Category: Productivity

PJ McIlvaine: The Best Laid Plans…

Ms McIlvaine relaxing in her domain

by PJ McIlvaine

As I sit here, coughing, hacking, and sneezing, with my nose a continual fountain of snot and mucus, I had started off January with such high hopes. I always do…until reality bites me in the butt.

2018 ended with a bang. In late November, my husband had major surgery. It was quite unexpected, and the surgeon was candid in what could go wrong. Maybe too candid, which only added to our fear, worry, and confusion. Thankfully, husband sailed through it, and is now pretty much back to normal.

What is not back to normal is my writing routine. read article

It’s Quentin Tarantino Week at TVWriter™ Part 4

Not Mr. Tarantino hisself but a very close up and personal friend

Previously on TVWriter™’s Quentin Tarantino week

Previously but not as previously as the above previous video

Previously as in yesterday for Quentin baby’s week read article

It’s Quentin Tarantino Week at TVWriter™ Part 3

Previously on TVWriter™’s Quentin Tarantino week

Previously but not as previously as the above previous video read article

It’s Quentin Tarantino Week at TVWriter™ Part 2

As promised yesterday, here’s more writing wisdom and insight from an auteur who actually functions as just that, a genuine auteur.

By which we mean, of course, Quentin Tarantino, who we TVWriter™ minions firmly believes to be honored in any way he can for as long as he can because without Pulp Fiction we never could have survived film school. read article

It’s Quentin Tarantino Week at TVWriter™ Part 1

For reasons that you’ll either already know or, if you don’t, that you’ll never know, Quentin Tarantino is a very Big Deal Screenwriter in addition to being a Very Very Big Deal Film Director and a Very Very Very Big Deal All-Round Film-Maker.

How Big Deal is Mr. Tarantino? Let’s put it this way. We here at TVWriter™ have decided not only to feature his wit and wisdom on our site this week, we’re even going to forgive him for refusing to join the Writers Guild of America – West or East.

Here it is, then, this week’s first appearance by The Big Deal Guy His Very Self, in His Very Own Words about two of our favorite subjects: read article