WRITING: Writerly Habits

I have a few rituals whenever I write. They change, based on where I am and my state of mind, but I’ve got some fairly stable ones. They’re not superstitions, but rituals-slash-procrastination cycles.

Survival of the Fittest: The 2011/2012 Television Season

This season of television was pretty good. There have been some excellent shows, and some downright terrible ones. The overbearing theme of this season, for me, was impatience. I finally gave up on shows I’ve been losing interest in for years, and even found myself hesitant to devote my time to new shows. I was so [...]

MUSIC: Being a Writer Playlist

A brief playlist that strikes at the heart of some of my feelings about writing and being a writer…

WRITING: The TARA Award, “Best Upper Year Script”

A bit of personal writing news this time around. Every year, my program has an awards show to recognise the best work of the year: the TARA Awards. The winners are selected by industry professionals in the Canadian media field, and it’s considered a huge honour to win one. In the category of “Best Upper [...]

WRITING: Series Pitches Need Focus

I’ve been developing series pitches for The Writersroom in the past few weeks, cherrypicking undeveloped projects from the depths of my computer and creating new ones for it. The process we’re following is: I propose a bunch of brief series pitches, and we slowly narrow them down as a group, based on how everyone feels and [...]

WRITING: Game Design and Writing I

The title might be a bit of a misnomer, in that my passion for game writing and design far outstrips my experience with it. Thus, though I’m fascinated by the subject and can’t wait to try it, I have little more than the teachings of others to go off of. That said, I eventually want [...]

PROJECTS: Small Update

24-05-91 has been retitled in pre-production to Summer ’91. Also, I’m working on a handful of projects that don’t really belong on the Projects page, as they are not scripts, and yet are very script-related. More on those as they develop, but all of them seem poised to offer me plenty to write about…

PROJECTS: Small Steps

Those who pay attention to my Projects page might notice a couple of small shifts…

WRITING: Fanfiction, Reenvisioning and Inspiration

I’ve been involved for the past few months with a fanfiction work. First I was mostly an outsider writing a portion freelance as a favour to a friend, but then I started getting into it and helping out on the planning end. And it’s really a lot of fun. As any regular reader of this [...]

WRITING: Something New

I’ve always been a bit intimidated by feature screenplays. They’re both far longer than most things I’ve written (90-110 pages, compared to 50-something for a dramatic pilot), and yet somehow, also unbearably short. After all, a great television show will run for five-plus years; a movie ends after a couple of hours. Even if you [...]