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Month: April 2023
How to get started (and get paid) writing music for sync licensing
Though working on improving your creative processes never hurts, you’ve probably not considered that among the many forgotten old tracks and unfinished projects on your hard drive, it’s totally possible that there’s some perfectly sync-able material just waiting to be unearthed. Sync licensing companies offer the means to offer up your roster of tracks to […]
The Unbearable Costs of Becoming a Writer
My parents didn’t understand my job. At least, not in its entirety. If asked, they might tell people that their daughter was a writer. They were both avid readers who read my first book and many of my stories; once, when I visited them, I found a newspaper article I’d written stuck to their refrigerator […]
Writer’s Club’s goal is to preserve memories
Memories of childhood, thoughts of people loved lifetime experiences, unforgettable happenings. Most of us want to preserve these thoughts because they are precious to us as we age. We hope our children and grandchildren will read the stories we write and want to know more about what we did and the legacy we leave, and […]
Writer’s Block: The 4 Answers You Need To Overcome It Once And For All
If one issue keeps writers from becoming successful authors, it’s writer’s block. Writer’s block, imposter syndrome, and simply not following through with finishing keeps many writers from achieving their dreams. However, today I will give you four answers you can use to overcome this block once and for all. In this article, I discuss writer’s […]
Writers & Studios Could Hold More Talks Over Next Two Weeks, Eschewing Break, But Strike Authorization Still Expected
We might be getting somewhere after it emerged that the writers and studios could hold more talks over the next two weeks. Deadline understands that there is a proposal in place for the two sides to potentially talk next Tuesday. This is a significant step in the negotiations between the WGA and AMPTP as there […]
Author Cathy Kelly explains her joy writing of community and family connections
Even after over a quarter of a century of writing, author Cathy Kelly says she never worries about running out of ideas. Her current novel, number 22, The Wedding Party, is out in paperback while she’s ‘nearly finished number 23’ when we chat. “Every day something new pings into my brain,” says Cathy from her […]
What is Symbolism
One of the most exciting things about consuming art, whether that art is a T.V. show, painting, or novel, is dissecting the layers of meaning within a given piece. There’s the literal things which happen in the novel, and then there’s the symbolic meaning—and the thing is, you probably already pick up on a lot […]
‘The Power’: How an All-Female Writing Staff Fueled Prime Video’s Gender Dynamic Flipped Sci-Fi Series
“The Power” has arrived on Prime Video, and it marks a somewhat rare occurrence on television: a show about and for women, directed almost entirely by women. Naturally, that was pretty appealing to the women in it — but also to some of the men. The series, adapted from Naomi Alderman’s 2016 book of the […]
