scriptwriting

YOU’VE HEARD IT BEFORE AND YOU’LL HEAR IT AGAIN

By Marilyn Armstrong on 10/16/2016 • ( 17 )

It all happened so fast. Stay in the car! No one was supposed to get hurt. He was turning his life around. He HAD turned his life around. Everybody loved him. S/he didn’t have an enemy in the world. He… Read More ›

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG WITH THAT?

By Marilyn Armstrong on 01/06/2015 • ( 31 )

When I lived in Israel, there was a story in the news about a family who sold their house and used the proceeds to buy lottery tickets. They figured they had to win. Win big. After which they would buy a new… Read More ›

The Guest Star Did It

By Marilyn Armstrong on 03/03/2013 • ( 8 )

I hate to sound like everyone else, but television is boring. Soporific put-me-to-sleep dull. There used to be a few shows each night we followed, but so many have been taken off the air or deteriorated to unwatchability there remain… Read More ›

Turning your life around

By Marilyn Armstrong on 02/02/2013 • ( 9 )

The purpose of a cliché is to make creative thought unnecessary. Television and Hollywood are cliché driven. How could scripts be cranked out without clichés? When I worked at Doubleday, we used to post (in those days, “posting” meant putting… Read More ›