MICHAEL WIESE PRODUCTIONS LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITE HI everyone, Eric Edson here. Wanted to pass along something from my heart – how very proud I am to be associated with the publisher of my book The Story Solution: MICHAEL WIESE PRODUCTIONS. MWP is the largest specialty publisher in the world for books on screenwriting, TV writing,…
Women screenwriters are woefully underrepresented in screenwriting. It’s therefore important to note the incredibly talented women who have made major contributions and led the way in the history of filmmaking. Think about it critically for a moment: can you name any top female screenwriters of the 20th century? Most people can’t—and what an injustice that…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 17, 2015, Los Angeles, CA: Writing a screenplay can often be both a tortuous and uplifting process, but the reward for some comes in industry acceptance with the bestowal of an Oscar for best original screenplay. The perfect combination of words, action sequences, characters and acting can lead to industry…
Writers are always searching for that gem of an idea, character trait, or interesting plot device with which to begin fleshing out a new story concept for a treatment or novel. When it’s time to transform that treatment or book to screenplay form, challenges still remain in further developing the story, now using only the…
November 9, 2012 – Northridge, CA – While there are many websites offering information on virtually every aspect of the screenwriting and TV writing process, Eric Edson has identified his 5 Favorite Online Screenplay Libraries. Each provides a slightly different focus and format, but each offers unique features and information that will be of interest to…
My Best Method for Dealing With the Dreaded W. B. To tell the truth, when I am already deep in the middle of a project “Writer’s Block” isn’t a tripwire for me. Getting my inner writer to shut the hell up is more my personal challenge at that stage. But I do have a super…
Let’s just say it ain’t for the faint of heart. Storytellers work exhausting days, ever searching for that gem of an idea or character or plot. Never settling for the almost-right word. Spitballing, outlining, writing, rewriting, rewriting…and then for the filmic storytellers among us, it’s on to shooting. Cutting. Shooting again. Novelists and screen storytellers…
Article written for the book NOW WRITE! Speculative Genres Writers create fiction so they can touch peoples’ hearts. Okay, blurting it out this way does sound a bit cornball. But compressed to its essence, human truth often comes out sounding sentimental. Doesn’t mean it isn’t true. We don’t write just to preach high-toned themes about…
