Why All Artists/Creators/Writers/Etc. Should Learn How to Handle, um, Money

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Sara Schaefer is an Emmy winning comedy writer who’s about to break big with her own MTV series…but she’s broke. More than broke, she’s burdned with debt. How’d that happen to such a smart, talented Jewish girl?

This documentary is worth seeing not only because it’s entertaining (yeah, funny…really funny) but because it also teaches those of us who don’t have as many credit cards as Sara does what not to do when we, um, do. read article

munchman: Why We Write

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We – okay, make that I, your friendly neilghborhood munchman – write because it’s my way of righting all the injustices of the world. Me doing my bit for truth and freedom and justice. The same reason the U.S. fought WWII.

Delusions of glory? You betcha. I got ’em in spades. read article

Why We Totally Hate HBO’s GIRLS

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Click the pic & see what happens (it’s so incredible the way clicking just kinda takes you somewhere…)

Yes, it’s true, everybody here at TVWriter™ despises the series GIRLS. We think it’s puerile, stereotypical, and, as Gwen the Beautiful, totally sweet, calm, and secure wife of Our Feckless Leader, LB, puts it:

Nope, sorry, but I can’t watch another episode. The first two have already made me hate myself for being the parent of a 20-something daughter and at the same time totally mistrust her. Is that what television shows are supposed to do?

It’s with that mindset that we went crusing around FUNNY OR DIE.COM and found its GIRLS soulmate – ROBOTS. Many, many thanks, FODC, for making it possible for us to totally hate bots now too! read article

Why You Should Work From a Coffee Shop, Even When You Have an Office

…And the reason doesn’t seem to be so you can pick up wait persons…(But we hear that’s why munchman does it).

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by Wesley Verhoeve (Lifehacker.Com) read article

Peer Production: VOICEOVER

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It’s good. It’s sexy. It’s French.

(Of course, it depends on how you define sexy.) read article