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Well like it or not, the holiday party season is nearly upon us and you need to be ready for it. These parties are a great opportunity to hone a vital piece of the puzzle you need to get your

In the previous blog, Give Me Control!, I wrote, “remember to make your show as thorough as possible, not leaving anything to the imagination”. I’ve spoken about this before, but it was in the last 2 months that I realized even

We all want to keep creative control when we sell our shows. And chances are we’re not going to get to. Not yet. If you’re in a position where you’ve sold or given away creative control of your show because

You’ve probably dreamt about it when you should be sleeping. Daydreamed about it when you should be working. So what happens when a production company calls to say they want to shoot some footage for your show? First, if you

If you’ve been following along with the blogs you’ll have noticed there has been a gap in new material being put out since about July. There are a lot of reasons for that. The last blog entry I wrote talked

So you’ve set your goals and you’re working diligently towards achieving them. You’ve set a schedule and you’re sticking to it. You have short term goals and long term goals and you’re going slow and steady and ticking things off

I think we’ve all seen the cop shows where the perp buckles in the interrogation room and says, “I think I’d like to see my lawyer now.” And he knows he needs them, because he knows he’s caught. But when

Remember the good ol’ days of writing? When you would type and type and type on your trusty typewriter only to realize that what you were writing was complete and utter crap? You would rip the page from the typewriter,

I was at a festival last year and we stopped for a lunch break. Lunch was provided so we all went to the lunchroom, helped ourselves to a decent meal, and everyone (I hope it wasn’t just me) tried to

“That jerk just used half my pitch time!!” If you’ve been through the pitching cycle at festivals you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. If you haven’t yet, this is bound to happen to you. And if you’re not ready

It’s a question many of us heard as kids on the playground. The school bully wanted to make us feel small so he (or she) belittled us by challenging us to tell them, and everyone, why we were special. I