During the writers’ strike, AI was the enemy. Or that was how it was presented. What was really happening was the corporate overlords aka a handful of people at the top of places like Warner Brothers were looking at ways to chisel AI into the writing hiring equation in order to pretend writers weren’t creating […]
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The book site for The New Screenwriter’s Survival Guide was becoming too much work to maintain for a book that was published so long ago and a site that got pretty much no traffic and I sort of abandoned the website but felt bad the book didn’t have any presence on the web at all […]
Sweet Mother Mary! The SAG-AFTRA strike is over! Yay yay yay! Okay not entirely over, the new tentative agreement still must be ratified by SAG-AFTRA members, but the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee worked hard and hit hard, if they are good with the agreement, I am thinking the membership will be good with it too. This […]
The WGA and AMPTP have reached a tentative agreement. It took 146 days to get there. And part of me, having seen what Business Affairs can do to an agreement and how much red pen it takes to get a contract to actually resemble what was agreed to verbally, I’m pretty sure it will take more days to hammer out “contract speak” in the actual Minimum Basic Agreement. But. We are there.
Writers have won.
It sounds like a real win too. Not the lackluster win of 2008. A real win in 2023. Yay!
Author and award winning screenwriter Max Adams talks screenwriting — and about some of the more than wrong advice you’ll find online and circulating in the industry.
Check out the very cool trailer for Elevator, written by my student Laila Royster. Elevator will be showing at the Sept 27 2023 red carpet student film showcase (6-9 PM) in San Antonio Texas — hosted by Alamo City Studios showcasing 10 students’ short films from the 2023 Eastside Youth Content Creators Program (EYCCP) at […]
Oyez, Saturday screenwriting labs with yours truly, author & award winning screenwriter Max Adams, are back. Yay! The Logline Lab: Saturday September 23rd 2023 8 PM ET on Zoom The Lookbook Lab: Saturday September 30th 2023 8 PM on Zoom These are Saturday weekend labs on Zoom. You want those. Hit ’em!
So SAG-AFTRA has joined the picket lines. There are only roughly 11,000 writers. There are roughly 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members. The strike lines just got much bigger. I’m sort of existential-crises-brain-frozen right now watching the general fuckery of the AMPTP and studios during the strike. But Trae Crowder isn’t. Yay! Watch.
You have been wondering where I am, right? I did not mean to go MIA on you all. I have been teaching with the Eastside Youth Content Creators Program here in San Antonio. EYCCP! Yay! Classes start early in the morning which is normal for other people but not for vampires like me and I […]