Female Filmmakers Make Strides In 2019, But Black Women Lag Behind — Black America Web

NEW YORK (AP) — Lulu Wang, Lorene Scafaria, Melina Matsoukas and Greta Gerwig led Hollywood to a record year for women in the director’s chair. In 2019, women directed more of the most popular movies than any year before. Women directed 12 of 2019’s top 100-grossing films in 2019, according to a study released Thursday […]… Continue reading Female Filmmakers Make Strides In 2019, But Black Women Lag Behind — Black America Web

10 Films in 2020 Helmed by Female Filmmakers — TheCollective

This could have been a year where the Academy Awards would have been at its most diverse. 2019 saw a huge boom of not just female filmmakers, but filmmakers who are women of color. Instead of diversity, we got business as usual. Mostly white, male directors and male-dominated films. Even within the Actress categories, most […]… Continue reading 10 Films in 2020 Helmed by Female Filmmakers — TheCollective

Guest Blog Post: Lynn Love’s Lessons in Novel Writing Rejection — Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

Originally posted on Word Shamble: Image: Pixabay Writing novels is a strange way to spend your life. You take months (in my case, years) working alone on a project then there comes a point – if you want your baby to develop, to grow and not remain swaddled to your over-protective breast forever – when… via… Continue reading Guest Blog Post: Lynn Love’s Lessons in Novel Writing Rejection — Happiness Between Tails by da-AL

True Magic In Writing! — A Teacher’s Reflections

Originally posted on charles french words reading and writing: (https://commons.wikimedia.org) There is magic in stories. Magic is the transmutation of objects or the manipulation of the world in ways that move outside the realm of science. Whether or not magic is real in the sense of the here and now world is not the point;… via… Continue reading True Magic In Writing! — A Teacher’s Reflections

Writing what you know? — Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo

We are always told that we should write what we know. To an extent, that is true, but those who are writing murder mysteries, for example, are hardly likely to start poisoning/bludgeoning/shooting their nearest and dearest in the name of research. As a reader, though, you want to feel as though the writer really understands […]… Continue reading Writing what you know? — Sue Vincent’s Daily Echo