Archive for July, 2007

If you are are a SciFi, Fantasy or Horror writer looking for an artist to colloborate on a comic book project or contest check out ComicSpace.com. It’s like MySpace for Comic Book writers, artists, inkers and letterers. Set up your own page, then start making friends with others who can help you achieve your vision.
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If you are writing or making a SciFi, Fantasy or Horror short film, check out the special effects video tutorials at: IndyMogul.com. They take you step by step in making inexpensive special effects on their You Tube station Backyard FX.
Episodes include transforming your actors into cyborgs or zombies, creating fake brains and breakable glass for […]

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I just got back from a Q&A session with the new head of the Warner Bros. TV Writing Fellowship program, Chris Mack. Here’s the notes about the revamped program:
This year they are taking 10 applicants total ("more drama than comedy because that’s the current marketplace"). For fifteen weeks the Fellows will meet every Wednesday night […]

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DC Comics is launching a WebComic competition starting in October called Zuda Comics. Every month they will take 10 user submitted webcomics that meet their formatting requirements and let their users vote on them. The winner is given a paid contract to produce 52 weekly installments of that comic. Six additional submissions throughout the year […]

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Over at the TVWriter message boards, an applicant who made it to the semi-finalist round in November was surprised to learn the Fellowship wanted to see a second spec script and they wanted it mailed in two days! So if you applied to the fellowship, make sure you have a second spec ready to go […]

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Yesterday, Warner Bros. revamped thier site and the details of this year’s TV Drama Writing Fellowship have changed since my initial post:

Deadline is now August 15, not August 1, 2007
For those selected, the program runs longer and later. It is now every Wednesday 7p-10pm from October 24, 2007 - January 30, 2008 (now 14 weeks […]

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