January 2012 - Mark Kaplowitz

26 January 2012

Remember When Genre Was Genre: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference 2012 (Part 2)

All of the speakers at the Writer’s Digest Conference that I attended last weekend were excellent. One of them who stands out in my mind is Donald Maass, who spoke about writing for the 21st Century. I thought he was going to tell us to write about robots or the aging baby-boomers. But he was talking more about the way...

Blogging and Writing Comments: 7

23 January 2012

Remember Life Before Memory Sticks: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference (Part 1)

This past weekend I attended the Writer’s Digest Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. It just so happened that there was another Sheraton Hotel directly across the street. Two Sheraton Hotels facing each other [caution: double spoiler alert], like the identical twin white mega churches at the end of Wayne’s World 2, during its parody of the end of The Graduate....

Blogging and Writing Comments: 6

20 January 2012

Remember When Television Screens Weren’t Measured in Acres?

This weekend I am attending the Writer’s Digest Conference in New York. It is my first conference, so I’m a little nervous about what to do and whether I’ll like the lunch that the conference agenda has promised me. Is it okay to take notes at a writers conference? At most times it is considered weird to take notes around...

Television and Movies Comments: 9

Monthly Archive: January, 2012

Remember When Genre Was Genre: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference 2012 (Part 2)

Remember Life Before Memory Sticks: Digesting the Writer’s Digest Conference (Part 1)

Remember When Television Screens Weren’t Measured in Acres?