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I need to know if anyone's seen a structural paradigm for a one hour TV drama? Like a Blake Snyder beat sheet but for TV. I can't find one, could use help. Thanks!

Only have about 5 teams for a fantasy football league. Last call for teams or we shelf it until next year.

Only have about 5 teams for a fantasy football league. Last call for teams or we shelf it until next year.

Holy crap! The writers of Breaking Bad are working on the highest level of storytelling I've seen on television this side of the final season of The Shield.

Very thankful for this community. My pilot is getting read at a few places and I'm preparing a pitch document for it. You guys rock!!!

Damn - two years in a row my little horror spec finished in the top 10-15% of Nicholl's but missed the quarterfinal cut. Guess it's time for another rewrite then onto the next one!

Thinking of getting a MFA in screenwriting... thoughts?

Analyzed MY FELLOW AMERICANS last night regarding a project I'm developing and, though the humor's a bit dated at times it's a tight, solid comedy.

Currently obsessed with Top of the Lake

Meeting tomorrow - albeit to write the VO for a documentary - but writing is writing . . . right?

Took a week off... ended up reading a dozen scripts.

Forgot to Mention! It was Babyjane Productions that recently optioned my psycho-thriller "The Cuckoo's Plight".

anyone here do script reading/coverage professionally here in LA? how does one go about getting into that field?

What's the tracking on Lone Ranger? If it bombs, I'm picking up Disney stock. But it looks good so I don't WANT it to bomb, despite my lust for gold, ya know?

My psycho-thriller has just been optioned. It's titled: "The Cuckoo's Plight”. Jim Sheridan who directed "My Left Foot" – from which Daniel Day Lewis won an academy award - is onboard as an executive producer.

Anyone know a film or show with the milieu of paparazzi life and/or a paparazzo as a principal character?

I don't think the general viewing public will jump for 50 let alone 150, George Lucas... http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Steven-Spielberg-George-Lucas-Predict-Movie-Industry-Implosion-38049.html

FADE OUT!!! First draft of HELL HOLE complete. Logline: Kept under wraps, but said to be a horror-thriller franchise in the vein of THE GRUDGE and THE CORE.

Google’s In the Box Office Prediction Game Now: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/google-unveils-model-predict-box-563660

TIMECOP REMAKE should be about someone going back in time to stop the making of the original film so the remake feels fresh.

Any Shawshank Redemption fans here? Fyi we're doing a teleconference in 30 minutes, "Story Mapping Shawshank" with the I.S.A. Free: http://t.co/SJc6BPfReR

Scrivener on sale for $20 right now. Get it, it's the bees knees: http://www.amazon.com/Literature-Latte-SCRWINREG-Scrivener-Download/dp/B0079KJB54

Casting Dennis Leary in 'Draft Day' is genius.

Did anyone watch the Walking Dead finale? What a mess...While there was one major scene that I loved (think you might be able to guess which - it was the big one) the idea of "resolution" in the manner presented? Horrible. Just...horrible.

Going through a writing dry spell. Almost been a month. Feeling kind of crappy about it. Anyone else ever have a long period of no writing?