Unscripted: Researching Your Scripts
QUESTION of the day: What’s the most fun experience you’ve had doing research for a script? Do you dread researching or do you love it? Share your tips and fun…
QUESTION of the day: What's the most fun experience you've had doing research for a script? Do you dread researching or do you love it?
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Here's a tip for those researching crime -- if you're in L.A., Oct 6th and 7th is The Homicide School for Writers. The 2-day event is from 9am to 3pm with a Homicide detective veteran of 22 years supplying information on investigating, crime scenes, autopsies, uncovering clues on the victim's body, the life of a detective, even how best for your fictional killer to get away with a crime...etc.
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Jeanne Veillette Bowerman is a Senior Executive at Pipeline Media Group and Book Pipeline, Editor-in-Chief of Pipeline Artists, Director of Symposium—a year-round conference in the arts, co-host "Reckless Creatives" podcast, partner at Fringe Press, former Editor-in-Chief of Script magazine and a former Senior Editor at Writer's Digest. Recognized as one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Screenwriting Bloggers," her "Balls of Steel" column was selected as recommended reading by Universal Writers Program. A compilation of her articles is now available at The Writers Store—Balls of Steel: The Screenwriter's Mindset. She is also Co-Founder and moderator of X's weekly screenwriters’ chat, #Scriptchat, and wrote the narrative adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name, with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, former senior national correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. More information can be found on her website. X: @jeannevb | IG/Threads: @jeannevb_ | BlueSky: @jeannevb.bsky.social
