you have to write in your own voice

Could u at least give me some direction i have wrote a little but i am 50 year old man disabled but i take care of my mom she is 80 years old and funny as hell buti am no writer need some directions

Ok not intrested i guess i will try some where else

Hay I have a good story I call it the last old man and it's a story about a small group of old people choosing live out there naturally life while every body else is now taking an anti aging pill I've got allot more but I think there is so much u can do with just that I don't want to ruin it with my ideas I don't really want anything for the idea and I am no brighter but would love to read the story or see it on tv

What if you did a video without the karaoke subtitles?

Sometimes, but not often and Never-Loud

Ok but you didnt address the selling part. Just having a good script doesn't mean it will sell.

Did the monthly webinars stop?

Really enjoying the stories Great work Michael!! Wrote you a message on Insta btw.

Very cool1 Congrats!

It's really awesome to see this happen. I watched your writers block forum and it was really helpful. Look at that. One more book purchased.

This Is Real Advice

Can't wait for these idiot authors to learn that training AI on their work isn't copyright infringement. No work was taken which is why they'll lose in court like the dumb artists did when they couldn't produce any work that was actually infringed upon as an example. Learning discreet techniques from authors and applying them to writing isn't theft. Saying it is islike saying that AI stole the D chord from you because you use a D chord in one of your songs that AI was trained on.

That was really good! Thank you Michael! ❤❤

Would love to hear more about this Michael! Great post!

Absolutely beautiful post, Michael. You rock 👊

Love the advice and info, hate the distracting subtitles

The Love Boat and Fantasy Island were excellent examples

Twilight Zone provided Source-Material for the majority of Feature Films for years-upon-years after… One of my favorites was the Episode with William DuVall and the early Episode with Burgess Meredith, the Banker who loved reading Books…

I wish it was that easy to brush it off when it's men harassing young women. There is a poet who now puts her dog in front of the camera instead of herself because those comments turned into a real world threats.

Ha! This is HILARIOUS

Is there a way you can put these videos out without the subtitles? They're really distracting.

I’m sorry if you mentioned this already but are you going to be apart of the King of the Hill revival?

Dude, I just started watching black mirror last night! 😮

That was brillant 🤣🤣🤣

Good info! My wife and I have been watching Room 104. I'll watch it with a different perspective now that I know how much more challenging they are to create!

SEGGS TOY!?

Ah Michael... let me preface first, that I spent 3000+ hours on building a startup that offers users tools for writing long form content leveraging LLMs... so I "come to this" biased already. But... I am, and will always be, PRO authors, creators, artists! And imagine, there was no convincing needed on your part, eventhough I am biased by default. And your "whole" video was built with solid arguments and delivery was on point... that is... right till the last one, when you kinda ruin it for me... so close, so close... The last argument (and delivery of it, ridiculing the viewers who side with computers) was off, in my opinion. And that is, because is not about computer rights vs human rights, AT ALL! It is about humans vs humans... or more precisely, authors vs people who want to use AI freely. So, from my perspective, I don't want MY RIGHTS to be infringed, that is, the rights to freely use AI, in its full capacity. I don't want some butt-hurt idiot sue openAI, anthropic, google and others, to limit the functionality of AI. Again, to be clear... that would be from my SELFISH perspective. And since I am human, and I care about fairness and absolutely understand the hard work and effort authors put into their craft I am all in favor in fair compensation... even not fair one (as in you guys being paid more that it would be fair). In the ideal world (which I absolutely think is possible, since these companies make enormous amounts of money - also spend a lot, but make much mroe) the authors would be paid very good, so they would be satisfied - the AI would work and deliver at full capacity, users would be happy... AND (this one is the most important - but really, really hard to do)... it would be obviously marked the AI work vs human ... I don't like counterfitting, nor the notion of it. Don't like to be deceived and would never want to deceive anyone. argument done.... but have some extra thoughts... you might continue reading if you done so far? :) it is related. So, yesterday I stunbled upon a tiktok about a girl looking for some inspirations and ideas to get a dragon tatoo. She was stating, that what she sees out there are either too cute ones... or too hard core... and there is not middle ground and she doesn't know what that would look like and was asking for some inspiration or ideas. Well, obviously there was influx of comments and naturally 2 camps formed... one was arguing to use AI for inspiration, the other to absolutely not (coz it is anti artists). I get it. Painters, photographers, song writers, music creators, writers, programmers, designers, etc... we are all soon be out of work... or at least waaaay less oportunities given, because AI is taking our place... I spent 30 years in learning programming, user experience, user interfaces, web development, architecture, data handling, and so much more... but all this knowledge and experience is soon going to be absolete... because nobody will hire me, because they can have all this, for much cheaper and faster with AI. And... tbh, is already happening, much faster than anticipating... Been of paying job since april, bills and dept piling up, moretgage payment missed, many bills missed and is taking huge toll on my mental health!!! but, I am still way more on the other camp's side - on the side of free use of AI. I want to be able to use AI that makes me 100x more productive... I don't want to spend a lot of money paying somebody to do design work for me, or programming work for me.... In my eyes... I now have the capability to do all these (with a tool like AI)... think AI democratizes knowledge and talents, and think this is to me waaay more exciting than being resentful towards it, because it is taking my job I spent 30+ years of sweat, and tears and countless sleepless nights on. Again - def. not saying authors are not entitled to defend their rights and am all for it! And I do wish they win and that a great way of compensation is agreed on... me, myself, I am paying at least $70/month for using AI... would love that at least 1/2 would go towards authors.

Spicy Michael is best Michael lol

Me thinks someone touched a nerve,,,,

make writing a priority, start young, and be willing to pay dues for years, otherwise -- pick another career and move on

you have to get in line and take your shot

You wrote on Wilfred too?! I have a new hero! 😊

Oh, hey… nevermind, I got a better deal… I picked-up a Spare Bowling Pin during the Strike… Trade you even-up…

If that’s an Original Hand-of-God on the shelf above your head, my offer’s 5 bucks, firm! Lmk

Your channel is full of such good real advice I love it! So quick and succinct- basically unheard of on here unfortunately. Clearly you’re used to making every word count.

I’m not in the business, but it’s so interesting hearing the realities of other industries. Thanks for being concise!

Fantastic insights that is a priceless gift to people coming up in the industry. Keep it up!

yrs ago one director said to Lawrence Oliver --- just be better!

Damn, it's bad enough breaking up through text, but now we're outsourcing it?

if you're working as a writer, be grateful

So, then your advice to me would be, ‘Change my Name to, Jack’?

"take the money sucka" words i always live by

Your breath is God-awful and you should do something about your toenails… they’re almost as long as your nose-hairs! … oh, and-uh, … hey, … How much for the Parking-Meter?

don't descend to their level

I s*itposted on one of your recent vids and I thought I was being genuinely funny (and hoped what I wrote might give you a chuckle). I'm glad to have this opportunity to say that me thinking I'm hilarious aside, I appreciate you and your videos. Thanks for sharing your experience with us!

So when is the first season of Stinking Fart Boys on tv? Sounds like a funny show.

Probably the closest that you could legitimately come to the original problematic example (“Be funnier.”) is the basic note that says you intend for the line to be played humorously rather than seriously… which might not always be evident from the immediately adjacent context.

Fantastic advice!! I’m a director and I always try to give direction with “as if” to start the conversation:)

A while back, I wanted to create a “crowdsourced production company.” I found the market really wasn’t ready for the specific way I wanted to do it, but I also found interest wasn’t as strong as I expected. This video summed up viewer wants so well.