The Ultimate Guide to Writing Stage Directions for the Screen

We admit it. We first discovered this extremely well done article via TVWriter™’s Writing & Showbiz Tips from Around the InterWebs page. Immediately, we realized it was just the sort of thing we should have commissions and published ourselves.

In other words, Industrial Scripts.Com has done the TV & film writing worlds a true “mitzvah” with this, and we hope that if you missed it last week you’ll start reading right here and click on to continue to the end.

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Larry Brody’s TV Writing Tips & Tricks #9

Raising the Tension!
by Larry Brody

A story can’t maintain reader or viewer interest if it doesn’t build. In other words, to stay interesting it has to become MORE interesting.

Upward and onward should be your catch phrase, in the sense that the tension has to increase as you race to your climax. (No double entendre intended.) read article

Last Week’s Most Important Cord Cutting Developments – 1/26/21

Cord Cutters News gives us the latest on the cord cutting front. Netflix’s 200 Million Users, Paramount+ Launch, Pluto TV Additions, and More!

Cord Cutters Video Channel: https://twitter.com/CordCuttersNews read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #132 “A Storyteller in Love”

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. read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – 1/25/21

Thumbs Up Y’all

Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™.  As usual, our day is beginning with a look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last 7 days.

They are, in order:

Corporal Punishment and Primetime TV read article