Category: Productivity

You Aren’t Only What You Do, You’re Who You Are

For the first decade or so of TVWriter™ our BBB LB (that’s, uh, “Beloved Big Boss Larry Brody for those who missed those glorious days) used to harp about how “whatever your job title, you’re really a salesman.” This drove writers insane cuz let’s face it, most writers see themselves as just about anything but salesmen.

These days LB doesn’t have to keep pushing that idea.

First, because now he can say “whatever you’re writing, you’re really an entrepreneur” and make it all sound, well, rather grand. An existence we all want to rise to. read article

TVWriter™ Advanced Workshop has a Couple of Openings

writersm1Yeppers, we don’t know how it happened, but the next Advanced Online Workshop starts in less than a week and we still have two openings left.

If you’ve been wanting to take the plunge and workshop your project with LB OBL (that’s Larry Brody Our Beloved Leader), why not get into the fall back-to-school thing and sign up for 4 glorious weeks of writing, writing, writing now?

Check out the Advanced Online Workshop…quick. (Cuz the spaces go fast.) read article

Writing and the Creative Life: Routine or Ritual?

How do you get your creative groove on? Is it simply something you kind of do? Or is it a profound, almost religious necessity in order to free yourself to write?

Scott Myers interviewed one Acme Ton’o’Writers on the subject and here’s what he learned:

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The Joy of Not Wasting Your Life

EDITOR’S NOTE: Charles Bukowski was (is?) a god. What? You want proof? You got it:

People Simply Empty Out
by Charles Bukowski

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Hello John: read article

How Intelligent Constraints Drive Creativity

Translation: If everything’s too easy, we won’t bother getting to creative about it.

Translation of translation: Creatives function best when we have obstacles to overcome.

Damn. read article