“Well, I kind of approach both of them similarly in (that) I always see it as a movie first because that's my background. Cindy Kelley, who has been my writing partner on my novels, she works more on the prose side and the description side of the storytelling because, obviously, there's a lot more of that in a novel than in a screenplay. You only have up to 120 pages in a screenplay.” WritingFirstsWellsKindHas BeensSidesNovelApproachPagesPartnersBackgroundsStorytellingProseDescriptionScreenplaysCindy Author:Michael Landon, Jr.
“The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes in a scene (and) what motivates characters. When you bring a scene to class - as an actor with your scene partner - you have to do everything. There's no producer, set decorator or anything like that. You and you partner have to do everything and that's kind of like facing the blank page as a writer.” WritingKindCharacterActorsActingClassTeachScenePagesTrainingPartnersBackgroundsProducersStakesBlankActing ClassesBlank PagesDecorators Author:Carol Higgins Clark
“I may have been prejudiced against lawyer members of Congress, having run against one or two and having been threatened politically by a few others, and also because my own professional background was academic, principally in the liberal arts. Good lawyers, I asserted in campaigns, can be found in the yellow pages of the telephone books. Good historians, or political and social philosophers, are not so easily found or classified.” MayHas BeensArtTwoBookRunningPoliticalFoundSocialMy OwnMembersPagesCongressPhilosopherLawyerCampaignsBackgroundsHistorianYellowAcademicThreatenedTelephonesLiberal ArtsGood Lawyer Book:Up'til Now: A Memoria Source: Up'til Now: A Memoria
“I come from a background of 40 pages a day. The other side of the coin is quality can suffer a bit on those shows and you can get into some bad habits but thanks to those days, I can do memorization in my sleep.” I CanShowsSufferingBitsSidesCan DoSleepQualityHabitPagesBackgroundsThanksCoinsBad HabitsMemorization Author:Sherri Saum
“People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.” PeopleWantSoundPagesCleanBackgroundsCoughingPages Turning Author:Petra Haden
“The thing that helps me do a good job is that I don't feel the need to explain everything about the world to my reader. I'm not writing a history text on the Four Corners. I'm telling a story that's set there. The setting belongs in the background for the most part, and it's easy for fantasy authors to forget that. That's one of the unfortunate parts of Tolkien's legacy, in my opinion. Read the first hundred pages of the Fellowship of the Ring and you start to get pissed, "Shut up about the Shire's museums! Isn't the world supposed to be in peril or something?"” WorldNeedsFeelsWritingFirstsHelpingStoriesJobsEasyForgetOpinionFantasyFourReaderPagesHundredCornersRingsBackgroundsSettingSettingsSupposed To BeLegacyHelp MeMuseumsUnfortunateShut UpGood JobPerilFellowshipFellowship Of The RingShire Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music.” DifferencesStagePagesBackgroundsFadesBackground Music Author:Stephen Sondheim