Users’ Guide to ANIMATION on TVWriter™

Redundant but necessary verbiage:

TVWriter™ is more than just daily posts about TV, writing, and the collected obsessions of those of us who work here? It’s also the longest running, most complete site about the ins and outs, both creative and economic, of television writing on the web. We’re talking contests, workshops, and page after page of info based on Larry Brody’s 30+ year long career. read article

Peggy Bechko: Writers & Readers’ Responses

The reader’s response is not something a writer might necessarily focus on when he or she is writing. More likely is the focus on character, plot, action and putting it all across.

Still, that reader’s response is something we all need to keep tucked away at the back of our minds when writing. Something that seems perfectly okay to the writer might really throw a curve for the reader. read article

Use Your Ideas While They’re Hot

…Which means before you get tired of them. Cuz according to Steve Corona, if you wait too long your precious creative babies are, well, they’re toast:

Ideas have a 2 week shelf life – by Steve Corona

I have a new rule that I’m making for myself and holding others to. read article