Category: Writing and Business

How I’m Doing This

If you’re not accurate, you’ll cause untold trouble. American film producer, screenwriter and film studio executive, David O. Selznick was born on this day in 1902 (died 1965). Selznick, of course, is best known for producing Gone with the Wind and Rebecca. Both films won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Selznick had a plan …

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Second edit to the right, straight on ’til morning

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. Scottish novelist and playwright, Sir James M. Barrie, was born on this day in 1860 (died 1837). Every working writer knows that the route to success is simply to submit, submit, submit. The rejection letters will far outnumber the contracts. More often …

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