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TVWriter™ Summer E-Newsletter 2016
A WORD FROM LB
As I write this, the news is coming in about the latest atrocity in our so-called civilized world – the car bomb deaths of at least 60 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice.
As a human being living in this time in this culture, I have a lot of thoughts and feelings about the violence that has defined this month, July, 2016, so far.
As a writer, I know that I should have words to accompany the thoughts and feelings, express them not only so I can sort out the sense behind the senselessness but also so I can communicate my deliberations and conclusions to a wider audience, to help that audience deal with the situation.
It’s PEOPLE’S PILOT Success Story Time!
Vesta Giles, a finalist in the 2014 People’s Pilot Competition and student in the TVWriter™ Advanced Online Workshop and Larry Brody’s Master Class, has written the upcoming Lifetime TV Movie Justice Unleashed and is, in fact hard at work rewriting her second successful Lifetime sale even as we speak.
Justice Unleashed is the story of a woman judge searching for her runaway daughter, who has become the victim of human traffickers, and LB remembers its origin vividly.
“Vesta wrote a hard-hitting, totally unsentimental script in my class. I was amazed by the power in her work to start with and even more impressed by the way she responded to criticism and made it even better. Vesta knows how to listen and learn and put into practice what she learns. She has the superpower of being able to ‘get it.’ And that’s a rare and valuable power indeed.”
SHADES OF BLUE AKA The Art of Sex, Lies, and Power Plays
by Diana Black
What has sex got to do with Television – everything and nothing, and I’m seriously not trying to be ‘clever’. No smut intended – but think about it – it’s all about the promise, tease, tension, reveal, fear, pay-off, raw intimacy, honesty or deception etc. etc.
Or is it? Is all this sex really about…sex? Let’s explore ‘the elephant’ in the bedroom. Isn’t TV sex, in essence, actually an efficient – and entertaining – way of presenting something deeper, as in power and manipulation?
Going further, we could contemplate whether that manipulation of power is: balanced or totally one-sided, violent – psychologically and/or physically, or heart-felt tender? Does this all sound familiar? And in no way am I referring to anyone’s ‘status’ regarding virginity.
Diana Vacc sees Outlander Episode 12 “The Hail Mary”
by Diana Vaccarelli
This episode of Outlander, entitled “The Hail Mary,” is Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Claire’s (Caitriona Balfe) last chance to stop the brutal Battle of Culloden.
If you haven’t viewed this episode yet be warned this review may contain spoilers.
THE GOOD: