Tag: screenwriting

Top Views on TVWriter™ for the Month of September 2021 + Other Matters

Hi Selena! Does this mean you love us? (Of course it does.)

by Larry Brody

Good morning! Welcome to another new month at TVWriter™.

Before we get to the Top Views, I’d like to share a few things. As of this writing, yours truly LB is  only two months shy of my 77th birthday, and I’ve found myself evaluating my work and my life and all the things human beings end up evaluating when they face the fact that, “Hey! I’m getting older!”

I won’t bore you with the process (although truth to tell, I did find it fascinating), but here are some of the results of all that self-absorption…I mean self-discovery: read article

LB: Why Whatever You Write Needs That Final Polish…

by Larry Brody

…Um, mainly because that last once-over almost inevitably makes what you’ve written better.

How? Why? I won’t waste your with details here because you can find them on justpublishingadvice.com, a site I regard highly, and where I saw the article below, correctly titled: read article

How to Get Your TV Show Idea on the Air #9

by Larry Brody

The ninth (or maybe not because I could have miscounted) in a series of videos about what is for all practical purposes the most important thing to know in showbiz: How to sell your idea, your script, and yourself.

This is serious business indeed, but the process also is filled with fun and, yes, love.  So please sit back and click to learn, enjoy, and maybe even find your TV show Destiny by knowing more about WHAT EXECUTIVES WANT TO SEE IN A TV SERIES PITCH.

MORE TO COME

LB: Now THIS is a Healthy Young Writer

by Larry Brody

If I had my career to do all over again knowing what I know now, instead of the single-minded determination (AKA self-aggrandizing aggression that a few people may have noticed at one point or another as I pushed myself roward), I would do everything in my power to follow the example of the very young lady below.

Thanks for the life lesson, Rex Morgan, M.D. Where were you when I was 8 years old? read article

munchman: “Brand story? Brand story? What the goddamn hell…?

by munchman

Yer friendly neighborhood munchamambo is here to tell you, “I give up!”

Yrs trly has read this post about why we all need to have (write? draw? tell over the campfire?) something called a “brand story” three times and I’m still clueless about what the fuck it’s talking about. read article