Seth Godin – Life, the Internet, and Everything

SEO guru Seth Godin on using our creative skills to give more to society than “stupid entertainments.” This might make you mad, but the dood’s an expert on productivity so we’re counting on what you watch and listen to in the video below making you a more profound creator as well as an angry one. (Let us know if we’re right or wrong, okay?)

This one’s brought to us by The On Being Project. Because Being is better than Nothingness, yeah? (Um, that’s an old existentialist in joke for which we pretend to apologize.)

How to trick people into thinking you’re good looking

Regular TVWriter™ visitors may recall a certain editor who variously called himself Muncher or muncher or Munchman or munchman or even Tim Muncher in his earliest days here.

Tim is still a great TVWriter™ friend and total bud to our Beloved Leader LB. He’s just too busy being amazingly cool, rich, talented, and successful to mess around with this site anymore.

Recently, this TVWriter™ minion (who, for whatever it may be worth to y’all, is female) got to talking with the munchy one and asked a question that I may regret to the end of my days. The convo went like this: read article

All You Should Know About Plot Twists – in Under 18 Minutes

Ready? Knives out!

Discovered at The Closer Look YouTube Channel

Is It Time to Rekindle Your Passion for Writing?

Last week LB  tweeted his “secret” for regaining the thrill of writing (assuming, of course, that you’ve lost it. As is his wont, it was simple and direct:

No longer feeling the thrill of writing? Try using a yellow pad. Writing by hand changes the way your brain experiences the process. Enjoy the words flowing from your fingertips.

Sometimes, however, writers need something more, well, more philosophical. So we searched the web and found this most helpful piece on one of our fave sites, Bang2Write.Com. Hope it helps! read article

Kelly Jo Brick: On Building a Creative Career

It’s been over a year since Kelly Jo Brick graced this site. We would have said “well over a year,” but there’s nothing “well” or even okay about it.

Anyway, direct from her FinalDraft.Com column, some helpful advice about the “bricks of breaking in.” Rock on, KJB!

Andrea Ciannavei of Mayans M.C.

Bricks of Breaking In: TV Writer Andrea Ciannavei on Building a Creative Career
by Kelly Jo Brick

While there is no one path to break in as a film or TV writer, there are a lot of similar challenges — both internal and external — that aspiring writers have to confront. Below, Mayans M.C. writer Andrea Ciannavei shares how she faced the odds to grow her career as a television writer. read article