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A home for creatives. ✍️🎥📖 Est. 2021. 🦊 Fiercely independent. 🏴☠️
"When an acting teacher is giving you notes, it’s essentially a director giving you notes."
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Am I the Drama? Why Writers Should Take Acting Classes
Robert Towne of Chinatown fame wrote the script with Jack Nicholson in mind. Guess where they met? Acting class.
https://pipelineartists.com/am-i-the-drama-why-writers-should-take-acting-classes
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"Moments are earned through emotion and connection."
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You've Got to Earn It
Does the benefit of moving the cathartic moment up, hooking the audience, outweigh the emotion that will come if you steel your nerves and wait?
https://pipelineartists.com/youve-got-to-earn-it
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"Observe whether a producer truly gets what you wrote. Be wary if they seem to be chasing market trends rather than being committed to protecting the unique tone of your project."
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The Producer Vibe Check
This is where writers often fall into the emotional trap of equating “interest” with “momentum.”
https://pipelineartists.com/the-film-producer-vibe-check
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"Even if you didn’t have a name for it before, you’re probably familiar with it, since almost every Hollywood movie follows this formula. Fortunately, there are plenty of examples to the contrary."
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Kill the Cat - Storytelling Structures for Screenwriters Sick of the Hero’s Journey
Raise your hand if you’ve ever been personally victimized by "The Hero’s Journey." Now that every screenwriter’s hand is up ...
https://pipelineartists.com/kill-the-cat-storytelling-structures-for-screenwriters-sick-of-the-heros-journey
3 days ago
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🎬 New Symposium on Wednesday—for both
#screenwriters
and emerging directors. Improve your writing with deeper insights into the filmmaking process. *session is recorded for all who register in advance.
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/direct...
#filmmaking
#scriptchat
#ScriptSky
4 days ago
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"Done well, and paired with excellent pacing and a compelling voice, narrative drive is an essential component to keep readers hooked to the page, reading chapter after chapter, long past when they should have gone to bed."
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The Importance of Emotional Cause and Effect
... character decisions are rooted in their emotions. Those emotions, in turn, are rooted in the character’s core beliefs and their perspective on the world, in their backstory.
https://pipelineartists.com/the-importance-of-emotional-cause-and-effect
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*the following is based entirely on anecdotal evidence. I'm not researching the median price of entertainment in every major North American city plus Europe and Greater Asia, but it's probably pretty accurate, you don't need to factcheck.
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Movies: The Best Deal in America
Either we start going to movies, or the movies start going away.
https://pipelineartists.com/movies-the-best-deal-in-america
5 days ago
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"I one-hundred percent, wholeheartedly, unequivocally believe, with all my soul and every fiber of my being, that the first act of any screenplay is the most important words in that story."
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Your Most Critical Act
Shaky beginnings lead to problems down the road every time without fail.
https://pipelineartists.com/your-most-critical-act
6 days ago
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"Chu didn’t deviate so dramatically in bringing his musical to the screen.... Instead, Chu respected the intellectual property (I.P.) so profoundly that no one has uttered a word about how this or that was left out of the adaptation."
pipelineartists.com/why-wicked-works
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Why Wicked Works
Where Chu was truly brilliant as a director was in his innate understanding of the intimacy of film.
https://pipelineartists.com/why-wicked-works
6 days ago
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From the archives.... "One of the most compelling ways to move your protagonist through every scene in your story is to keep his or her desires just below the surface in the subtext."
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Ways to Approach Desire in Your Main Character
Before we can subtly communicate the desires of our character to the audience, we have to fully understand those desires ourselves.
https://pipelineartists.com/desire-and-character
7 days ago
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"I've left New York multiple times over the years, sworn them off for good, to never return, only to eventually make my way back. I’m not alone in this pursuit to try to live without New York only to find that New York lures me back just by existing."
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New York. What a Character.
They say if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. What they don't tell you is that once you do make it here, you'll never want to make it anywhere else.
https://pipelineartists.com/new-york-what-a-character
7 days ago
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"I one-hundred percent, wholeheartedly, unequivocally believe, with all my soul and every fiber of my being, that the first act of any screenplay is the most important words in that story."
pipelineartists.com/your-most-critical-act
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Your Most Critical Act
Shaky beginnings lead to problems down the road every time without fail.
https://pipelineartists.com/your-most-critical-act
8 days ago
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"Six years old is an interesting age. My memories of life at six are the stuff of my writing: My wonder, my incongruence with society, my processing of my family’s dissolution."
