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All in Beginnings
We thought it’d be fun to let you guys get to know our contributors a little bit better by exploring their “first times” of genre fiction and geekdom…
Monica Beard and Alex Oakley host a new monthly segment called "Study Up" where they'll take one topic surrounding our monthly theme, go out and explore it, and come back and report about what they learned. This week, they tell us how they started their first podcast.
In this industry, the final product is not the experience. I had such a rich experience working on This World Alone and that will never change no matter how the movie in its finality is received. I believe maintaining focus on process and growth is one of the most valuable lessons I learned…
Writers—stepping away from your laptop-induced solitude and connecting with people is good for you in general. And you want to be sharing your work with peers, getting valuable feedback, and highlighting weaknesses. Taking advantage of table reads and hearing it read aloud will do that in a way that reading it in your head can’t.
It helped me immensely to plan out the book before I started writing it. I love the process of planning out details that will come back later in the story and make you go “OH! OH MY GOSH!!! WHAT?? DID THEY PLAN THAT?” And the answer is...
I think I first realized that such a thing as a director existed when I was 14 years old. The nasty voices immediately started in my head: “Only old white men get to do that fun stuff. Like Scorsese and Coppola and George Lucas. Not women. Especially not tiny hijabi Sri Lankan Muslim women from Dubai.”
Not only was Braid her first feature as writer and director, it was also the first feature film fully funded by cryptocurrency (raising a reported $1.7M in just two weeks). And no, I don’t super know what that means either…
The Goonies, Stand By Me, E.T. The Extraterrestrial. These are all the films that I couldn’t stop thinking about as I watched writer/director Joe Cornish’s latest film, The Kid Who Would Be King…
“Raise funds for your feature? Gain an audience? Oh...and potentially have The Duplass Brothers executive produce? Heck yes!”
“Aye, yo. You see that new movie?” I’m sitting in a cubicle staring at a screen for a job I’m grateful to have but slightly depressed because of. “It’s crazy! You gotta check out this trailer.” …
The thing about beginning anything is IT’S TERRIFYING. And no one really tells you that. You assume that after you create something enough times, that the fear goes away. But unfortunately it...
