Screenwriting Tips That Work for Authors of Books by Renée J. Lukas In this series, I’m focusing on screenwriting tips that also work for writing novels. Tip #3 Your protagonist doesn’t necessarily have to be likable. But it helps if she’s relatable. What? That can’t be! You’ve followed the screenwriting commandments that have been drummed [...]
Screenwriting Tips That Work for Authors of Books by Renée J. Lukas In this series, I’m focusing on screenwriting tips that also work for writing novels. Tip #2 Give your protagonist obstacles. Then make it worse. Nobody wants to read a story where everyone gets along, the end. Boooring. A story depends on conflict; it [...]
Why Netflix Original Series are Surpassing Standard Hollywood Fare by Renée J. Lukas It had to happen sooner or later. You can only have so many decades of telling the stories of straight white men when society is much more diverse than that. For Hollywood, it’s proving to be bad business. There’s been a [...]
A few weeks ago, I saw Boy George and Culture Club in concert on a reunion tour. It was fantastic. His voice was still powerful, and he had that familiar, sassy humor that doesn’t give a crap what percentage of the audience is straight or gay. I realized the last time I saw him was 33 years [...]
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