National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.
Writers should know that ideas can’t be copyrighted, only the tangible expression of those ideas. The words of a story. The notes of a song. The lines of a drawing. If those are substantially similar in the eyes… Read More
Write What You Don’t Know
“Write what you know” is trite advice. It’s a good example of my Tools, Not Rules philosophy: it’s useful to draw from what you know to inspire your writing (indeed, I think it’s unavoidable); but you shouldn’t limit… Read More
Power Up Your Writing!
by Grand Rapids Region Writers Group (GRRWG) Join us as multi-published authors Alex Kourvo and Lara Zielin show us how to Power Up Your Writing! Sign up at eventbrite! About this event Ticket price ($40 for GRRWG members,… Read More
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
(With acknowledgments to J.R.R. Tolkien and Alistair Cockburn) This is not an original idea with me. It was inspired by Alistair Cockburn’s “Three Levels of Listening” (Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game), which introduced the idea in the… Read More
Nobody Knows Anything
Nobody knows anything… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one. William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen… Read More
