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TVWriter™ Newsletter – July 2013

Here’s what everybody’s been waiting for since the month began – the TVWriter™ e-Newsletter that went out to subscribers yesterday. You can subscribe too. HERE.

TVWriter™ Newsletter – July 2013
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A WORD FROM LB

So here we are with summer half over and instead of lolling around and enjoying a unique opportunity to tan (yes, the sun is out in the Pacific Northwest…which is always a unique situation), I’m doing what I always do – trying to come up with ways to make TVWriter™ better. read article

Herbie J Pilato Sees THE MIDDLE

tv_the_middle03by Herbie J Pilato

I was watching The Middle on ABC the other night.

I really like the show, but not as a realistic comedy – as a fantasy…of sorts.

It’s just not real. read article

The Final WGAW 2013 Officer and Board Candidates Are…

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Current president Chris Keyser is still running unopposed?

That’s just wrong. read article

Have Another Writing Meme

After all, why not?

ionescoHmm, kinda pretentious, no? Especially since we know people who feel the same way about fucking. Oh, and smoking dope. And a coupla computer geeks who’d substitute the word “coding” for “writing.”

What does it all mean?

Be Unapologetically Focused

Everyone we know who has hit it big in showbiz has been so focused that they were scary. We’re talking so zeroed in on their goal and how to reach it that the rest of their lives were just a blur to them. The following article is one of the best ways we’ve seen this phenomenon put into words…in away mere mortals like us can learn from:

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Why Having a Great Strategy Matters
by William Allen

We will never have enough time or resources to solve the problems we want to solve. To be successful, we need to focus, and that’s why great organizations have strategies.

Strategy is a chronically overused word, thrown around with such regularity that its meaning is nearly lost.  (When you are told you should do something because it is “strategic,” be skeptical: it is too often code for “just do what I say.”) read article