Indie Video: MAKING YOUR FIRST FILM WHATEVER IT TAKES

Another extremely helpful Ted Talks video about showbiz and how to make the most of whatever you’ve got.

Watching this one, what fascinates this TVWriter™ minion most isn’t the good  advice. Instead, it’s the amazing, pro-level public speaking ability of Nicolas Forzy, the dude giving the talk. No way could yrs. truly ever match that delivery.

In other words, while on the one hand Forzy’s talk has me all revved up, on the other hand Forzy’s actual existence – his natural charisma and polish, has me near tears. read article

100s of Tips All TV Writers Need

by TVWriter™ Press Service

Been to the BBC Writers Room website lately? If not, you’re missing the latest from what may well be the absolutely-bar-none best television writing site on the interwebs.

And coming from us, that’s high praise, don’tchathink? read article

10 Best Screenwriting Podcasts for Savvy Screenwriters

Over time, we here at TVWriter™ have watched Script Reader Pro grow to be much more than your typical script coverage site. It is, in fact, one of the all-around most informative film (and TV) writing sites on the planet. Witnesseth:

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from Script Reader Pro

If you’re looking for a screenwriting podcast to enhance your understanding of the craft and business of writing, here’s our choice of the top 10 best screenwriting podcasts you should be listening to.

After the list, we round up some episodes from these screenwriting podcasts according to subject matter—giving you the best screenwriting podcasts on dialogue, character, structure and so on. read article

Writers Guild of America West July 2018 Calendar

Knowing what’s going on in the Writers Guild can be helpful in many, many ways, even if you aren’t a member. So, for your edification:

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Larry Brody: “Live! From Paradise! #1”

NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I lived in the Ozarks, on a little ranch that covered a good portion of a not very tall mountain about 15 miles south of a town called Yellville, Arkansas, population roughly 1200.

We’d gone to Arkansas because Harry Thomason, with whom I’d worked on the series The Fall Guy back in the ’80s had always insisted “Arkansas is the most beautiful state in the union. It’s the perfect place to retire.”

Another thing he’d insisted back then was that his best friend and at the time the governor of Arkansas, a guy named Bill Clinton, “is going to be President someday, you’ll see.” read article