Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #44 – “Hazardous Material”

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. read article

Writers Guild – Talent Agents Troops Dig In

by Larry Brody

The latest developments in Hollywood’s latest War Between Those Who Should Be Brothers & Sisters:

Why Did Writers Have To Fire Their Agents, What Is WGA’s Endgame & Other Burning Questions Addressed By Guild Chief David Goodman read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – May 06, 2019

Happy Monday everybody!

Hope you’ve had a great weekend. Time now for TVWriter™’s latest look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the week ending yesterday. They are, in order: read article

Wondering What Your Resume Reel Should Look Like?

We here at TVWriter™ get a lot of “What does my sample/resume/teaser/etc. reel need to say and show about me inquiries, and after a hell of a lot of searching, we’ve finally found an easy-to-understand answer.

It should look like this one, from one of our favorite indie film and we series writer-producer-actress-directors, Ms. Bri Castellini. Take it away, Bri! read article

The Trouble with MacGuffins

The real title of this post probably should be, “Not everybody can do what Hitchcock Did,” or maybe, “Attention, Hitchcock Haters!” or maybe “How MacGuffins Can Ruin Movies,” which is, in fact, what this instructive video is called:

Found on the Just Write YouTube channel