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Pilot script week?

Since it’s almost Christmas (give or take 5 months and a half) and also since I received such an (un)large number of request, whether it to be in the comment section or on my e-mail (yes I have an e-mail, look at your right), as well as because I’m just too cool for school (after all, I’m on vacation right now), I have decided that I would post right here right now for a week (or until I’m shutdown) all the pilot scripts I talked about yesterday.
Yes I’m that cool, and suicidal.

If you intend to share or else those scripts please link back to this site and e-mail me any complaints.
Comments are always appreciated.

Captain Cook’s Extraordinary Atlas
Dollhouse
Good Behavior
Men of a Certain Age
The United States of Tara
The Unusuals
Warehouse 13

I am now going into hiding.

EDIT: New “Box” links added. Because Box is great.
EDIT2: Pilot script week is over! Thanks everyone! Enjoy the blog.

The (winning) Books

It’s Amazon day it seems as I’m about to promote another bunch of books…but here fortunately related to writing.

Jill Golick just posted about summer readings, and especially about what she is going to read, Pamela Douglas‘ Writing the TV Drama Series.
I read that book a couple of months ago and found it very interesting. As I also said in a comment I posted on her article, my next read will be Larry Brody‘s Television Writing from the Inside Out which promises to be an interesting read. It seems to delve more on the technical aspect of writing for TV.

Nontheless, with Douglas’ book earlier this year, I also read other interesting writing books:
– Successful Television Writing by Lee Goldberg and Willliam Rabkin (Kindle Link)
– Crafty TV Writing by Alex Epstein

I read as well books that pertained more about the biz and what goes on “Behind the Scenes”:
– A Martian Wouldn’t Say That compiled by Leonard B. Stern and Diane L. Robison (quick read but hilarious -or is it scary?-)
– Desperate Networks by Bill Carter (Kindle Link)

Last but not least there was also this book that is more a bible in itself: This Business of Television, by Howard J. Blumenthal and Oliver R. Goodenough.

If you get your hands on any of these books I strongly suggest you read them, they are just awesome (and incidentally full of advice).

The Procrastinator

Just came across this interesting article about how to write a genre movie in 7 days.

Since I’ll soon be out for about a month without Internet access nor anything else really I think I’ll try it out in the wild!

The big problem against writing anything is probably procrastination, and to be honest I’m a huge procrastinator, so this is gold.