Tag: screenwriting

A Few Words About the “Anti-Cord-Cutting Gang”

Will streaming replace TV broad-or-cable-casting? Should it? The battle over cord-cutting is just beginning, and it’s already overheating.  Some people say you can recognize desperate organizations by the lies they tell, but how do we spot the lies? Oh, right. They’re the ones who’ve been holding all the power and realize how quickly it’s slipping away.

NBC’s Latest Anti-Cord Cutting Story
by Luke Bouma

NBC just can’t seem to help but attack cord cutting. This week NBC published their 3rd anti-cord cutting story of the year all pushing the idea that cable TV is cheaper than cord cutting. read article

Why I Passed On Your Screenplay

A Hollywood pro steps up to tell us how the TV/Film writing biz really works. Our suggestion is that you read it carefully and relish the insight this knowledge gives you.

by Tennyson E. Stead

For almost 10 years, I worked as a development executive for Unified Pictures and Exodus Film Group. One of my chief sources of income over the last year has been writing script coverage, writing development notes, and in general parsing screenplays for writers and producers. My friends, I have read a LOT of screenplays. If you’re an undiscovered screenwriter with more than three our four scripts out there on the market, there’s a fair chance I’ve covered you at some point. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #68 – “Ch-Ch-Changes”

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

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – Oct. 21, 2019

Happy Monday morning everybody!

Hope your weekend has been a great one. Time now for TVWriter™’s latest look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the week ending yesterday. They are, in order: read article

Stephanie Bourbon on How Writers Can Find Their Creative Selves

What does it really mean to be true to yourself? For that matter, who the heck is your true self? Clearly, this is a tough question for everybody, but writers seem especially prone to engaging in the search.

Sit back and click, young Jedi, as Stephanie Bourbon steps forward to help guide you through the maze read article