Getting Notes for Your Writing – The Screenwriting Life #1

Here’s an outstanding video (podcast?) for all screen and TV writers. It’s the first in a series featuring Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna, whose combined credits include writing and production on such films as Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur and Captain Marvel, and we’re hoping it will be followed by many more.

From Popcorn Talk

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS AUDIO EDITION – 03/12/2020

by Bob Tinsley

Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.

The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.  read article

What’s Not to Love About Port Townsend, Washington?

LB wants us all to know why of all the places in the world he could have lived, he and Gwen the Beautiful chose Port Townsend, WA, just across Puget Sound from Seattle.

This TVWriter™ minion gets it, for sure. Hell, the picture alone sells me:

A Washington author renovates a Port Townsend house, and her life
by Erica Bauermeister (via The Seattle Times)

Editor’s note: The following is an edited excerpt from the new book, “House Lessons: Renovating a Life,” © 2020 by Erica Bauermeister. All rights reserved. Excerpted by permission of Sasquatch Books. read article

DOCTOR WHO Series 12 Finale Explained

“Spoilers? Who cares about steenkin’ spoilers?”

We know, a lot of people do. Sometimes we here at TVWriter™ are among them. But not this time around. Because every single one of us slaving away for our Beloved Leader Larry Brody agrees that knowing the info in this essay by Kyle Anderson on nerdist.com richer.

Not only that, it also has made the entirety of our Doctor Who experience fuller and just plain more fun. Ignore this if you must, but enjoy it if you, erm, you know, mustn’t. read article

Bob Tinsley: The Road to ESCAPE!

by Bob Tinsley

In case you weren’t aware, on February 26 the first trailer for my space opera fiction podcast, ESCAPE!, went live on Anchor.fm and new episodes are being posted weekly.

The pilot for ESCAPE! won Second Place in the Drama/Action category of the 2019 People’s Pilot competition. read article