Welcome back, I hope you had a great week!Quick business update:It sounds like my feature pitch a couple of weeks ago was well received and I’m (hopefully) advancing to the next level at the studio. My current mantra is, “Make one champion at a time.”I had a blast at Comic-Con and I want to pass on a story I told at the panel. In 2012, the year before I sold EXTANT, I went to Wonder Con in Anaheim and caught a panel about writing for television. One of the panelists was a writer named Keto Shimizu, and I remember being particularly inspired by her. I followed her work through the years, always cheering inside when her name popped up in the credits. Cut to this past Friday and I was on a panel WITH Keto, sitting right next to her. Like I told the room, “It can happen and it does happen. Any one of you could be sitting up here in a few years.”One last thing before I get to the heart of the matter...The R&D Report has been free since the beginning and it will continue to be free. I don't have any plans to make it a paid subscription at any point.Part of that is the consistency, or lack thereof. I publish these issues when I feel like I have something worth sending to your inbox. It's a pretty organic process. I don't want to fake it or force it. Also, I discover these things while in pursuit of my day job. That takes time.But as someone who will regularly find himself between jobs (shows get canceled, development takes forever, and/or falls apart), it would be cool if this could eventually supplement my income, even in a small way. As long as it doesn't throw up any barriers to entry. Enter the Ko-Fi button.This is a totally voluntary, no pressure, no obligations kind of way to give people the opportunity to support this newsletter. I'm going to put the button at the bottom of each issue, starting today. If there are other ways of supporting that come up I'll add them down there along the way. You don't have to do it, you don't even have to look at it if you don't want to. It will just be sitting down there, quietly, for anyone who feels moved by the spirit to "buy me a coffee" for the purpose of picking my brain. We will never speak of this again.
Making Your Masterpiece
Making Your Masterpiece
Making Your Masterpiece
Welcome back, I hope you had a great week!Quick business update:It sounds like my feature pitch a couple of weeks ago was well received and I’m (hopefully) advancing to the next level at the studio. My current mantra is, “Make one champion at a time.”I had a blast at Comic-Con and I want to pass on a story I told at the panel. In 2012, the year before I sold EXTANT, I went to Wonder Con in Anaheim and caught a panel about writing for television. One of the panelists was a writer named Keto Shimizu, and I remember being particularly inspired by her. I followed her work through the years, always cheering inside when her name popped up in the credits. Cut to this past Friday and I was on a panel WITH Keto, sitting right next to her. Like I told the room, “It can happen and it does happen. Any one of you could be sitting up here in a few years.”One last thing before I get to the heart of the matter...The R&D Report has been free since the beginning and it will continue to be free. I don't have any plans to make it a paid subscription at any point.Part of that is the consistency, or lack thereof. I publish these issues when I feel like I have something worth sending to your inbox. It's a pretty organic process. I don't want to fake it or force it. Also, I discover these things while in pursuit of my day job. That takes time.But as someone who will regularly find himself between jobs (shows get canceled, development takes forever, and/or falls apart), it would be cool if this could eventually supplement my income, even in a small way. As long as it doesn't throw up any barriers to entry. Enter the Ko-Fi button.This is a totally voluntary, no pressure, no obligations kind of way to give people the opportunity to support this newsletter. I'm going to put the button at the bottom of each issue, starting today. If there are other ways of supporting that come up I'll add them down there along the way. You don't have to do it, you don't even have to look at it if you don't want to. It will just be sitting down there, quietly, for anyone who feels moved by the spirit to "buy me a coffee" for the purpose of picking my brain. We will never speak of this again.