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It’s tough being a writer. You kill several people and you lose your appetite.

August 7, 2022May 9, 2025

I was reading an article on Yahoo News about the making of Clint Eastwood’s western Unforgiven, a big Oscar winner from 1992. The Read More...

Thoughts while reading a digital pile of screenplays.

August 3, 2022March 14, 2026

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If they don’t have a phone number, tell ’em to get lost.

June 10, 2022May 9, 2025

It happened again. I received a call from an older fellow in Hawaii. I’m not sure why he called me, but he had a deal with Read More...

The real-life, super immediate critical priority rush wedding toast story.

May 23, 2022May 9, 2025

Contacting anyone at the very last minute for some service is never a good idea. But stuff happens and occasionally we get a Read More...

Useful advice from a successful screenwriter.

March 9, 2022May 9, 2025

By- A Poster in a Facebook Screenwriting Group (The author does not wish to be otherwise identified) While I’m scrolling through Read More...

Three new wedding-related articles are now online.

February 23, 2022October 3, 2025

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The plus-size Jewish redneck lady has died: The ultimate obituary.

December 21, 2021May 9, 2025

Folks, if you’re a fan of this blog, then you know how much I love great writing. Well, this is the ultimate obituary, Read More...

An angry man called me today about an apparent ghostwriting scam.

October 5, 2021May 9, 2025

This morning I got a call from an angry man. He said he paid us $7,000, nobody’s been answering the phone and he demanded to Read More...

An honest email conversation about dealing with a client who wrote a problematic screenplay.

September 2, 2021May 9, 2025

This is an email conversation between me and one of my writers. I assigned him a screenplay client. And this writer is a recent Read More...

It’s time to put on my big boy pants.

August 28, 2021May 9, 2025

Ever since this business was launched way back in 2002, record keeping, client info, writer info, project assignments and Read More...

My aim is to put down what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way I can tell it.

Ernest Hemingway

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Roald Dahl

What I loved most about calling myself a reporter was that it gave me an excuse to show up anyplace.

Jeanette Walls

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote Quote

Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.

Harlan Ellison

There are three primal urges in human beings: Food, sex, and rewriting someone else’s play.

Romulus Linney

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

Books aren’t written, they’re rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn’t quite done it.

Michael Crichton

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.

Gloria Steinem

Reading and weeping opens the door to one’s heart, but writing and weeping opens the window to one’s soul.

M. K. Simmons

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

It always comes down to characters, and individual stories about courage.

Steven Bochco

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

Robert Benchley

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

E. L. Doctorow

In Hollywood, the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Will Rogers

Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

The fact is, I don’t know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn’t collapse when you beat your head against it.

Douglas Adams

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

The reason 99% of all stories written are not bought by editors is very simple. Editors never buy manuscripts that are left on the closet shelf at home.

John Campbell