Peggy Bechko’s Ideal Writing Space

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All together now: “Awwww….”

 by Peggy Bechko

It’s near the holidays – I’m tired – kinda need a writing break so I decided I’ll talk a bit about my writing space. If you had the opportunity to visit my blog a couple of weeks back, you’d have taken my office tour http://bit.ly/1M2VdSO and seen where I hunker down to create novels, scripts, and now comics.

It’s comfortable and a great space, ever evolving. So let me tell you a little more about it. I’m fortunate in that my office is fairly large. Around 11 X 18 feet. About the time we built this house (may I add we did a lot of the work ourselves) I was ready for a real office and not a corner somewhere.

Amusingly our builder didn’t really need blueprints except for the necessary permits so he said, hey, if you let me expand the dimensions it won’t cost anything extra because you’ll save a lot in labor as we won’t have to cut every piece of wood to size. It was a bit more detailed than that, but that’s the gist. So it ended up being a bit bigger than I’d first planned which was just fine with me. read article

The Week on TVWriter™ Dec. 21 – Dec. 27

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In case you’ve missed what’s been happening here on TVWriter™, the most clicked-on blog posts by TVWriter™ visitors last week, (yeah, Christmas, it’s okay, we know) were:

Kelly Jo Brick: The Write Path With LaToya Morgan, Part 2 read article

MERRY CHRISTMAS from TVWriter™!!!

Merry Christmas from TVWriter™ Central

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Merry Christmas from Larry Brody & Team TVWriter™ 

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And from munchman too

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John Ostrander Ponders “Christmas Anti-Heroes

Anti-hero? Or out and out villain? Hiya,k Grinchy!
Anti-hero? Or out and out villain? Hiya,k Grinchy!

by John Ostrander

T’is the season for Christmas related columns, fa-la-la-la-etc. I could write about Star Wars: The Force Awakens but that came out Friday so now it’s old hat and, besides, I haven’t seen it yet and, given the crowds, may not be able to see it until after the first of the year so let’s talk about something else, shaaaaall we?

Christmas is a time of peace, love, and goodwill to all unless you’re doing last minute shopping, running from store to store, and in a life and death struggle with some other harried shopper for the last iteration of a particular item that you both must have. So why is it that, aside from Baby Jesus of course, the most identifiable characters connected with the day are anti-heroes – the Grinch, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Mr. Potter (from It’s a Wonderful Life)?

Anti-heroes are what we used to call outright villains until it was found that we may identify with them more than perhaps we should. They’re bad guys who have a hint of good guy in them and these days we may sympathize with them more than the erstwhile heroes of the stories that they are in. They’re usually the most interesting and usually have the best lines. read article

What It takes to Make a Hit TV Show

Believe it or not, CBS News is bringing us this article on what’s hot and what’s not on television today. We find it interesting and hope you will too, because even though CBS is generally clueless about things like this the writer seems to have the right stuff:

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by Lauren Moraski

From “Better Call Saul” and “Orange Is the New Black” to the newly released “Master of None” on Netflix, there’s no shortage of critically-acclaimed hit shows. read article