Crossroads Writers

05/18/2023

And here it is! We're proud to present Terminator: Bad Judgment Day, our award-winning short film that has been accepted into 17 film festivals across the country! Produced by Jump Rock Pictures and Christian Olteanu, written by Phillip Ramati, with production design by Kellie Penna, Terminator has been honored with Best Comedy, Best Texas Film, Best Director (Lisa Belcher), Best Actor (Avery Merrifield) and Best Supporting Actor (Marc Pouhé). The film was shot in October 2020, during the height of COVID.
Terminator is 6 minutes and contains strong language. If you enjoy, please do like it on YouTube and consider sharing it.
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXGFfvnYV1o

11/14/2018

On fantasy and sci-fi...

11/07/2018

You mean my mom doesn't know everything!?

You've probably read those acknowledgements at the back of a book: "Special thanks to Nobel Prize winner Niels Ryberg Finsen for the many hours of medical

10/31/2018

Can we call it screechwriting if it's a horror script?

During a recent Write Your Screenplay podcast episode, Jacob Krueger sat down with screenwriter Doug Jung (Star Trek Beyond, Big Love) and writer/director Emily Dell (B-Girl, Helen) to talk about...

10/24/2018

Me? Stuck?

Being stuck is not a permanent situation. There are a number of techniques for propelling yourself out of that plot sinkhole. Here are 12 of them.

10/17/2018

Raise your hand if you own a manual typewriter.

A couple weeks ago, I bought three typewriters: They were all used by the same woman who had passed away 20 years ago. I answered an ad for them on Craiglist and went to the home of her son to pick…

10/10/2018

Do you write for the children's market?

Bronwen Fleetwood starts off her new column with a look at the added responsibility of kidlit writers and how to navigate it the right way.

10/03/2018

Ah, process!

A brief tour of the scribe Hall of Fame -- what better way to procrastinate than to live vicariously through the habits of renowned writers of yore.

09/26/2018

Thinking about tackling true crime?

The highly popular publishing genre, True Crime, brings to mind a slew of great books like Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Vincent Bugliosi’s Helter Skelter, Cathy Scott’s The Killing of Tupac Shakur, or Ann Rule’s The Stranger Beside Me. True Crime books are nonfiction but written like a nov...

09/19/2018

Good post on self-publishing .

A Q&A on children's self-publishing with authors Zetta Elliott, Brent Hartinger, Cheryl Klein, and Stephen Mooser.

09/12/2018

Rough draft, anyone?

Learn how to write a rough draft faster using established writing techniques. Draft your novel quickly so you can begin revising your story.

09/05/2018

Specifics: for authors.

Instagram is a fast-growing social media platform, but as authors who focus on words rather than pictures, we might not know how to make it work for us. In Part 1, Monica Corwin shares how to make it work for us as an author.