GLAWS Rewrites Itself
The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society is an active group. We have critique groups that meet once or twice a month, depending on the group, we have monthly Special Speaker Events that are open to the public and we, along …
Category: Writing
What I’m learning along the path to becoming a writer.
What Have I Been Doing With All This Extra Time.
Sometimes I just like to have fun and play one of my favorite refrigerator games, “Name That Leftover”. But you can really only play it once a month. Or every two months. Three or more months gets really challenging. And …
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What if we had just called it the flu all along?
Words have meaning. Words have power. Our choice of words determine how we process information. Recently President Trump got flack for calling Covid-19 the “China Flu”. One reporter asked him if that wasn’t racist. Well, no it isn’t. China isn’t …
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WHAT NOT TO SAY
The first GLAWS special speaker event of the year was held last weekend on Saturday, January 17, 2015. The topic was “What Not to Say to an Editor or Agent” with speaker Steven Hutson. Mr. Hutson is a literary agent …
A NEW BEGINNING
New Year is a great time to restart and reboot. So first off, sorry for being away for so long. It started with me missing a week, then another, then another. So I finally decided that instead of trying to …
Bronies Anonymous
Hi. My name is Dennis Amador Cherry and I’m a brony. I guess it started a few years ago when somepony someone showed me the first couple of episode of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic”. I thought it was …
The Dreaded “Info Dump”
Often in a story a character has to learn some pieces of information in order for the plot to keep moving. Sometimes it’s a few lines, sometimes it’s a whole lot of information that threatens to bring the fast …
Book Review: “Screen & Stage Marketing Secrets” by James Russel
I really should have reviewed this book earlier. When I attended USC Cinema/Television we spent a lot of time on screenwriting, but not a lot of time on how to sell a script. Then, years later, when I picked …
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Who Are You Writing Your Screenplay For?
Hopefully your first answer is for yourself. Because you have something to say. You have a message, or a point of view you want to share. Or you thought of something funny and a good joke needs to be …
Buy the Saddle
An old friend of mine once told me something. I don’t know where he heard it, but it’s very true. “If one man says I’m a horse, I’ll ignore him. If a second man says I’m a horse, I’ll slug …