Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #127 “Ye Not So Olde Storyteller”

Paradise Elementary & High School

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.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – 12/21/20

Thumbs Up Y’all

Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™, starting with a look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last 7 days. They are, in order:

Corporal Punishment and Primetime TV

Why You Should Keep Your Eye on Filmmaker Kate Hackett read article

10 Writing Errors We All Need to Stop Making

Grammarcheck.Net and Jennifer Frost continue to delight us with helpful tips for writers of all media. Here’s the latest example.

BIG THANKS TO GRAMMARCHECK

10 Screenwriting Tips from Taika Waititi

Taika Waititi is a New Zealand film and TV director, producer, writer, actor, and, yes, it’s true, comedian known for his work in JoJo Rabbit and Thor Ragnarok.

Oh, and The Mandalorian too. (It would have been criminal omit his best TV work.) read article

Why You Should Keep Your Eye on Filmmaker Kate Hackett

Kate Hackett in her non-elf, human form

We were going to wait until Christmas to post this video, but the big boss man (Yeah, we’re talking about LB) want to make sure it didn’t get lost in what he calls “Surplus Christmas Madness.”

So right here, right now, we’re bringing you an extraordinary video by an extraordinary writer, director, actor, producer, editor and on and on and on. Take it away Ms. Hackett!

More from and about Kate Hackett: read article