Sometimes it seems as though reality is constantly trying to close in on our creativity, that the world is fighting an unending battle with our creative wills.
And sometimes, if you live in a place like TVWriter™’s home base of Port Townsend, WA, you find a reality that lets you live and breathe free and true. For example:
Way back in the interweb dark ages, around the turn of the 21st Century, “Siggy” Olafsdottir was one of my first online writing students, and even though English was as far from being her native language as Icelandic is from mine, she proved herself to be one My-T-Fine-Writer.
In the years that have passed since, Ms. Olafsdottie has relocated to London, where she now is as a modern fairy tale might express it, “Sigrun Bjork Olafsdottir, one of the most highly regarded fashion designers in the land.”
Recently Sigrun has partnered with her sister, Icelandic pop star Alda Bjork Olafsdottir, in the production of videos intended to:
Grant Snider, philosopher-cartoonist extraordinaire, pulls out all the stops in this interpretation of what a book fair should be/really is. It’s all a matter of looking at it in just the right light.
This TVWriter™ minion’s favorite area is the “Fresh-Squeezed Romance” stand. What’s yours?
Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.
The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.
Mark Evanier, one of TVWriter™s favorite creative forces, is the possessor of more writing knowledge than just about every textbook except LB’s. Here he is answering one of the first questions every pro writer is always asked because – yes, it’s true – to this very day he’s still participating in his first life – writing comics!
Richard Gagnon writes…