Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #64 – “Farm Bliss”

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

Status Report from Newly Re-elected WGAW Prez David A. Goodman

LB’s NOTE: I’d say this covers just about everything re where the Writers Guild of America is now and where it – we – want to be in the immediate future.

September 20, 2019
Dear Members, read article

10 Most Viewed TVWriter™ Posts of the Week – Sept. 23, 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

Climate Strike Day

It’s time to walk our talk about a certain impending doom that way too many people are burying their heads in the sand about.

Today is Climate Strike Day, worldwide, and while it has nothing to do with TV or film writing, it has everything to do with Real Life. As the Ohio Sierra Club put it in a recent tweet: read article

Stephanie Bourbon Answers Your Novel Writing Career Questions

In this installment of her web series writing tips, Stephanie Bourbon answers all our novel writing career questions.

How does this help us as TV writers? Well, besides the personal satisfaction writing a novel can give (because there’s nobody hovering over you with second-guessing notes), there’s the little matter of how much money you can make if your book becomes a TV series or film. Not to mention what good little career launchers well-written novels can be. read article