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Writing Tips: What’s a Hook? The Art of the Pitch and Effectively pitching your ideas

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Writing Tips: The Art of the Pitch My Hollywood agent brought me out to L.A. not long ago to pitch a couple of Big Shot TV producers on an idea for a show they wanted me to create. I figured, why not? I flew out there and got into the meeting…
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Power up Your Openings: Writing Tips from Excelling in the Field of ‘Thriller’ Writing

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Writing Tips: Power Up Your Openings "In POWER PLAY and KILLER INSTINCT you had a killer opening that raised not only great story questions but high stakes in a flash-forward moment before returning to a slower paced revealing of the protagonist's…

Drawing Lessons: A Lesson in “Circulism” with Brian Duey

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Drawing Lessons: Circulism "Circulism" is a technique that many artists use in attaining a realistic skin texture in drawing. People's faces are not perfect and should not be rendered so. Circulism is basically drawing very tiny overlapping…

Drawing Lessons: A Lesson in Negative Drawing with Brian Duey

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Drawing Lessons: Negative Drawing When negative drawing, you shouldn't focus on the shape of the object itself, you should focus on the shape of the space around the object. When all the space around the object is shaded, the object will…

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