Do You Feel Like a Failure?

Uh-oh….

via livingyourawesome.com

What to say, think, and do when the feeling of failure takes over your life.

Is it impossible to escape the feeling of failure? After all, don’t we feel we fail more in life than succeed? You’ve probably heard plenty of famous quotes about failure. “Giving up is the only way to fail.” “If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try, and try again.” There are literally hundreds of famous quotes on failure. They point to it being an inevitable truth of existence. And how turning failure into a learning experience is what successful people do. There is truth in all of those famous quotes. But knowing useful ways to think about failure is one thing. Understanding how to actually do it is an entirely different thing. read article

How Miserable Can You Make Your Heroes?

Pro Writing Secret of the Day

Pamela Adlon is a not-so-old pro who has learned one of the most important writing lessons (in all media) the hard way:

What’s bad for your life is good for your writing read article

Everything You Need to Know About How Authors Make Money…So You Can Too

Think you know how writers make money?

You might know some of the ways, but Nathan Bransford, author of the Jacob Wonderbar book series absolutely nails it right HERE

Dawn McElligott: Remembering Frank Bonner and ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’

Frank Bonner as WKRP’s Herb Tarlek

by Dawn McElligott

The death of actor Frank Bonner on June 16th kicked off another wave of nostalgia about one of the best sitcoms in TV history, “WKRP in Cincinnati.”

Before starring on “WKRP …” Frank Bonner had been acting in commercials and had small roles in such shows as “Mannix.” As “WKRP …” came together, the unpredictable machinations of casting helped Bonner get his big break.

According to MeTV.com, David Cassidy had originally been offered the part of Dr. Johnny Fever but the former “Partridge Family” star turned it down. read article

Cartoon: ‘Getting Over’

Time now for another episode of what we here at TVWriter™ sometimes think of as “the Tao of cartoonist-philosopher Grant Snider. What’s that? You don’t get it? Then get over it!

More of Grant Snider’s sensitive perception of humanity and creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE