TVWriter™ Top Posts for the Week Ending 3/6/15

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MUNCHMAN’S NOTE: I’m editing TVWriter™ this weekend, about which I’ll post more later. Meanwhile, don’t worry, I promise not to change this sacred column. Besides, why would I? It’s all cut-and-paste anyway, and I’d be even crazier than some people say I am if I tried to give myself more week. As for the rest of today’s and tomorrow’s posts,well, that might be another matter….

Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts during the past week: read article

TVWriter™ Top Posts for the Week Ending 2/27/15

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Here they are, the most viewed TVWriter™ posts during the past week:

TV Writing Master Class from HELIX Showrunner read article

Peggy Bechko: Writing, Solitude, and Us (Writers)

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by Peggy Bechko

Solitude

Yes, that’s the subject for today. A writer can’t worry about being alone. A reader must welcome alone time to be able to read.

Solitude is the sunshine that allows creativity to flourish. In the quiet time your thoughts can take shape and you can focus. You can unwind, face inner demons, reach deep and find out who you really are. I focus more on the writer, but the same applies to the reader. There are times when we simply need to do nothing, to just sit and be, in order to feel the creativity rise up from the depths of cool solitude. Even while you do nothing, you’re doing something. In the stillness lies the kernel of creativity. read article