TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – August 22nd

In case you’ve missed what’s happening at TVWriter™, the most popular blog posts during the week ending yesterday were:

Peggy Bechko’s World: “What do I need to Write?” read article

Web Series: “Winners” Really Is

Best comedy series we’ve seen in a long time – on the web, TV, wherever.

You’ll be glad to checked this one out:

Everything you need to know about Winners – within reason, anyway. read article

More Stuff We Wanted to Repost Here But, um, Didn’t

Some recent articles from other websites on TV, TV writing, and the TV biz that we think y’all should know about:

Severed limbs and intertextuality: your guide to Endeavour’s hidden secrets
by Andrew Collins

endeavour read article

The Importance of Staring Out Of The Window

Found on the interwebs!

This marvelous video about what creatives do to drive their families, friends, co-workers, and employers mad…while keeping themselves sane. Time now for everyone to take a cell phone or work break and do what comes naturally: Gaze out the window and chillax!

See more stuff designed to protect our sanity at The School of Life

Empty Promises: My experience submitting scripts to Amazon Studios

LB’S UPDATE 4/15/18: Looks like Amazon has thrown in the towel on even pretending to be considering work from newbies. Here’s part of an email on the subject that I got yesterday:

Hi Larry,

As we have grown and evolved over the last several years, we are making changes to our website and closing our open call for script and concept submissions. As of April 13, 2018, we are no longer accepting submissions. Submissions received will continue to be reviewed and evaluated by Amazon Studios and will be available on our website until June 30, 2018. Thank you all for your contributions. read article