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Fish: And Why It’s Not So Easy To Write What You Know
Because, yes, there is merit to writing what you know—but when you’re in the middle of something, you absolutely do not know it. It isn’t over yet.
https://pipelineartists.com/fish-and-why-its-not-so-easy-to-write-what-you-know
8 days ago
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Calling Frankenstein fans & gothic
#horror
readers. You want to listen to this one. New episode of The Story Will Save You! Author Leila Siddiqui talks about her new book, The Glowing Hours, writing routines, evil twins & so much more.
thestorywillsaveyou.buzzsprout.com/2356701/epis...
#BookSky
9 days ago
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"Trust me. It’s this wall of checklists that keeps you from writing. Your desire to improve has stymied your progress. You need to be rescued. You need to get back to the joy."
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Wait! Don't Trash that Script
As William Goldman said about Hollywood, “Nobody knows anything.” Learn all you can but trust your instincts.
https://pipelineartists.com/wait-dont-trash-that-script
9 days ago
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NEW! Podcast ep of Reckless Creatives w/Matthew Lutz, founder of the Allegory conference, coming to L.A. this March. Listen:
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Reckless Creatives Podcast
Reckless Creatives is the Pipeline Artists original podcast about nothing and everything.
https://pipelineartists.com/reckless-creatives-podcast/
10 days ago
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"A Calling Card script, he said, is a script so good and different that it doesn’t necessarily even need to get made, it just needs to impress the reader with the craft and skill of the writer."
pipelineartists.com/the-calling-card-script
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The Calling Card Script
Did I ever expect it to get made? Nope. Not from the minute I wrote it.
https://pipelineartists.com/the-calling-card-script
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"But it's also about business. When you pitch an exec, they not only want to see a great concept and loads of opportunities for conflict, but they also look for character evolution. Why should we root for this person?"
pipelineartists.com/character-therapy-nowhere-to-hide
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Character Therapy—Nowhere to Hide
Your characters have to overcome their internal demons—and you have to stop protecting them.
https://pipelineartists.com/character-therapy-nowhere-to-hide
11 days ago
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"If you only try to find facts to support your hopes or assumptions, you’ll miss discovering things that could inspire you or help you write an even better story."
pipelineartists.com/becoming-a-researching-powerhouse
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Becoming a Writing Research Powerhouse
If you only try to find facts to support your hopes or assumptions, you’ll miss discovering things that could inspire you or help you write an even better story.
https://pipelineartists.com/becoming-a-researching-powerhouse
12 days ago
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"But theme happens invisibly. It exists underneath the surface, like a secret level in "Starcraft" that you have to work to unlock. You have to dig to find it."
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Theme and Kaijus
Make no mistake, though. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not essential. It very much is.
https://pipelineartists.com/theme-and-kaijus
13 days ago
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"But here’s where writing about such problems/opportunities get truly interesting … what if the hero tackling such negatives is themself a very negative person?"
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Why Grumpy is Great On Screen
Our malaise has ended up yielding plenty of characters who in sunnier times would most likely have been the villains in a story.
https://pipelineartists.com/why-grumpy-is-great-on-screen
14 days ago
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Authors and author-curious, Book Pipeline has re-opened a limited consult package from bestselling author Rea Frey! Learn more:
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Rea Frey
Bestselling author, book coach, and publishing strategist Rea Frey helps writers get crystal clear on their book goals, choose the best publication path, and bring their vision into the world—their…
https://bookpipeline.com/plus/rea-frey
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"To say it another way, understory is what’s going on in the background while your characters are figuring out and going after their goals in the foreground."
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Don't Overlook Your Understory
A screenplay isn’t some mystical thing with a bazillion components. It’s something most writers can master, if you break it down to its simplest, most basic elements ...
https://pipelineartists.com/dont-overlook-your-understory
15 days ago
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"While this may seem basic, executing a successful synopsis is easier said than done, especially when you’re so close to your work. It’s often such a struggle to identify what is necessary to include, and what can be left out."
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A Simple Guide to Writing the Dreaded Synopsis
It’s also important to not forget about the voice and tone of the story when creating your synopsis.
https://pipelineartists.com/a-simple-guide-to-writing-the-dreaded-synopsis
15 days ago
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"That’s the tricky thing about Hollywood success, isn’t it? It’s great to get your foot in the door, but in order to qualify as a working writer, actor, or filmmaker, you have to keep opening the door again and again and again."
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Never Think You're Bigger Than the Gods
If Martin Scorsese doesn’t act bigger than the gods, no one should.
https://pipelineartists.com/never-think-youre-bigger-than-the-gods
16 days ago
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Co-hosts Sadie Dean and Jeanne Veillette Bowerman share the truth, and nothing but the truth, about the challenges and benefits of living life as artists, striving for freedom to create in any medium, even ones you never thought of before.
