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Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #112 “Angels”

THE USUAL NOTE FROM LB: From the summer of 2002 to  the spring of 2010, Gwen the Beautiful and I were the proud and often exhausted owners of a beautiful Ozarks property we called Cloud Creek Ranch.

In many ways, the ranch was paradise. But it was a paradise with a price that started going up before we even knew it existed. Here’s another Monday musing about our adventure and the lessons we learned.

Oh, and if y’all detect any irony, please believe me when I say it comes straight from the universe and not your kindly Uncle Larry B. read article

Latest on WGAW Connect

What has our Writers Guild done for us lately?

Glad you asked because the Guild has a wonderful answer in Writers Connect, a short newsletter members get every week. (See? Another good reason to bust your butt to qualify and join.)

Organizing in Animation

Members successfully push for Guild coverage of short-form and TV animation projects. read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – September 7, 2020

Good morning! Welcome to another week of TV (and other) writing and production tips at TVWriter™. Here’s a look at the most popular blog posts and resource pages during the  last 7 days.

They are, in order: read article

Seth Godin – Life, the Internet, and Everything

SEO guru Seth Godin on using our creative skills to give more to society than “stupid entertainments.” This might make you mad, but the dood’s an expert on productivity so we’re counting on what you watch and listen to in the video below making you a more profound creator as well as an angry one. (Let us know if we’re right or wrong, okay?)

This one’s brought to us by The On Being Project. Because Being is better than Nothingness, yeah? (Um, that’s an old existentialist in joke for which we pretend to apologize.)

How to trick people into thinking you’re good looking

Regular TVWriter™ visitors may recall a certain editor who variously called himself Muncher or muncher or Munchman or munchman or even Tim Muncher in his earliest days here.

Tim is still a great TVWriter™ friend and total bud to our Beloved Leader LB. He’s just too busy being amazingly cool, rich, talented, and successful to mess around with this site anymore.

Recently, this TVWriter™ minion (who, for whatever it may be worth to y’all, is female) got to talking with the munchy one and asked a question that I may regret to the end of my days. The convo went like this: read article