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One way to confirm that cyberspace is the great equalizer is to observe the quality of editing that exists ...I am truly amazed at the mangling endured by the English language on a significant number of sites.

Setting goals is the first step in achieving success. The goals themselves are useless if we don't achieve them and sadly the majority of goals and resolutions created fail to materialize.

I’m currently directing an independent feature called Captain Felder’s Cannon. During preproduction, one of the writers asked me whether I wanted all the setups numbered.

The best way to cheapen anything is to overuse it ...I recall a sports clip from many years ago, where a veteran basketball player near the end of his career was reminiscing about his prime and comparing it to the supporting-cast status he was about...

A battle is won when a leader is successful. We can find a large number of examples in World history. Today we can also see that the statement is quite true.

As the craft of writing has evolved, it has naturally formed the plot structure most pleasant to the human mind. This is the Three Act Structure, and it applies to short stories, novels and screenplays alike.

The legendary George Carlin made a career out of calling attention to the difference between how words and phrases are perceived as opposed to what they're 'actually' saying ...He would ask wonderfully rhetorical questions, my...

I don't believe in writer’s block. (I can hear the gasps of disbelief already.) Listen: If you hire a plumber to come to your house and fix a problem, do you expect him to say, "Sorry, I can't figure out what your problem is.

There are a lot of things nowadays that we don’t really want to talk about. These are everyday things that we do and don’t even think about what we are doing exactly.

So what is this "blog factor"? Well, what a few thought was a novel idea some years ago has now morphed into something no one expected. There are currently nine million blogs out there with 40,000 new ones being added everyday.