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Reckless Creatives Podcast
Reckless Creatives is the Pipeline Artists original podcast about nothing and everything.
https://pipelineartists.com/reckless-creatives-podcast
17 days ago
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Explore more about the politics and culture in the arts:
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The District - Pipeline Artists
The politics and culture of the arts. Opinions abound.
https://pipelineartists.com/tag/the-district/
18 days ago
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"What, then, can we expect to give a story, a poem, a treatise? Our time, of course. Our attention."
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Perfectly Ordinary: The Resistible Rise of the ChatBot
Programs like ChatGPT ... according to Noam Chomsky and others, are actually distracting us from the true goal of creating a technology that thinks.
https://pipelineartists.com/perfectly-ordinary-the-resistible-rise-of-the-chatbot
21 days ago
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"Today, the axe split wood, kissing the scar of its blade on the chopping block. It took thousands of cuts to make this."
pipelineartists.com/hurt-fiction
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Hurt
And for a moment, they were how they once were. Ben, the protector. Mariel, the protected. But no, they weren’t the children they used to be.
https://pipelineartists.com/hurt-fiction
21 days ago
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Browse a deep archive of articles for creatives, exploring the Business of Art:
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The Business of Art
The Business of Art explores ways for artists to treat their craft like a business, strategize a plan, and grow a network of supporters.
https://pipelineartists.com/tag/the-business-of-art/
22 days ago
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"The only advice I can offer is to not play the waiting game."
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'Untitled In-Depth Interview Dramedy' with Screenwriters Joshua Paul Johnson and Jamie Napoli
... stepping on set felt like we were walking into some shared, recurring dream.
https://pipelineartists.com/untitled-interview-with-josh-paul-johnson-and-jamie-napoli
23 days ago
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"Regardless, time—the semi-meaningless construct we still maintain for ourselves for some reason in this post-2020 world—is cyclical. And we’re about to see one of those repetitions first hand, like a glitch in the Matrix."
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The Web Series is Dead, Long Live the Indie Series
Someone, eventually, is going to take a risk on a show they don’t have to invest heavily into. Maybe one that’s already made?
https://pipelineartists.com/the-web-series-is-dead-long-live-the-indie-series
23 days ago
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"The entertainment industry is using nostalgia as a marketing scheme, and I’m over it. For an industry that prides itself on creativity, I’m disappointed with its complete lack of originality as of late."
pipelineartists.com/not-another-reboot
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Not Another Reboot
What about good, original storytelling? What about hearing what this generation of cartoonists and filmmakers and screenwriters want to say?
https://pipelineartists.com/not-another-reboot
24 days ago
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"If you ever have a chance to read Linda Burns' resume, you would know exactly the kind of chaos this line producer has faced and you would be amazed."
pipelineartists.com/interview-problem-solving-producer-linda-burns
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Interview: Problem-Solving Producer Linda Burns
"Over time, I realized, you have to read between the lines."
https://pipelineartists.com/interview-problem-solving-producer-linda-burns
24 days ago
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"The good news is: This is not the story of how my marriage fell apart in post-production. The bad news is: I don’t know what this story is, exactly."
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The Trials of Post-Production: An Indie Filmmaker’s Dilemma, Part 1
"... we went this far, let's not leave anything unturned."
https://pipelineartists.com/the-making-of-a-micro-budget-road-movie-part-4
25 days ago
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"Let's say you made the mistake of paying an agent to shop your work. End the relationship, try your best to get your money back, and chalk it up as a learning experience."
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Hard Truths You Probably Don’t Wanna Hear But Should (For Writers): The Return
Unwilling to learn how your given industry works? Then a writing career is not for you.
https://pipelineartists.com/hard-truths-you-probably-dont-wanna-hear-but-should-for-writers-the-return
26 days ago
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"It’s like when ketchup is stuck in the bottle. Something’s in there, but it’s not moving and covering your fries in delicious, sugary tomato goop. And friends, when that happens, it’s time to head to the library and/or local bookstore."
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Inspiration Starts at the Library
... getting out of the house does you good, and it can help open up your brain to new possibilities that a search engine simply cannot.
https://pipelineartists.com/inspiration-starts-at-the-library
27 days ago
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"Even if you’re a seasoned professional, you know this pain intimately. You’ve probably mastered the art of pretending you’re “totally chill about it.” Or you’ve at least developed a few coping mechanisms to address this."
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The "Waiting Game" of Development
The writers who survive longest aren’t the fastest; they’re the most adaptable.
https://pipelineartists.com/the-waiting-game-of-development/
27 days ago
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"He likes the tracks by that stretch of highway barely used. He’s always prepared, carries an extra length of rope, hemp, 1¼-inch thick, made from sustainably sourced jute. His boots sparkle in the moonlight."
