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Five Ways to Maintain a Healthy Writing Practice

Web2. Stay connected. Unless you are working in a writer's room, writing is by nature a solitary pursuit. With this in mind, it is so important to maintain a healthy connection with your creative network. Checking in with fellow writers is a terrific way to share ideas, get eyes on your work and keep each other on track.

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In the Interest of Accuracy: A Conversation with Kate Folb M. Ed

WebSadie Dean: You work for a great organization that does so much in terms of resources, providing accuracy for storylines surrounding health, science, climate – the list goes on.Please give us a brief overview of the Lear Center and Hollywood Health and Society. Kate Folb: Founded by Norman Lear in 2001. The Lear Center was founded in …

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Meet Medical TV Advisor Dr. Oren Gottfried

WebBesides being the Clinical Vice Chair at the Duke University Department of Neurosurgery, Dr. Oren enjoys providing creative and technical expertise as a medical consultant and writer for television series. He always values the opportunity to assist writers and production teams. His work in TV began in 2010 after a cold-call from a producer.

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Why “Touch Grass” is Actually Great Advice for Screenwriters

WebSince your mind is your whole job, you might be interested to know it improves brain function too. There's a ton of research showing how spending time in natural environments (ideally 2 hours or more per week) reduces stress, improves emotional and mental health, and boosts creativity.One experiment even showed that glancing out a …

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INTERVIEW: 'The Last of Us' Writer Neil Druckmann

WebSince its release in 2013, The Last of Us has been ripe for the cinematic universe. The multi-award-winning Naughty Dog game struck a chord with a wide demographic range, eliciting emotions from tweens and adults alike. The post-apocalyptic Stygian world that main characters Joel and Ellie have to navigate is one that only the …

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Hollywood, Health & Society Announces Contest Call for Script …

WebHollywood, Health & Society’s first Blue Sky Scriptwriting Contest is accepting entries for TV stories that take place in a future in which we would actually aspire to live and thrive.

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Writing as Therapy: A Conversation with HYPOCHONDRIAC Writer …

WebIf Addison Heimann isn’t on your radar, he should be. His first feature HYPOCHONDRIAC premiered at SXSW this year and created quite a buzz. In the vein of Donnie Darko, the protagonist Will’s subconscious manifests in eerie, dangerous ways.His childhood trauma rises to the surface and has an adverse effect on him.

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Fit to Write: Health and Exercise Tips for Creative Types

WebI checked in with my fit-minded writer friends to get their health tips as well. Here are the top five: Make movement part of your writing process. One writer friend jogs while dictating notes into his iPhone. Another plans long walks to coincide with her story development. Ditch the Junk.

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Screenwriting Resources

WebBy Script Magazine Feb 7, 2013. Screenwriter resources help screenwriters not only deepen their knowledge of screenwriting but allow them access to actual tools they can use when writing their own material. Each one of the screenwriter resources listed, brings its own unique perspective of the craft of screenwriting to the screenwriter trying

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It Depends – Health and Safety and You

WebThe considerations that fall under the health and safety banner aren’t the most glamorous, nor the most creative or even seam the most efficient financially, but they are essential to the successful completion of a project with the barest minimum risk of life, limb and dollars in the long run. Especially in times like these, considerations of keeping …

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Ask Phil: Feeling Rejected

WebAsk Phil: Feeling Rejected. As a therapist, I work with clients on improving their mental health. As a screenwriter, I work with writers on improving their craft. This column will be a place where I can do both. This week, I answer a question about dealing with rejection. Phil Stark. Nov 14, 2023.

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How Filmmakers Gita Pullapilly and Aron Gaudet Found Loss and

WebScript's Editor Sadie Dean interviews filmmaking team Gita Pullapilly and Aron Gaudet about their new comedy film QUEENPINS, how they came across this true story, taking creative liberties in grounding the comedy, collaborating, forging a new path in Hollywood and so much more.

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Complicated, Nuanced, and Layered Characters: A Conversation …

WebShowrunner Debra J. Fisher shares with Script her connection to Sarah Lampert's pilot script, her writing journey, the three significant buzzwords in the writers' room, the importance of mentorship, bringing women …

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Respecting the Original Source: Branden Jacobs Jenkins Talks …

WebIt stars Mallori Johnson as Dana, Micah Stock as Kevin, Ryan Kwanten as Thomas, and Austin Smith as Luke. The highly-anticipated 8-episode series premiered exclusively on Hulu on December 13, 2022. Branden recently spoke with us about the challenges of adapting the much-loved Octavia E. Butler novel.

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Endings: The Happy, The Sad and The Ambiguous

WebThe final season of Games of Thrones has finally aired, and some viewers are not happy. They’re so unhappy, in fact, that a petition online to (quote) “Remake Games of Thrones Season 8 with competent writers” has now reached over 1.6 M signatures worldwide. Scrolling down the comments, a recurrent complaint stands out, ‘We …

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WRITERS ON WRITING: Tate Taylor's Story Behind Adapting The …

WebScript Magazine. Sep 28, 2017. As a New York Times Hardcover Fiction Best Seller and one of the most blockbusting films of the summer of 2011, The Help found its bearings in a childhood friendship between the novelist and filmmaker. Writer-director Tate Taylor discusses how his belief in his friend Kathryn Stockett meant that he was going to

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Reel Impact: Movies and TV That Changed History

WebSometimes it’s history. Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon in "The China Syndrome" -. Leo Szilard was irritated. Reading the newspaper in a London hotel on September 12, 1933, the great Hungarian physicist came across an article about a science conference he had not been invited to. Even more irritating was a section about Lord …

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Behind the Lines with DR: Child Actors

WebDoug Richardson's first produced feature was the sequel to Die Hard, Die Harder.Visit Doug's site for more Hollywood war stories and information on his popular novels.. I sat on the set in my designated director’s chair. Not directing, I might add.

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