From Latino Review: Has anybody done a better job of constantly reinventing himself than Steve Martin? Here, he talks about adapting his own novella, Shopgirl, to the screen -- and how comics go about getting praised for their dramatic acting. (Hint: It has something to do with dinner.)

 

From KRON4 (San Francisco): He's back. Former Czech president plans to write new play.

 

From CBS.com: We know why some writers have the time to blog: it's how they avoid real writing. (We excuse ourselves. This isn't a blog, see, it's a gofer. Yeah, that's it.) But how the heck does Cory Miller, Executive Story Editor of "CSI: Miami", find the time to do it? They must make him. In which case, we're glad they do, because his weekly posts are adding up into the most insightful look at the writing of a top TV show we've yet come across.

 

From Script Magazine: As a writer (that is why you're here, isn't it?), you might pick up some useful tips from this essay on how some movies make evil characters likeable. And if you are an evil character, it just might make you feel a whole lot better about yourself.

 

From Stuff (New Zealand): At 71, playwright Alan (The History Boys) Bennett explains why he continues: he's not sure he's any good. Insecurity, he muses, might be "a subconscious strategy you have for making yourself go on. If ever one felt totally accepted and that you had totally hit the mark in your writing, you might not do anything more."