Want to write a sitcom spec script that’ll catch the eye of a producer or agent who will hopefully catapult your career? Stuck? One way to jump start your creativity is to investigate the different themes used in most sitcoms so you can come up with the most effective and enticing story to tell. Don’t reinvent the wheel…just improve upon it!
For three years, I’ve taught Food Writing classes online. Last June, a student proposed that I write a Food Writing II class, and start a newsletter. He believed in my ability to publish a profitable e-zine.
He obviously didn’t know my disastrous history as a publisher. I started a community newspaper years ago, only to find the workload too heavy and my bank account too light.
Last week, I told you all that we were considering trading in our pop-up camper for a bigger one. Well, we did it. We traded in our little pop-up camper for a 24-foot RV! Yeehaw!!! Look out, America, here we come!
This week, I want to bring your attention to a stellar publisher who, despite his popularity and fame, always makes times for his readers and for other publishers and editors as well.
This Week:
National Novel Writing Month began five years ago as a way to use the power of deadlines to get writers to complete novels. Participants often are people who say they would like to write a novel “one day,” but without this pressure they would never actually do it.
As a university undergraduate, I was interested in TV writing, not journalism, so working on the school newspaper never entered my mind. Now, years later, I’m suddenly “in demand” as a writer at my alma mater.
We had a horrible case of cabin fever last week, so we took a day trip on Sunday to a small island off the coast of Maine. With the sky clear and blue and the snow-covered mountains in the distance, the drive was beautiful! In Bangor, all the rivers and streams are completely iced over. However, south of Freeport, the rivers are running freely, but still have icy banks.
We stopped at a couple of large antique malls along the way. One had ramps leading from one room to another, and each time we pushed the stroller down a ramp, Max would yell…
I think it’s pathetic that some of the major freelance writing sites are too lazy to keep their boards clean and keep the information on their sites accurate…
Master this muscular prose and you’ll become a better writer who can say more with less. You’ll open new markets for the short, newsworthy articles that populate publications of all sizes and subjects.
