Stephanie Bourbon on Setting Realistic Writing Goals for 2021

LB’S NOTE: Stephanie Bourbon’s helpful column, originally scheduled for last week but bumped because of the shocking events on Capital Hill, presents us with much-needed  advice about a part of our lives we can, in fact, control..

by Stephanie Bourbon

Hello Dear Writers! read article

Bri Castellini on Networking – @brisownworld

Our Big Boss Man, LB, is incommunicado today (we think he’s having a bit of trouble recovering from having to come back to –shudder – work), so we don’t have all the deets on how this infogram from TVWriter™ fave indie writer-producer Bri Castellini came to be, but we can tell you this much:

It’s a good one. Stop, look, and learn!

God is a Gamer – A New Year’s Treat from Kate Hackett

Ya gotta love this one! (In other words, we do, because our Beloved Leader, LB, is still laughing. And he watched it last week.

More from and about Kate Hackett: read article

Video game addiction: China imposes gaming curfew for minors

God may be a gamer (see the post above), but that doesn’t exactly make online gaming popular in a little country called…um…The People’s Republic of China.

In other words, “Oy!”

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Herbie J Pilato Reflects on Dawn “Mary Ann” Wells

Forever Mary Ann
by Herbie J Pilato

“By the dawn’s early light…”

How fitting that such a musical patriotic pledge of allegiance would include even the slightest reference to the first name of an actress who for decades represented the All-American dream girl.

Dawn Wells, who died at 82 from complications of Covid-19 on December 30, 2020, was from day one as American as apple pie, or more specifically, of the Coconut Cream of the crop selection. That was her dessert of choice when playing the beloved castaway Mary Ann Summers on the TV classic Gilligan’s Island, which originally ran on CBS from 1964 to 1967. read article