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The Strange Rise of the Writers’ Space
This New Yorker piece has an interesting take on what writers' spaces are all about: "As with the gym, at the writers’ space you feel less ridiculous spending your time on an activity with uncertain and elusive benefits: everyone else is doing it, too. It’s a cocoon that protects its inhabitants from a world where most … Continue reading The Strange Rise of the Writers’ Space
Brand New Website!
We are so excited to be launching our brand new website. For those of you who have recently started reading this blog and/or following us, here is some information on who we are. We're a coworking space that caters to writers, so naturally we wanted to start a blog with the same intention. We hope you've been … Continue reading Brand New Website!
Interesting Stuff to Read this Week
Every week, we accumulate articles that we think would be of interest to writers - Hollywood news, stories or Op Eds from incredible writers, interviews, studies, anything worth a read. Here's this week's roundup. Enjoy. Fast Company weighs in on The Future of Hollywood. Oliver Sachs on his terminal illness. A beautiful piece. Millenials are saying SEE … Continue reading Interesting Stuff to Read this Week
The Dialogue: Learning from the Masters
A few years ago, the owner of theOffice, Aleks Horvat, produced a series of in depth interviews with some of today's most successful screenwriters and released them on DVD. Now, for the first time ever, they are available on Youtube in full. The interviews are over an hour long and provide incredible insight into what … Continue reading The Dialogue: Learning from the Masters
“Can You Read My Script?”
I’ve been on both sides of this question. It seems pretty harmless, doesn’t it? When someone asks me to read their script, I always say yes. As a writer myself, I know it is not always an easy thing to ask. From there, it goes down like this: They send over the script. And it’s never … Continue reading “Can You Read My Script?”
QOTD
"The odds of making it as a screenwriter always seem daunting… If you took every single person that said, “I want to be a writer,” in Hollywood, everybody who ever said that, then the percentage of people who actually make it in terms of actually being a working writer would be extraordinarily small. But then, … Continue reading QOTD
QOTD
Oscar winning screenwriter Chris Terrio on Argo. There were definitely moments where I worried that I wasn’t giving a comprehensive enough version of this moment in history. As American filmmakers, we can never tell a comprehensive story about the plight of people in Iran at that moment, but the film — without ever losing the … Continue reading QOTD
QOTD
Behn Zeitlin, writer/director of Beasts of the Southern Wild, on working and living in Louisiana. Me and Louisiana are involved in a epic romance that has spiraled completely out of control. I was supposed to get home in October 2006 and that obviously hasn’t happened. It was like I showed up to have a brief … Continue reading QOTD
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