Cartoon: Creativity

TVWriter™’s all-time favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, recently collaborated with Carlos Gonzalez-Sancho and Stephan Vincent-Lancrin on a series of comics for the OECD Center for Educational Research and Innovation. Here’s our fave.

A great example of why y’all should buy his newest book, amiright? read article

Have a Movie Idea? Netflix is Now Looking for Aspiring Writers

Speaking of opportunities (as we were yesterday) here’s a piece about Netflix’s latest search for new writers.

To be honest, after the way Netflix closed out noobs in favor of going to old pros for its streaming shows, we aren’t sure how genuine their interest is.

On the other hand, Ron Howard and Brian Glazer are involved, and LB’s wife, Gwen the Beautiful, met Ron and his wife at a party a few years ago and was impressed by how real they were, so this could be the Real Deal. Here’s the deets. read article

Is this the future of TV writing?

Of course television writers’ relationship with Zoom is love-hate. So’s our relationship with television! And writing! And…

But we digress. Here’s the video:

And a well done related article too: read article

Writing Gig: How-To Geek Is Looking for a Remote Full-Time Technology Writer

It ain’t TV, but it’s a genuine writing gig that you can tell your friends and family about if you get it.

EDITOR’S NOTE: We aren’t recommending or guaranteeing this job, just letting you know it’s available. (Our lawyers made us say that.)

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Herbie J Pilato Talks ‘Star Trek: Picard’

Here’s TVWriter™’s pioneering Consulting Editor Emeritus with his perspective on the latest incarnation of Jean-Paul Picard AKA Everybody’s Favorite Father Figure. “O captain my captain…!”

by Herbie J Pilato

Writer/producer Herbie J Pilato is the host of the TV talk show THEN AGAIN WITH HERBIE J PILATO, now streaming on Amazon Prime and the author of several pop-culture/media tie-in books. He has been part of TVWriter™ for over 20 years and is Contributing Editor Emeritus. Learn more about Herbie J HERE.