year ago; maybe you’ve been a freelance writer for three or four years now. Maybe you started writing a book and it didn’t go anywhere. You know you want to improve your writing, but you don’t know HOW. What do … Read more »
12 Places to Find Online Transcription Jobs, Plus How Much Each Company Pays
I love typing, but I have zero creative writing ability. ZERO. I’ve blogged before, but it usually means sitting for hours at my computer with a few clumsy sentences written and no ideas for how to proceed. When I got pregnant with my first child, I wanted to take something I knew I was really … Read more »
Working With a Designer? Here’s How to Structure Your Copy in Google Docs
Writing is not always a solo act. When you work in the sphere of digital marketing, writers often work closely with designers to bring websites, pamphlets, ebooks and graphics to life. The most skilled writers within digital marketing must enter every project with design in mind. That means carefully structuring your copy, considering how text … Read more »
40 Free Writing Contests: Legitimate Competitions With Cash Prizes
Have you ever Googled “writing contests”? Many require “reading fees” or prizes — like seeing your work in print — that you can only receive if you pay for it. Some legitimate contests do charge small entry fees, but often a fee can be a red flag for a scam, so those might be the … Read more »
How Much Does It Cost to Self-Publish a Book? 4 Authors Share Their Numbers
You want to self-publish your book, but budgeting for the process is more challenging than it looks. The numbers you hear from experts regarding the costs of self-publishing are all over the board. Do authors really manage to release quality books without paying for professional editing, design, marketing and other services? Or will you have … Read more »