Not about TV writing per se, but so what? Dick Tracy is one of my favorite comic strips. I’ve read it for over 70 of its 90 years, including a couple of years before I could actually read.
I don’t think it was Tracy or the violence of the strip that caught my toddler interest but the bizarre look of the members of the Rogues Gallery. I mean, who can resist this guy, for crying out loud?
…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:
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?
Speaking of newspaper headlines, LATimes.Com this morning demonstrates the difference between the Big Orange and the Big Apple with a timely article about smoking weed during the pandemic.
The article is long and descriptive, but the first four words of the headline, which I have cleverly hidden until now, tell us everything we need to know:
Did you read that headline, gang? It’s the question of the day over at NYTimes.Com, and the good news is that they also have an answer:
The show’s new audience is also seeing something different in it: a parable about a country in terminal decline.
Take a good look at that second to last word. “Terminal.”