Quotation for the Week of January 29

"McCabe's Law: Nobody _has_ to do _anything_."
-- Charles McCabe

Quotation for the Week of January 22

"Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously."
-- Hunter S.Thompson

Quotation for the Week of January 15

"The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps."
-- Benjamin Disraeli

Random Screenwriting Links

This blog has always been about independent writing of various types. When I started it, I was a freelancer and fiction writer. Now, I'm a published fiction writer. However, I've always harbored the hope of going into screenwriting, and I now have an opportunity to explore this kind of writing more seriously.

One that I've decided to act upon.

So, I thought I'd provide some of the screenwriting resources I've run across over the years that seem particularly interesting.

Writers Guild of America, West -- among other things, the WGA is where screenwriters register scripts, in order to establish that they created them. FYI, registration is not the same as filing for federal copyright protection. Even so, it establishes a record of the date of creation of the screenplay and the name of the creator. The organization has other benefits, which you can read about on the site.

Writers Guild of America, East -- same story, different coast.

Women in Film and Video -- an organization that (among other things) holds conferences, seminars and provides resources and networking opportunities for indie filmmakers.

Screenwriting for Hollywood -- an awesome blog with loads of information, particularly for aspiring screenwriters.

Scriptwriting in the UK -- I'd say the name says it all. However, whoa! -- take a look at Danny Stack's credits -- impressive!

The Artful Writer -- Craig Mazin and Ted Elliott give you the straight poop on screenwriting. Although updating looks a bit spotty, the writing reads like a dream.

Filmutopia's Sunday Morning Movie Blog -- this blog looks really awesome, but it also looks like the blogger ran out of time or things to say. :( But the archives are there for your perusal.

Anyway, that's a random sampling. I'll be on the lookout for more.

Meanwhile, I'll be working on screenplays for films with a more modest budget than this one.

Quotation for the Week of January 8

"If it weren't for my lawyer, I'd still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging."
-- Joe Martin

Independent Writers Always Get to Choose

Well, it looks like Amazon's Kindle Fire got off to a roaring start over the holidays. Although, the article questions whether it can compete with Apple's iPad2 (or is it iPad3? -- oh, who's counting?).

And here's some very uplifting interesting news about the Nook tablet.

So don't forget that indie authors can publish ebooks through PubIt! and Smashwords.

And Smashwords lets you offer free promotions for however long you want on whatever titles you select. And it provides ebooks in all formats -- for any ereader. Kindle, Nook, Sony, Kobo, etc., etc.

Just so you know.