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Larry Brody’s Poetry: ‘Kid Hollywood Returns To The Scene Of The Crime’

The real Mulholland Drive

by Larry Brody

NOTE FROM LB: 

After over two decades of taking – and giving – abuse as a television writer and producer, I left my Hollywood life behind and trekked (by SUV, of course) to the Southwest, tracking the magic I’d long believed in but never been part of. Thanks to the Navajo Dog, I found a path that was good and true. But sometimes a man needs a break, you know? The following happened during a short visit to – well, the title tells it all:

Kid Hollywood Returns To The Scene Of The Crime

Three of us drove up toward Mulholland that night, read article

A Trip to ‘Emerald City’ (POV #2)

EDITOR’S NOTE: Time now for the second perspective on Emerald City. Which do you agree with, #1 or this one, #2?

Characterization, Emerald City style. Right – it isn’t there!

by Robin Reed

It’s not that I object to a new take on L. Frank Baum’s Oz stories. I read Philip Jose Farmer’s “A Barnstormer in Oz.” I tried to read Gregory Maguire’s “Wicked” (and I just now learned that there are three more books) but Maguire managed to make a magical, enchanted land boring. I haven’t seen the musical based on his book. The original books are in public domain, so new versions are inevitable.

I was in college when I first saw “The Wizard of Oz” with Judy Garland in color. The change from black and white to color was wasted on me before that because I only saw it on black and white TVs. I have liked it ever since. I’m not a big musical lover, but the comedy and vaudeville shtick made me like it. read article

Diana Vacc sees ‘Emerald City’ (POV #1)

EDITOR’S NOTE: We didn’t mean to play “Dueling Emerald City”s, but as fate would have it, we find ourselves with two very different reviews of the same show to share. Which is cool because, seriously, what kind of world would it be if everybody always agreed?

Here’s #1:

by Diana Vaccarelli

On January 6, 2017 NBC introduced a new show called Emerald City. This series is a modern re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz. This time around Dorothy is a nurse in a nursing home and is in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dorothy is then swept into Oz in a police car during a tornado. read article

Peggy Bechko’s Approach to Making Your Fiction Writing Real

by Peggy Bechko

Suck ‘em in. Don’t let go of their eyeballs – whether they be script reader, editor or reader, that’s your goal as a writer. And I know you’ve all experienced it yourselves. That film that’s fantastic, the book that draws you in until you forget where you are. Some writers have a native ability to paint those characters and backgrounds in such a way that they feel real.

So how do they do that? How can the rest of us writers do the same?

One way is to add realism. read article

TVWriter™ Don’t-Miss Posts of the Week – January 23, 2017

Here we go, TVWriter™’s  latest look at our 5 most popular blog posts of the week ending yesterday. They are, in order:

2016 PEOPLE’S PILOT Semi-Finalists! read article