4thWall

I have worked on many tours for corporate that are coming up. As I sit in the office sometimes and get requests for talent whether they are hip-hop artist or gospel artist, just the thought of some of these venues and markets that concerts will be performed at places I have not been (YET!) I […]

The last time I spoke with Jon, like every time I speak with him, his experience shone, highlighting real-life screenwriting concerns that I’ve neglected or to which, until now, I’ve remained oblivious. I still tend to think about writing a TV episode like it’s a short film, and, while that mindset helps in thinking about […]

One of my summer internships is with the Style Network in the Talent & Casting department. I have really enjoyed being exposed to the whole casting process, since I was unable to take a class on the subject. My main duties are to compile a daily trade and blog report, research hot trends in talent, […]

I started to post this as a comment on my friend Eric Lee’s post called “Keep Writing.”  I could not have said it better than that. You hear it again and again: you have to write everyday.  You have to make time and force yourself to do it.  The reason being, the only requirement to […]

Working on corporate videos is a much different animal than working on entertainment.  That seems obvious, but I have been surprised at how different an animal it is. My company’s largest client is a pharmaceutical company called Pfizer, best know as the manufacturer for Viagra.  Allied Pixel does a lot of different projects for this […]

My bosses at Allied Pixel are encouraging me to learn their teleprompter system, because think that I can fill in for them as a freelancer after my internship.  While teleprompter operator isn’t my dream job, right now having income is my dream. On a lot of their shoots, teleprompting is an important part of the […]

For the first time, I got to work on a project that I may actually get to see on TV.  Most of the projects have been internal corporate videos, but we shot commercial spots for Neumann University in Pennsylvania.  I’m not sure whether they’ll air on television or simply be on the Neumann website. All […]

Stephen King famously writes at least 2,000 words a day. One of the things I heard over and over again this past year from a host of different teachers, advisors and professional writers was, “Keep writing.” And though this seems rather unremarkable at first, now I’m starting to appreciate why it’s such important advice and […]

For the first part of this two-part series on the merits of carrying a notebook see my last post, “Little Blue Book.” Unfortunately I spilled a Starbucks “frappuccino coffee drink” on my dining room table this morning and the expanding brown puddle touched the pages of my blue diary. (Indeed it was this event that […]

At the end of each of our sessions, I’ve gotten into the habit of asking Jon questions that don’t relate directly to the project we’re working on: questions about inspiration, process and the life of a writer. At one point I said something like, “I know I had more questions, but now I can’t remember […]