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Write the way you speak

May 6, 2011 Psych 101, Words on the page

College was the first time I started writing how I speak. Or, more accurately, college was when I stopped trying to write the way I thought I *should* write.

All fiction is fan fiction

April 5, 2011 Psych 101, Random Advice

Sure: everyone’s already linked to Austin Kleon’s wonderful post How to Steal Like an Artist (and 9 things nobody taught me). But I can’t *know* that you’ve read it. And I don’t have better advice for you today, or even this week. So I really recommend you read it, and take some notes.

When to talk about your idea

February 4, 2011 Monsterpocalypse, Preacher, Producers, Psych 101

Lawrence Turman suggests asking random people for their opinions of your concept. Great idea for a producer, but potentially a bad idea for a screenwriter.

All yourselves belong to us

January 13, 2011 Psych 101

The Time Magazine profile on Mark Zuckerberg offers a concise description of what makes me uneasy about Facebook in its current form: the binary definition of friendship.

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