nihilistic intentions

my new blog l o l i swear its good, quality

i know ive forsaken you,

& this is crazy,

but here’s my lit. blog,

follow me maybe

5th Dec 2011 | 4 notes

GPOY: Haven’t-Used-Tumblr-in-So-Long-but-it’s-Finals-so-I-Need-to-Procrastinate Edition.

In Which Sarah Manguso Interviews Lydia Davis

(via suitablesubstituteforwit)

Well I run the writers room, which I liken to being on a sequestered jury that never ends, because what it entails is a bunch of people sitting around and arguing constantly. We basically sit around this table and ask our selves the same few questions day in and day out. Where is Walt’s head at? What is he afraid of right now? What does Jesse want? In finding the answers to these questions we create the plots for each episode, and I’m always there in the room. Only at the point when each individual episode is completely figured out does an individual writer go off and write it into script format. Primarily they’re creating the dialogue that you hear. Once they have created a finished script, they give it to me and I read it and I give them notes.

I have very good writers who are very adept at finding the voices of characters, and with every season that we shoot I typically have fewer and fewer notes for each individual writer. Anyone who is a showrunner on a TV show is a control freak to a certain extent, but the truth is you have to allow other people into your creative process, you’d be a fool not to. One big thing that needs to feel continuous from episode to episode are the voices of the characters. Saul has to sound like Saul, Skyler has to sound like Skyler. And that’s the big thing on my part, giving some guidance to the writers to make sure our characters sound like our characters.

—Vince Gilligan, showrunner of Breaking Bad. This is why I want to be a television screenwriter.

8th Oct 2011 | 4 notes

‎Radio Announcer: Could one say that a book is nothing more than a painting of words which are the notes on a tapestry of the greatest film ever sculpted?
Leslie Knope: One could say that...but should one?

Occupied Wall Street Journal

I pledged, will you? 2 more days to fund this project that’s keeping many informed. You can give anything, even a dollar. PDFs of these documents are also available now.

http://ubiquitousmag.tumblr.com/

As some of you may already know, I’m the Editor-in-Chief of my college’s literary and arts magazine, Ubiquitous. This year my goal, in collaboration with the designer and my friend Chris (check out his Tumblr here) is to modernize and simplify. As part of that goal, I decided to ditch our long-standing Blogspot account (because who really uses Blogspot anymore?) and adopt a Tumblr instead. So follow if you’d like! You can see what kind of art and writing is happening at Pratt.