Archive for the 'Ops' Category

• e  5 Audition scenes

  When you’re auditioning actors for a role, the scenes as scripted are sometimes not especially useful. The solution: write new material specifically for casting.

• e  25 Writing silent scenes

  Always treat your readers like audience members, and think about it from their perspective.

• e  31 Ops stops

  One strange aspect of writing a blog is recognizing that one’s online narrative doesn’t always match up very well with reality. There is a lag between when events happen and when you write about them.

  Take for example Josh Friedman’s recent and scary brush with kidney cancer. As his real-life neighbor, I knew he [...]

• e  24 Two sides to the story

  Right now, we’re starting casting for Ops, the Fox pilot we’ll hopefully shoot after the holidays. Since most readers out there have never been through network casting — or any casting — I thought I’d talk you through the process. Or at least, the start of the process.

  The first thing we had to [...]