Yeah, writing advice and commentary are everywhere. Sometimes it’s valid. Sometimes it’s entertaining. And sometimes you get lucky and find both.
There’s this:
And this:
LB: Some Facebook Writing Finds
Month: April 2014
Nathan Bransford Wants to Answer All Your Writing Questions
…And you don’t even have to email and ask them. Mr. Bransford has done what all of us with writerly websites should be doing: He’s made a complete index of the info you can get from his terrific site, blog.nathanbransford.com.Here’s a sample of the index of goodies:
Before You Start
Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 4/24/14
Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are
by munchman
- Angela Robinson & Alex Kondracke (THE L WORD) are developing a too-be-named drama about “the Golden Age of Hollywood and the intersecting lives of Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich. (Which is sure to be a hit cuz let’s face it, it’s gonna emerge as lesbian porn, am I right?)
- David M. Stern (THE SIMPSONS) is developing WORMWOOD, an animated comic book adaptation, for IDW Entertainment. (After which it’ll promptly die cuz series that are developed independently of networks almost always do. Tough break for Ben Templesmith, the comic’s creator. Take it from the muncher, Ben: Not even partnering with George Lopez will help unless you’ve got a network on the hook first. Hmm, make that “especially when partnering with George Lopez. And I thought you comic book guyz were smarter than this.)
- Matt Lopez (RACE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN) has a new overall deal with Universal TV. (Cuz he’s the “go-to screenwriter for family fare,” and farmily fare is the new buzz genre de jour in the wonderful world of creatively bankrupt TV.)
Syndi Shumer: New Approaches in, um, PARENTHOOD
by Syndi Shumer
I’ve always been a sucker for a music montage, particularly when it settles in at the end of an episode, wrapping up the events of the hour like a sort of warm, cathartic blanket.
In the PARENTHOOD season finale, a cover of Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin” provided the soundtrack that took us to the end of season five, a season that has left many of the Braverman clan hanging on the precipice of change, and we, the viewers, cliff-hanging right alongside them.
Will there be a season six? The jury is still out, but I, for one, will be very disappointed if we don’t get a solid resolution to the limbo that we’ve been left in concerning the relationship between Joel and Julia…my favorite couple… the series’ former “rock” of a pair…
Mother of Mercy! Is This the End of Cable…At Last?
We’re gonna go out on a limb here and say: Yeah.
by Timothy Stenovec
Cable companies, you’ve been put on notice.
Cord cutting — ditching your steep monthly cable or satellite bill and instead watching video online — is on the rise, according to a new report from Experian Marketing Services.