20 Lazy Word Choices Writers Make

Grammarcheck.Net has another invaluable infographic for writers everywhere.

Try not to take its title too seriously. (In other words, don’t make the same mistake some of the minions here at TVWriter™ did, okay?) read article

No One is Safe from ‘The Great Streaming Battle’

A few days ago we posted a video about recent events in the cord cutting world. Today we bring you more details, courtesy of The Wall Street Journal. In the classic early 20th Century tradition of Popeye’s “Let’s you and him fight,” we find this fascinating and hope you will too.

by Amol Sharma & Joe Flint

A new era is dawning in the entertainment world and you’re about to get a whole lot more choices—for better or worse. The streaming wars are here. read article

Do Any of Us Really Write Alone?

This article on the effect of fandom on the Good Omens miniseries brings out the quantum theorist in this TVWriter™ minion. As in – Do the acts of reading and commenting on a creative work actually change the work itself?

At the very least, it would see that they can’t keep from having an effect on the writers/ What do you think?

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Toys We Want -ASAP!!!

Current GOTTA-HAVES here at TVWriter™.

What? You thought we were all old and serious and such? Hell, even our Beloved Leader, Larry Brody, who’s older than, well, than all those hills people are always “as old as,” has shelled out for the following. Now if we can only get him to put them on the shelf in our cube.)

Avengers: Endgame MMS558 Hulk 1/6th Scale Collectible Figure
BY HOT TOYS – BRAND MARVEL

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Still Howling At The Moon

By Robert Herold

I recently gifted an advance reader copy of The Eidola Project, my first published novel, to TVWriter™’s Larry Brody with a huge thank-you for providing the impetus to write it.

He responded a few days later with a review of the first twenty-five pages, saying how much he was enjoying the book. He also asked me to write a piece for TVWriter™ on how I came to write this “wonderful” (his word!) novel at the cusp of qualifying for senior discounts at various retailers (I’m 63). So, move in a little closer to the screen boys and girls and I’ll tell ya. read article