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Death by Train, a Love Story
He eats the lies she dishes to him across the space that separates, wingback chair and oxblood fainting sofa.
https://pipelineartists.com/death-by-train-a-love-story
28 days ago
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"It was completely unexpected. The news came totally out of the blue. The shock hit me harder than the full-body slam I took that morning."
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Get Back on the Mat Anyway, Part 2
Stop focusing on all the things you haven't done, and start focusing on the things you have.
https://pipelineartists.com/12-17-get-back-on-the-mat-anyway-part-2
29 days ago
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"The now-deleted tweet continued, “No you fucking can’t. Tangerine had a budget and a custom fitted anamorphic lens adapter. Retire this example. You are gaslighting filmmakers because you’re really saying ‘you don’t want it bad enough.’”
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The iPhone Movie Myth
If the film industry was a meritocracy based solely on effort, or finding a way to make something great with limited budgets, Hollywood would look very, very different. But it doesn’t.
https://pipelineartists.com/the-iphone-movie-myth
29 days ago
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"But being a writer also means you’re often alone, in your own thoughts. You’re not necessarily observing the world the way an actor might."
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Am I the Drama? Why Writers Should Take Acting Classes
Robert Towne of Chinatown fame wrote the script with Jack Nicholson in mind. Guess where they met? Acting class.
https://pipelineartists.com/am-i-the-drama-why-writers-should-take-acting-classes
30 days ago
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"Here’s the uncomfortable truth, y’all: ensemble scripts are some of the hardest reads in the entire spec market. 99% of the time, they aren’t a fun experience for script readers. But that doesn’t have to be the case."
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'Love Actually' is a Great Film ... That I'd Hate to Read
Here’s the uncomfortable truth, y’all: ensemble scripts are some of the hardest reads in the entire spec market.
https://pipelineartists.com/love-actually-is-a-great-film-that-id-hate-to-read
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Are you ready to take your manuscript from rough draft to ready for an agent? Lit agent Sara Wigal has advice. Join us.
symposium.pipelineartists.com/event/polish...
#WritingCommunity
#amwriting
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"I was frustrated it never became anything else. I tried adapting it into a pop-up or picture book for grown-ups, but lacked the skills to create the art or find an agent."
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Script to Screen: How I Taught Myself to Direct
But to actually direct—something scripted no less—felt like a sham. People went to school for that. Or they had climbed the proverbial ladder to earn it.
https://pipelineartists.com/script-to-screen-how-i-taught-myself-to-direct
about 1 month ago
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"Development is never a straight line. In reality, it’s a long, winding, often circular, sometimes maddening process that can span months into years, making delays feel personal and frustrating." Read now on
#PipelineArtists
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pipelineartists.com/the-waiting-game-of-development
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The "Waiting Game" of Development
The writers who survive longest aren’t the fastest; they’re the most adaptable.
https://pipelineartists.com/the-waiting-game-of-development
about 1 month ago
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"Hard as it’s been, I can’t let go of the seductive, ‘What if?’"
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Building a Career as a Creative Immigrant
Hard as it’s been, I can’t let go of the seductive, ‘What if?’
https://pipelineartists.com/building-a-career-as-a-creative-immigrant
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"If your office has you feeling creatively stifled, anxious, or just kind of blah, there's actually quite a lot you can do about it."
pipelineartists.com/writers-block-your-workspace-may-be-the-cause
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Writer's Block? Your Workspace May Be the Cause
Having a psychologist in the family, I've long been aware of the tremendous impact one's environment has on everything from morale and mental wellbeing to the quality of one's work.
https://pipelineartists.com/writers-block-your-workspace-may-be-the-cause
about 1 month ago
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"These are hard questions to answer, especially without being able to read your writing to see what kind of work you’re sending out. Buckle up, friends. You’re in for a ride."
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How to Know When It's Time to Quit, Part 1
You have to actually write a book to get better at writing books.
https://pipelineartists.com/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-quit-part-1
about 1 month ago
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"I have played this game eight times in my life. And eight times, I have cried my eyes out. That’s how deeply the characters and narrative resonate with me." Read now on
#PipelineArtists
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pipelineartists.com/i-played-ffx-with-my-mom-this-is-what-i-learned
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I Played FFX with My Mom ... This is What I Learned
But on this night … something sparked in her. She was intrigued by the premise, the emotion, and how passionately I spoke about the story. She asked if she could experience it, too. She wanted to…
https://pipelineartists.com/i-played-ffx-with-my-mom-this-is-what-i-learned
about 1 month ago
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