Read a Good Book Lately?

It's sounds boring, but no joke. It's amazingly coherent and well composed.

I am halfway through RB's book on crowdsourcing and while a great deal of it feels like good old fashioned common sense, etiquette, and a good guide on how not to be a selfish a-hole, there is a great deal of information I wish I had known before taking on my first pitch. I've got a great story and pretty decent pitch but I've come to understand that I haven't been putting in work that is most certainly necessary if you are going to be pitching your script.

If you haven't read/listened to it, I highly recommend it. If you have read/listened to it, what are some of the most prolific pieces of advice that you took away from it?

What an unbelievable book!!

On of my favorite book is On The Track (A Guide to Comtoporary Scoring), written by Fred Karlin and Rayburn Wright (foreword by John Williams) is an absolutely amazing book about scoring movies. both by the richness of its content, and by its very pragmatic approach. This book deals with all the topics that concern scoring movies, ranging from spotting the scenes to how determine budgets to pay musicians, rent the studio, etc. A definitively must have for any composer!

By Joseph Conrad. Very deep. Written like Moby Dick.

Creativity Inc is a great book from the founder of Pixar. He discusses the history of Pixar from Lucas Film days, how Steve Jobs got involved and what has made it the premier animation house and storytelling powerhouse that it has become. Fascinating read on what it took for them to build the company.. It wasn't easy for them either.. so it made me feel better!

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I'm looking to see if anyone else has read this title. I really enjoyed it, and I think that it was a great analysis of the practices in the film industry. It comes from the perspective of someone who has worked in film. She compares the older Hollywood practices with our more recent tendencies. I was very excited to read it, and it did not disappoint.

Currently reading "Turning Pro" by Steven Pressfield - the follow up to his highly successful "The War of Art". I like how the chapters/sections are a page or less, allowing me to dip and out when I need to :)

Undertow is a series by Michael Buckley. I read the Undertow series a couple of summers ago and it absolutely changed my perspective about the way I read things. And it also inspired me to be more confident in my writing. The way I wrote. What I wrote about. Why I wrote it. I love the Science Fiction Genre, but I am also very critical of it if it is not done well. Any Science Fiction book I read helps me and inspires me to continue writing my own Science Fiction Series when I have writer's block like I do this week. So, I decided to come back to it again this summer and re-read the series. It is an amazing YA Science Fiction Series that everyone should read at least once. Of course, it is not perfect. No book is. But I truly believe it is a story everyone can relate to in one way or another.