Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #102 “Looking Forward to the Past”

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

2020 Daytime Emmy Writing Awards

The 2020 Daytime Emmys were given out last Friday night, and our quick look indicates that the most complete listing of the winners was at Deadline.Com, so we urge you to get your completist selves over there ASAP.

Here at TVWriter™, of course, our primary concerns are the “Best Writing” category, and since we aren’t huge daytime TV experts we were surprised to see that this year (maybe every year?) there were only two categories for daytime writing, namely–

Outstanding Writing Team for a Drama Series
WINNER: “The Bold and the Beautiful”
“The Young and the Restless”
“General Hospital”
“Days of Our Lives” read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – June 29, 2020

Good morning! Welcome to another week of TV (and other) writing and production tips at TVWriter™. Here’s a look at the most popular blog posts and resource pages during the  last 7 days.

They are, in order: read article

Stephanie Bourbon on Copyrighting Your Work

One of our fave writer-illustrator-screenwriting-vloggers, Stephanie Bourbon, answers a question on a subject that just may have crossed your mind. (In other words, of course you’ve thought about this!

Do I Need To Copyright My Novel/Work?
by Stephanie Bourbon

The other day in a massive FB group a new writer posted the question when do I need to copyright my book? And as FB is always a place for arguing it got heated so I decided that it was needed to write a quick blog about it to help you! read article

WGAW Letter on Returning to Work

June 17, 2020
Dear Members,

There are ongoing and increasingly urgent discussions in the industry about how and when to resume production. We know some members are feeling anxious about what new protocols might mean for writers, so we wanted to give you a brief update. read article