Category: Resources

40 years worth of TV writing experience and info, yours for the taking.

Peggy Bechko’s World of Writing Myths

by Peggy Bechko

Here’s the first writing myth that needs exploding – “Being a writer is a good way to get rich quick!”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA – need I say more? read article

Dennis O’Neil: Teen Angst

by Dennis O’Neil

I must have encountered Archie Comics while I was still young and innocent before the brassy hell we knew as high school — and military high school at that – before I began my ten-year abstinence from reading comic books. I can’t remember a time when Archie and his pals and gals weren’t on my radar somewhere (though the blip was probably dim and small. One of those deals where I knew something but didn’t know I knew it.)

The Archie posse was one of a bunch of similar groups that were sprinkled throughout the media in the years immediately before and after the Second World War. But the genre was born decades earlier, in the 1920s when the younger set began to be identified as a consumer group with few bucks in their pockets. The fictional teens got a boost from a series of movies starring Mickey Rooney as the lovable Andy Hardy, and then came the comics featuring guys and gals with names like Candy, Binky, Corliss Archer, Henry Aldrich, Patsy Walker. True confession: I once, briefly contributed to the Patsy scene. Way more fun than high school. read article

Overused Words & Phrases to Avoid

Or embrace, whatever. After all, we don’t want to seem dictatorial. Here’s the list, so you can keep them in mind:

FOUND at GrammarCheck.Net
(which can be a very helpful site so go have a LOOK)

How Louis CK Tells a Joke

And since he tells some very fine jokes, and considering that how he tells ’em is a damn good way to write ’em, we think this video just might be of interest:

And there ya go. Now it’s – your turn!

Dennis O’Neil: Ecclesiastes

by Dennis O’Neil

There, on the mountain and the sky,

On all the tragic scene they stare. read article