This TVWriter™ minion’s favorite video of the week. (The week I found it, not the week it went online. That was metaphorical centuries ago, but I just saw it last Monday!
A Delve Video Essay by Adam Westbrook
Category: Productivity
The Psychological Benefits of Writing Regularly
Because God knows how difficult it is to suck financial benefits out of what we write, especially at the beginning of our careers:
by Gregory Ciotti
When you attempt to envision a writer, I imagine many of you see a quirky recluse, hunched over a desk in some cabin, crumpled paper strewn about as they obsessively work on the next great American novel.
But writing is so much more. Prose is thought put to page, which makes all of us writers—even if we don’t have the chops to tangle with Faulkner. In most cases, writing is most useful as a tool for thinking, expression, and creativity; cabin-dwelling novelists be damned.
Peggy Bechko’s World: Your Inner Critic and You
by Peggy Bechko
Everybody and his or her brother can be a critic; is willing to criticize the writing of others…especially if they don’t write themselves, right?
And over time all that criticism from editors, producers, well-meaning friends, critical relatives who just know you’re wasting your time, a reader’s group who though well-meaning, don’t know what they’re talking about, whoever, builds up until it all super-charges the self-critic already camped in your brain. In fact, by now as a writer of scripts and/or books, you might not even be able to tell exactly who or what makes up that tyrant of a self-critic sitting in the bleachers in your brain.
It might do you some good to figure out what the composite actually is, but the main lesson to take away from this is, your writing absolutely must make your audience come back again and again. The audience must look for your name in the credits of a movie. The novel must hook the reader to return to continue reading that book and to look for more with your name on the cover of the next.
Career Advice Dept: Why We Make Irrational Decisions
Logic? Who needs logic when it comes to decision-making? We’ve all got our guts, right? Infallible instincts for where to go and how to get there?
Oh, wait:
$$$ Advice for Creatives
Ooh, “creatives!” That’s us, right, even those of us who slave away on broadcast TV?
The following has turned out to be exactly what this TVWriter™ minion needed to know to help my career and my bank account too:
by Matt McCue
The most important thing someone working in a creative business needs to remember is that it’s still a business. Just because it’s characterized as “creative” doesn’t mean that it should be fundamentally organized or run any differently than those in “serious” fields like financial services and accounting.