LB: Who’s Your Audience?

by Larry Brody

Regular visitors to TVWriter™ know I spend a lot of time (some may say too much) writing about gearing your work toward its intended audience. The reason for that is this variation of an old philosophical conundrum:

“If a teleplay, screenplay, novel, or short story is written but never read or viewed, does it really exist?”

In my younger, more ambitious days, the answer to this question was a quick and usually angry shout: “HELL %^#@ing NO!”

Now, however, I’ve moved on to a new perspective, having discovered that:

Even if I don’t write the story I’ve been thinking about, the joy I feel just imagining the twists and turns and truth (and lies) it may contain proves I exist – and at my age that’s more than enough.

So life goes.

Author: LB

A legendary figure in the television writing and production world with a career going back to the late ’60s, Larry Brody has written and produced hundreds of hours of American and worldwide television and is a consultant to production companies and networks in the U.S. and abroad . Shows written or produced by Brody have won several awards including - yes, it's true - Emmys, Writers Guild Awards, and the Humanitas Award. View all posts by LB