ABC Family Renews MELISSA AND JOEY for Its 4th Season

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…To which we can only respond:

MELISSA AND JOEY? It’s a show? On the air? Watched by human people? read article

Healthy Living (And Peer Production) Dept: IT’S NOT ABOUT THE NAIL

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Truth! Here! Now!

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Extra! Want to be a Writer with the Tribune Company?

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So we, um, just happened to find this on the web. A mistaken click while, you know, looking for porn.

Okay, we confess. Like every other baby writer, we’re always on the hunt for an Industry doorway to stick our foot into. But, unselfish souls that we are, we’re passing this one on. (As opposed to “passing on this one.” Heh. Sure.) read article

LB: RIP TVWriter.Com Message Board

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When TVWriter™ first started, the heart and soul of the site was our Message Board. Writers at all levels posted questions and answers and rants, but only twice in its entire 10+ year history was anyone asked to leave and never darken our door again. Because we were all colleagues, in the trenches together, fighting the fight for truth, justice, and art and reserving our darkest vitriol for the “suits.”

Tens of thousands of posts on every imaginable topic gave genuine weight to our community. But the parade of history – and tech – never stops, and by 2008 or so it was clear that the Board had peaked and was on the decline. Since then, the number of new members and conversations has dwindled as social networks and the blog format grew into the online communication vehicles of choice. read article

Angelo J. Bell: 1 Is All You Need

For the record: TVWriter™ is here to be that “person” for you. Angelo has very clearly elucidated what this site is all about.

by Angelo J. Bell

Imagine

Imagine, after years of form-letter rejection notices, hang-ups, unreturned phone calls, spending thousands on screenwriting contests, pitch festivals, seminars, workshops and “how to write screenplays that sell” books, you finally do it. You finally sell a screenplay. That “1? is enough to sustain you as go through the same process again and again. 1 is all you need.

Imagine, after countless auditions, call-backs, featured extra roles, casting workshops, spending thousands on head shots, and more head shots; assembling, cutting and editing your reel for the umpteenth time, designing post cards, for your hundredth mailing…finally you nail it. The role of a lifetime! The role you’ve been dreaming of since you were a child comes your way. That “1? role is damn near erases all the stress, pain, anxiety, suffering and fear you’ve felt for decades. That “1? is enough to send you right back into the abyss to do it all over. read article