About 10 weeks ago, TVWriter™ ran a piece we called “What Buyer & Agent Types Don’t Want from Writers. Today we’re going to take the positive approach because what good or “don’ts” if you don’t have some “dos.” So without further ado (or even adah):
What we all want is a ‘good story, well told’. That’s a given. But what does this really mean? In part 2 of my expert panel this week, I asked the industry pros a second question …
One of our favorite fan blogs, Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery, comes through with a review of a series most of us here at TVWriter™ would have to admit that we not only haven’t seen, we also haven’t heard of.
The series is on Netflix, a place that fascinates us because not only does it do what, you know, we all expect a streaming media site to do, it also write the best series loglines on the interwebs. You know, like this:
Twenty years after graduation, a tight-knit group of college friends reconnects and discovers that love hasn’t gotten easier with age.
THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.
In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.
Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B.
With this one simply named comic strip, Grant Snider, our all-time fave poet/philosopher/cartoonist/orthodontist, proves himself to be the very opposite of Camus’ Sisyphus as he goes all-out and gives us not merely a metaphor for the act of, say, writing, but a wonderful lesson in living the most enjoyable of lives:
The Shape of Ideas Sketchbook by Grant Snider features new illustrations, comics on drawing and creativity, and many blank pages for your own ideas, doodles, and observations. Order it from Abrams or wherever you get your books.
Happy Monday everybody!
Hope you’ve had a great weekend. It’s time now for TVWriter™’s latest look at our most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are: