In his article How to write your book faster, Steve Manning claims there are a number of myths about gaining success as an author, such as these: Talent: in order to write a book, the less writing talent you have, the easier it will be for you. If you’re a professional writer right now, it’s [...]

A long road for Alan Ball Getting the needed meetings to get his script for “American Beauty” actually produced [by DreamWorks] only happened some years after Alan Ball [photo] was discovered by a talent scout at Carsey-Werner Television who had seen his play, Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. Never schlep coffee again In a [...]

Preconceptions about the creative process We live with a lot of mythologies and concepts about the “inspiration” and “craft” aspects of expression that influence how we approach doing something creative. One of those ideas is that anything so complex as a film script must necessarily take a long time to develop. But screenwriter James Lamberg [...]