Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #142 “Gadgets!”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned. read article

Top Views & Trends on TVWriter™ in the Week Ending 3/28/21

Thumbs Up Y’all

Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™.  Today we begin with a look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last 7 days.

They are, in order:

Writing the Dreaded Outline read article

Phoebe Waller-Bridge interview on writing Fleabag

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is huge these days, which makes a helluva lot of sense she’s hugely talented (and that may be much too mild a description).

This video is a must-see for all writers, and if you’re an actor (as Ms. Waller-Bridge also is) we think you’ll gain new insight into how to read and play and otherwise do your thing when you’re in front of the camera.

via Outstanding Screenplays YouTube Channel

The delicate relationship between grief and fanfiction

…Explained for us all by a psychologist, via Aja Romano on Vox.Com. This is the most fascinating read we’ve, erm, read, in a verry long time.

Several years ago, while I was dealing with the death of a close family member, a strange thing happened: I suddenly found myself unable to stop watching Supernatural. I’d never been a huge fan of the show, but I’d recently decided to catch up on its many seasons. So I began marathoning episodes — though it was more like I inhaled them at a level approaching nihilism. read article

Cartoon: ‘The Hierarchy of Needs’

TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider knows what he needs. What about you?

See more of Grant Snider’s extraordinary perceptions of human creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE read article