Month: December 2020

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #125 “Understanding the Past”

Photo of Buffalo River by Kevin Peiper

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

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – 12/07/20

Thumbs Up, Everybody!

Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™, starting with a look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last 7 days. They are, in order:

How To Write The Perfect TV Series Review To Captivate Your Readers

‘The Following’ Season 4 was Cancelled by Fox Because the TV Series Became a Victim of Lazy Writing! read article

How Professional Screenwriters Outline

Old showbiz saying: “If you have the chance to post a video with distinguished and Oscar winning writers saying the same thing you always say, DO IT! So:

More Behind the Curtain

Cartoon: ‘Names for My Novel’

TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, once again demonstrates his uncanny knowledge of the writing mind.

See more of Grant Snider’s extraordinary perception of human creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE read article

Larry Brody: Mark Trail’s Long and Winding, um, Trail…

by Larry Brody

Have you read the Mark Trail comic strip lately? For that matter, have you ever read it? The strip began in 1946 and pretty much changed the same until earlier this century when some minor alterations were made.

But less than two months ago, in the second week of October, it went through a radical change from nature strip to, well, what some people might call – and in fact are calling – an “unnatural one.” read article