Month: July 2017

Cartoon: ‘Method Writer’

Found on Ballard Street:

This Year’s Emmy Writing Nominees

We would brag about having some good friends of TVWriter™  in this list, but the truth is that these fine writers have been good friends to everybody, just for giving us their wonderful work:

Best Writing for a Comedy Series read article

Larry Brody’s Poetry: ‘My Emptiness States Its Purpose’

It’s 3 a.m. Do you know where your mind is wandering?

 by Larry Brody

NOTE FROM LB

From time to time – well, okay, constantly – I engage in what I believe is a kind of self-analysis common to writers. In my case, it invariably goes like this:

My Emptiness States Its Purpose

So what’s this search all about? read article

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – July 17, 2017

Time for TVWriter™’s  Monday look at our 5 most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:

TV WRITING: Your First Years In The Writers Room read article

Bri Castellini: ‘The Bechdel Test is The WORST’ – @BrisOwnWorld

Bri Castellini, TVWriter™’s favorite starving young indie filmmaker, has a few very choice words to say about the biggest cop-out “test” in showbiz. This is something we all need to know:

As a female TVWriter™ minion who regards this post as a kind of conversation between Bri, myself, and all of you who are reading and watching this, I have a question:

Does this, our current convo, pass the Bechdel Test? read article