Antoine Fuqua Wants To Help Get Your Film Project Made

by TVWriter™ Press Service

Director Antoine Fuqua, whose films include Training Day, Tears of the Sun, and Olympus has Fallen as well as a ton of very well-done others, is making a new name for himself as an online mentor and teacher.

Fuqua’s website, aptly named antoinefuqafilms.com, shows just three pages in addition to the Home Page. read article

Jill Olmsted’s ‘Tools for Podcasting’

Here we go, everybody. The Tools for Podcasting site (it’s really just a page with one terrific link) has everything we all need to produce professional sounding podcasts, including – yay! – fiction podcasting AKA audio fiction, audio series, et al.

Yeppers, kids, we here at TVWriter™ are Big Believers in free, unfettered, ungatekeepered, single-handed creation, and the contents of this site, Jill Olmsted’s Tools for Podcasting book, certainly appears to be absolutely free.

Big thanks to the School of Communication, American University, for the most helpful freebie this TVWriter™ minion has seen in a lo-ong time. read article

The World’s Most Comfy Pop Music Festival

LB’S NOTE: How about we call this a “time out for a personal moment”moment? The Seattle Times knows the deep but not at all dirty secret of my current place of residence. Not that Port Townsend, WA tries to hide it. Oh no! Port Townsend just plain doesn’t hide anything.

THING review: How successful was the first year of the intimate festival created by the founder of Sasquatch?
by Michael Rietmulder

Jeff Tweedy got his cantaloupe, all right. read article

Everything You Need to Know About Screenwriting – via Judge Parker

Looks to us like Francesco Marciuliano, writer of the syndicated comic strip Judge Parker, has his eye on the Big Prize – a moneymaking screenplay, reality be damned.

Or is it just us? What do you think?

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #61 – “Vacation Cows…?”

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