Category: Project Publish
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What is Project Publish?
Think Dancing with the Stars…with no dancing (and better writing and acting) In Spring of 2013, I participated as a Writer Contestant in Project Publish – the first (and, so far, the only) season of a reality show for writers and actors produced by Kimberly Kozar Lescelius on BATV – the public access station of Batavia,…
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Project Publish – Episode 1
Meet the Contestants There was no competition or elimination on Week 1 – just all of us TV newbies getting the hang of everything and being introduced to the audience.
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Project Publish – Episode 2
Let the Games Begin! Episode 2 brought the first challenge. We writers were to write a scene with 2 or 3 characters that was completely dialogue-driven. This was quite a baptism by fire for the actors, having to play at least two different characters right off the bat!
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Project Publish – Episode 3
Poetry Week This week was scary for me, as Poetry was something new to me. But that made me do research and really work hard – and with great results.
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Project Publish – Episode 4
Just Add 249 Pages, Give or Take Our Week 4 Challenge was to write the opening scene in a thriller novel, which the actor could perform in three minutes. It’s a great start – now I just have to tack the rest of the book on the end of it and I’ll be all set!…
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Project Publish – Episode 5
The Dreaded SciFi Challenge If you go back and watch the end of Episode 4, you’ll see — among everybody else jumping for joy — one person cringing noticeably when the Science Fiction topic is announced. That would be yours truly. Prior to this assignment I’d never written, or even read, for that matter, any Science…
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Project Publish – Episode 6
“Laurie, Your Story Ends Here” Other than Project Publish, the only reality show my husband I have ever watched is Dancing with the Stars. Invariably, in the last few weeks of competition, one of us states the obvious… at this point in the competition, everyone is so evenly matched that anybody could win, and anybody…
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Project Publish – Episode 7
The Big Finish Up until now, all episodes of Project Publish were broadcast live with just the cast and crew present in the studio, and the fate of the contestants was solely in the hands of the writing and acting judges. But today was different! For our big finale, all contestants from the season were…