You may not understand it right now, but when the time comes that you find yourself creating your own version of the note above by literary critic and essayist Edmund Wilson you’ll know that – finally! – you’re a writing success.
Which reminds us of the immortal words of Josh Olson, an Academy Award nominee for his A History of Violence script: “I will not read your fucking script.”
The Writers Guild of America, West honors what we would call “Writers Who’ve Done What Will All Dream of Doing” in this “cherce” (a couple of top writers wrote that word in a screenplay over 70 years ago!) panel discussion that we at TVWriter™ thoroughly enjoyed:
Every now and then a film or television show comes along that changes the way people think and behave. It illuminates prejudices, inequalities and social issues or opens a window onto the lives of a group of people that has been marginalized or overlooked on TV and in the movies.
Our favorite artist/philosopher, Grant Snider, raises our consciousness once again:
Dunno about you, but each and every one of us here at TVWriter™ would be proud to be the subject of a local newspaper article like this:
YUCCA VALLEY — “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad,” “Sonic the Hedgehog” and more have all featured the animation writing of Francis Moss. Moss has called the Hi-Desert home for the past four years and is continuing writing after an illustrious career of working for beloved animation shows.
Starting in 1980, Moss’ career started with episodes of “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.” His work ground to a halt thanks to a writers’ strike, but found a job with an animation company that had just started making “She-Ra, Princess of Power.”
Sam Bobrick is a miracle of a man, and most certainly as a writer.
The legendary literati, bard, and musical and comedic genius, is responsible for everything from songs for Elvis, to classic TV hits like Bewitched and The Andy Griffith Show, to over forty stage plays, including “Norman, Is That You” (co-authored with Ron Clark), which was adapted for the big-screen in 1976.
With his newest stage presentation, “New York Water” (now playing at the Pico Playhouse in Los Angeles through December 17th), Bobrick’s flair for the written word and ear for the funny bone, shines on.