Last Week’s Most Important Cord Cutting Developments – 3/2/2021

Cord Cutters News gives us the latest on the cord cutting front. This time around: Paramount+ Launch, Pluto TV Rumors, Roku’s Ad Deal, and More!

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Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #139 “Bob Sabaroff & the Birth of ‘Paradise'”

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 3/7/21

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:

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #138 “A Quiet Winter’s Walk” read article

Stephanie Bourbon on Rejection

LB’S NOTE: One of our fave TV writers-illustrators-screenwriters-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, reminds us that “it happens to all of us. Every writer has been rejected.” Here are her thoughts on handling this, erm, uncomfortable situation.

ACK I’m Still Getting Rejected!
by Stephanie Bourbon

UGH, you have sent in your manuscript or query letter and this time you did everything right. You took a class on writing the perfect query, you had your first pages reviewed, you sent to beta readers and STILL—the phone pings, you know you have an email, you go to it to see that big NO staring you in the face. read article

“The Agents Certainly Did Not Like Being Called Crooks”: How Hollywood Writers Won a War

A wonderful title and a pretty darn good description of what went on when the Writers Guild of America decided it was time to stop letting talent agencies screw us.

What’s that? The above makes it sound like we’re biased? Well, we are. And that does not make us wrong.

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