The wit and wisdom of David S. Simon (MAD ABOUT YOU, THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR, THE WAYANS BROTHERS, etc).
Did that sound snarky? It wasn’t intended that way. How can TVWriter™ help but love the man responsible for this spot on description of showbiz achievement: “Failure is just ‘sucksess.'”
Here’s the plain, simple truth: most of us fail like unbroken clockwork most of the time. In fact you could say that the only thing that we succeed at with any regularity is failure.
Good advice for writers and creatives of all kinds, courtesy of Rita Karnopp’s and Ginger Simpson’s fine blog:
When we hear the word ‘balance’ then add writing and life, an author could almost laugh. It’s a bit of a facetious statement.
When I started writing my children were very young, five and three. So I scheduled my writing time after they went to bed around nine and wrote until two or three in the morning. But, that’s not to say I never wrote during the day – because I did. My office space was in our front living room (because we never used it, we always used the huge family room to the back of the house facing the mountains) and my desk faced the hallway toward the bedrooms. The kids, and their friends, came in and out of that front door – past me – how many times a day?
A problem we all wish we had, right?
by David BloomAmid all the deal maker swagger and pubescent screams at [the recent] giant Vidcon gathering in Anaheim, CA, one nagging question kept presenting itself: how do YouTube creators stay “authentic” to their demanding and devoted fans even as cheaper/better tech, vaulting creative ambition and the desire to make a living keep pushing into the equation. It’s a complicated question for this fast-evolving new media platform.
Most of the YouTube creators now boasting millions of followers started out with modest production values, technology and creative capabilities. Now, as those swooning Vidcon attendees can attest, the creators have fans, who have Expectations, which they share publicly and loudly. It’s a bit like the indie rock band that finally signs to a major label. Fans who thought they “discovered” and “owned” the band start screaming “sell-out.”
by Team TVWriter™ Press Service…And, frankly, the categories and nominations for writing awards as well as everything else (Best Guest Star category? Huh?) are so screwed that it’s impossible for TVWriter™ to take the process seriously this year. (Not that we had all that much respect for how the whole Emmy thing was set up and run before.)
So instead of listing the writing nominees, as we’ve done in years gone by, we suggest you check ’em out at the SOURCE.
Or better yet, don’t bother.
No, really, are you writing the projects you want to and need to complete? Are you getting those ideas down on paper? Writing stories? Writing articles?
Or do you feel like you’re not getting any writing done despite the fact that you sit in front of a computer for hours, fingers flying? Do you feel like you’re accomplishing little to nothing, that you’re procrastinating, not getting to the writing you need to do?
Of course you’re writing. I’ll bet you’re sending emails to friends and business associates, probably texting like crazy, posting to Facebook, maybe writing promo blurbs. How much writing does all that add up to? Have you added it up? How many words did you write with all that?
