From Yahoo! News: The legendary Blair Witch Project owed much of its success to a canny internet marketing campaign. For his latest project, co-creator Daniel Myrick goes the next step: The Strand will be presented only on the web.

 

From The Courier-Journal (Louisville): The war in Iraq served to radicalize much of Britain's playwriting community (or re-radicalize it, in the case of writers like David Hare). But American playwrights have been oddly muted -- one might even say timid -- in their reaction. The premiere of Kia Corthron's Moot the Messenger at the Actors Theatre of Louisville is a hopeful sign that things might finally be changing.

 

From Salon: Ex-screenwriter Lisa Lutz feels pretty hard-done-by as a result of her experiences working on a movie that ended up going straight to video. But, hey, if she wants to find out how bad things can really get, she should read the February 16th article below. (Note to faithful readers: we promise to start posting encouraging stories about screenwriting just as soon as we, er, find some.)