…And all I can say is that if I’d had any realistic hope of finding some new shows to watch regularly, it would’ve been dashed.
Yes, it’s true. My lowest expectations proved to be too high. Cases in point:
BATTLE CREEK:
Month: March 2015
Peggy Bechko: Writers Beware – Scams Abound
by Peggy Bechko
Hey writers, have you ever played whack-a-mole?
Well, that’s a little sample of what the writing life can be like when dealing with scammers, con artists and all sorts of other low-life characters who have no respect for your abilities or dreams and only want to turn that to their own monetary benefit.
If you aren’t very careful you can spend thousands of dollars being lured on by empty promises, false representations and their fabulous expert (I use the term sarcastically) recommendations for which they in fact have no expertise at all.
Most-Have Skills for Starting a Writing Career
What? Oh noooo! Being talented isn’t enough? We need to have a whole nuther set of skills? What? More than one whole nuther set? OMG! OMG!
Well, we have to face the truth sometime, so:
by Kristin Wong
So you want to get paid for your writing, but you’ve never been published. You have no formal experience, and no one’s ever hired you for a writing-related job. The professional legwork that comes with getting paid to write can be intimidating. Honing a few important skills can help you get started.
munchman: Back in the Saddle Again…Sorta
by munchman
Yer ever-lovin’ not-so-blue-eyed munchero here after a bit of an absence cuz our Beloved Leader LB cancelled the “Love & Money Dept,” my beloved series of posts about TV pilot writing deals.
Well, beloved by me anyway, even though it was, for reasons I just can’t wrap my ambidextrous tongue around, the least-read feature of TVWriter™ for the last 2 1/2 years.
But now I’m hoping for a comeback, this time as TVWriter™’s Weekend Editor. In case you’ve been wondering about the tone of yesterday’s posts here, this weekend is my try-out, so keep clicking, peeps. Build up those views. Get your friends to click too, so I can get me a mess o’Unique Visitors and show Larry B that I may not have anything to say nor be very good at not saying it, but the interwebs lurve, lurve, lurve me nevertheless–
WGAW March 2015 Calendar of Events
MUNCHMAN’S NOTE: Here ya go, WGAers, all the ways the Writers Guild of America, West can come up with to keep you happy, healthy, and wise this month.
Whoa, munchikins almost wrote “…this mouth” instead of “month” above. What can that mean?
Anyway: