by Diane Drake | Jun 3, 2013 | News
The WGA held an event last evening to announce and celebrate the 101 Best Written Television series of all time. The inspiring, talented panel included the brilliant Carl Reiner, hilarious as ever (at 91); Norman Lear, (“All in the Family”), Vince Gilligan...
by Diane Drake | Apr 29, 2013 | Blog, News
The Writers Guild Foundation and the Humanitas Organization, (a wonderful group – more on them here), are co-sponsoring what sounds like a terrific panel called “I Wish I’d Written That – What Makes a Great Movie” featuring writers...
by Diane Drake | Mar 24, 2013 | Blog, News, Writing Tips
I recently had the pleasure of doing another interview, this one on screenplay design, with the fab Ann Baldwin and it’s now up on a terrific site called “Women and Hollywood” run by Melissa Silverstein. In it, I cover what I consider some of the...
by Diane Drake | Feb 11, 2013 | Blog, News, Writing Tips
I like to think we’re all this, in a good way. I’ve long believed that a sense of forward momentum is one of the essentials to human happiness, everyone wants to feel like they’re progressing in life in one way or another. It’s like that old advertising tag line,...
by Diane Drake | Jan 17, 2013 | News
For those not familiar with #scriptchat, it’s an online gathering of writers of all levels that takes place live on Twitter at #Scriptchat on Sunday evenings, 5pm Pacific time. I’ll be participating on Sunday, Jan, 27th, and the evening will be hosted by...
by Diane Drake | Dec 12, 2012 | Blog, News, Writing Tips
THE IMPORTANCE OF CONFLICT In the world at large the idea of peace on Earth is a noble, if seemingly unattainable, goal. But in the world of drama, it’s death– because the essence of “drama”, (and by that I mean both drama and comedy), is conflict. If there are...
