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Peggy Bechko Gives Us Our Writerly Marching Orders

But she says it so nicely, with such…OMG!…class:

Three Helpful (I Hope) Writer’s Decrees Readers May Find Interesting – by Peggy Bechko (Peggy’s Blog)

Your Space, Research and Revision

There are a whole lot more than three of them, but well, I don’t have the time to go into all of them right now, or the space on my blog, or the typing finger (I just sliced it open while prepping food for Thanksgiving and the finger really  hurts when I hit a key). So, at great sacrifice I’m typing this up for your reading pleasure, edification, education, whatever you choose to consider it read article

Love Music? Love Writing? Billboard Mag Has Some Open Gigs

Sorry, but this info got delayed just a bit ‘cuz, you know, we had to get our resumes in.

From MediaBistro’s job listings: read article

SMASH Creator-Ex Showrunner Tells Us Why She Left

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again…and again and again. Television writing is not for the faint-hearted. But don’t take our word for it, read what the creator of NBC’s SMASH has to say:

Former ‘Smash’ Showrunner Reveals Why She Exited – by Philiana Ng

Smash creator Theresa Rebeck is shedding light on her exit from the NBC musical series. read article

A Whole Lot of the Universal Lot

TVWriter™’s longstanding friend, Angelo Bell, has been having some meetings lately and wants us all to know what they’re like:

  by Angelo

Monday I returned home after a visit to the NBC-Universal Lot. Building 1230 to be exact.

That makes 2 visits to the building in 4 months, to be really exact.  read article

3 Ways to Get Your Story Unstuck

Believe it or not, even LB, our boss, agrees with what follows, even if it is from Writers Digest:

 by Brian Klems (Writers Digest)

It will happen eventually—that moment when you realize you’re bogged down in the muck of your story. You don’t know where to go next or what the character should do. The seed of doubt sprouts then, unless you’re careful, will take root and bloom into full-on writer’s block. Here are suggestions on how to stop it—and make your story even stronger in the process.

1. Give your readers what they want, but not what they expect. read article