“A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.” Has BeensBookStoriesPagesSeriesFinals Author:Richard Denney
“To write three series a year you only need to commit to writing 10 pages per day, or editing 50 pages of text per day. Plus, writing is my job, and I need to write to eat, so I'm highly motivated to get up and get to work!” NeedsWritingYearsJobsThreePagesSeriesCommitGet UpPlusMotivatedEditing Author:Victoria Laurie
“The actual time you're acting is miniscule compared to the time you're getting ready to do the work. The big difference on series television is, there's not a lot of hanging-out time. You're pumping those pages out, you're doing six, seven, eight pages a day. And I like that pace.” BigsDifferencesActingTelevisionReadySixPagesSeriesSevenEightHanging OutPace Author:Joe Mantegna
“To a large extent: it's about economy of space. You have so little real estate when you're writing a half hour show. It's really twenty minutes. So you have to with a pilot introduce all your characters, set up the premise in a way that shows the potential for a series and make it funny and do it all in about thirty-five or forty pages. It's very hard.” WayWritingLittlesRealHardCharacterShowsHoursSpaceHalfEconomyFiveMinutesPagesTwentiesSeriesThirtyFortyPilotsIntroducingEstatesPremisesHalf Hours Author:Jonathan M. Goldstein
“When I look at my career, the bulk of it has been television, and I love working in television. But there's a speed at which you do it. You're doing seven to ten pages a day on a series, and it's hard to feel like you're doing the detail-oriented work that I like to do.” FeelsLooksHas BeensHardCareersTelevisionLike YouTenPagesSeriesSevenDetailsSpeed Author:Sarah Paulson
“For those of us at Marvel Television, it always begins with the story. It's all about the script. It's making sure it's there, on the page. So, we needed to go to a group of individuals who have not only created some of the most memorable animated characters, like Ben 10 and Generator Rex, but also had done two seasons of our very successful Marvel's Ultimate Spider-Man series, and that's the Man of Action guys. But, it wasn't just that.” MenTwoDoneCharacterStoriesActionGuyIndividualSuccessfulGroupsTelevisionHe ManNeededPagesUltimateSeasonsSeriesScriptsMemorableSpidersAnimatedSpider ManGeneratorMost Memorable Author:Jeph Loeb
“In my head, the 5 issues of A Spoon Too Short comprise one novel: a 100 page graphic novel sequel to Douglas' two Dirk books, taking some of the ideas he was working on before he died, and a whole bunch of new stuff from me and a little from Max Landis (who is the Executive Producer on the book as well as writing the forthcoming TV series).” WritingWellsLittlesTwoBookIdeasWholeStuffNovelIssuesTvsPagesDiedSeriesBunchProducersExecutivesToo ShortGraphicMaxSpoonsSequelsTv SeriesGraphic NovelsNew StuffForthcomingLandi Author:Arvind Ethan David
“As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.” IdeasUseWantedPagesSeriesDialoguePreparationVagueOutlinesVague Ideas Author:Jhonen Vasquez
“Were we, also, hiking along some cosmic journal page? Were the events about us all part of a message we could understand, if only we found the right perspective from which to read them? Somehow, with our long series of miracles, I thought so.” IfsLongFoundEventsPerspectiveMessagesPagesMiracleSeriesCosmicHikingJournal Author:Richard Bach
“but paper and ink have conjuring abilities of their own. arrangements of lines and shapes, of letters and words on a series of pages make a world we can dwell and travel in.” WorldLinesAbilityShapesPaperPagesLettersSeriesArrangementsInkConjuring Author:Lynda Barry