$3.9 Million Reasons Not to let Rejection Get You Down

Take a good look at the pic above by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Originally intended as the cover image for The Blue Lotus, the fifth book in Hergé’s Tintin series, the publisher rejected it because it would cost too much to reproduce.

Well, last week 85 years after the said publishers had it redrawn for publication, this painting –  complete with fold marks from being stored who knows where for over three quarters of a century, sold at a Paris auction for just a shade under $4,000,000. read article

Read the full screenplay of ‘On the Rocks’

If you check out the film On the Rocks on Wikipedia, here’s what you’ll see:

On the Rocks is a 2020 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It follows a father and daughter (Bill Murray and Rashida Jones) as they tail her suspicious husband (Marlon Wayans). read article

Creating The Queen’s Gambit

A lesson in fortitude. It took writer Scott Frank 14 years to get his script for The Queen’s Gambit made into a film not only one of the most popular in the history of Netflix, but also beloved by critics. Here’s part of the story:

And here’s another, deeper part from Screencraft.Org: read article

LB’s Favorite New Places on TVWriter™

by Larry Brody

The pages below are all relatively new and startlingly popular here on TVWriter™.

Team TVWriter™ did a terrific job creating them, and I’m proud as, um, punch at their success (OMG! did I just quote Richard Nixon? Anyone here old enough to remember or care?). read article

Cartoon: ‘The Meaning of Life’

TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, aims his inks at the greatest issue in the history of mankind. As far as we’re concerned, not only is he one of the bravest Big Thinkers around, he’s also one who’s got things pretty darn right.

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