Our favorite cartoonist-philosopher, Grant Snider takes on the uncertainty of creativity, just as so many of us do every writing day. With style.
More of Grant Snider’s sensitive perception of humanity and creativity at Incidental Comics, HERE
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Last Week’s Most Important Cord Cutting Developments
Cord Cutters News gives us the latest on the cord cutting front. Netflix’s Fan Event, Peacock’s Birthday, & DirecTV Stream is Here!
Cord Cutters Video Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tUZA7GiIZPaUu4FQXnFYA
LB: It isn’t just who you know…
by Larry Brody
…It’s also how you write. I truly believe – and my decades (yikes!) of experience bear me out, that the best way to break into the Industry is to write a script so powerful nobody can say “No.”
Of course it’ll help if at that point you can give it to your buddy/spouse/person who owes you money who also is the head of a studio or network or agency.
LB: When is an ending NOT an ending?
by Larry Brody
…When it arrives in the middle of the story. Our friends at Script Reader Pro put it this way back in 2019:
A great way to end your second act is to have your heroine finally get what she’s been wanting, only to then realize it isn’t what she needs, and then focusing in on what she actually needs to achieve, creating the climax of your story.
Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #164 – “More About The Navajo Dog and the Red-Tailed Hawk”
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.