What’s that you said? “Why won’t TV show people who aren’t rich?” It’s a good question, especially for this aging TVWriter™ minion who as a proud Gen Xer can uncategorically state, “Because was ever thus.”
Luckily for all of us, here’s an article that explains it much better:
What can we say after we’ve said this:
“Edgar Allan Poe attempts to keep a writing vlog while Lenore the Lady Ghost haunts his study.”
And if that logline isn’t enough in itself, here’s the first episode (which will take less time to watch than it took this TVWriter™ minion’s ex to read that very same logline:
How about that headline? Clickbait or fact, what do you think?
Take a look and then let me know:
Truth to tell, el munchero found Gray Jones’ YouTube channel a very helpful site indeed, and – maybe more importantly – its very existence in this way, shape and form points out something every writer needs to know:
Writers of all stripes get feedback from all sorts of people – sometimes it’s solicited and sometimes it just jumps out at you. We handle all that feedback in a lot of different ways. But, there’s the feedback from knowledgeable sources we all have to pay strict attention to.
When a screenwriter gets it from on high and is told where a script may be lacking, that’s not a time to argue. When a novelist gets feedback from an Editor or Publisher, that is not the time to argue.
Don’tcha just hate all those writing memes about grammar? Not-so-confidentially, so do we. But this one, found on God’s Gift To Social Mayhem, aka Facebook, does make a few points of writerly importance:
Waitaminnit! Judged? By whom? I dare she, he, it, or they?