EDITOR’S NOTE: TVWriter™ legendary Contributing Editor Emeritus Herbie J Pilato brings us some Christmas insight.
by Herbie J Pilato
They just don’t make ’em like they used to.
Tag: screenwriting
How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real
Everything we all need to know about the Father of Cyberspace.
by Joshua Rothman
Suppose you’ve been asked to write a science-fiction story. You might start by contemplating the future. You could research anticipated developments in science, technology, and society and ask how they will play out. Telepresence, mind-uploading, an aging population: an elderly couple live far from their daughter and grandchildren; one day, the pair knock on her door as robots. They’ve uploaded their minds to a cloud-based data bank and can now visit telepresently, forever. A philosophical question arises: What is a family when it never ends? A story flowers where prospective trends meet.
“We quit our jobs in NYC to bike across the country and relocate to L.A.”
Ready to make the move to L.A. and blast your showbiz career into orbit? It takes courage, dedication, and, most of the time, a helluva lot of $$$. Here’s how one married couple did it on the cheap.
by Mary Kearl
My great American road trip wasn’t by car — it was by bicycle, as in two wheels and all human-powered. Biking made the going much slower (and harder), but the savings and the rewards even greater.
Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #76 – “Starmaker”
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.
WGAW Prepares for Next Year’s Minimum Basic Agreement Negotiations
by TVWriter™ Press Service
A letter to the membership from the Honchos-In-Charge.
December 10, 2019
Dear Members,