Well, that’s what we do here on TVWriter™, right?
Which means this is the right place and time to let everybody know that today, right now, LB’s know-it-all book, Television Writing from the Inside Out is on sale at Amazon for only 99 cents, which is 81% off the list price. This is the Kindle version, but this is also the modern world, gang, so immerse yourselves in the ebook experience.
Because you can never be perfect, but you can always be stupid. And stupid is more useful:
The more you look for inspiration: the less you make. When you put that much energy into watching other people make: you begin to think it’s impossible to do great work of your own.
…Which is why we aren’t messing around here today and are going right to the heart of the matter: Read this book! It was written 50 years ago, sure, but how can you not gain by learning things like this:
“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each new thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”
And this:
Ya gotta love any interweb post that opens the way this one does. What? You don’t know what we’re talking about? Read on, MacCurious:
by Emily BlakeTime for some brutal honesty.
If you decide to be a teacher or an accountant or a lawyer or a doctor or a construction worker or most jobs in this country, you have a clear order of operations to make that happen. You go to school. You get an entry level job. You work your way up. You have a career.
Here at TVWriter™ we love the freelancing creative life and find it the most fulfilling way we can think of to do what we love and make a living at the same time. So we’re really glad we stumbled across these cool ways to make it even better:
by Herbert LuiWho is your most valuable client? It’s not the one who brings you the most money. Nor is it the one who is most famous. You are your most important client, and that means you need to spend a little time refining your own process each week. Here are five ways to do just that.
Your other clients are important, but at the end of the day, you still need to pay attention to yourself. Business magnate Warren Buffett illustrates this in his authorized biography The Snowball, using his partner Charlie Munger as an example: