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Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #121 “The Horse Lady Meets–Bambi?”

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 – November 9, 2020

Good morning! Welcome to another new week at TVWriter™, starting with a look at our most popular blog posts and resource pages during the last 7 days.

They are, in order: read article

‘The Last of Us 2’ is ‘The Last Jedi’ of gaming

How To Divide A Fanbase – The Last of Us 2
by The Closer Look YouTube Channel

The Good News: You have the most passionate fans in gaming. The Not So Good News: They hate what you’ve done. You thought putting together a TV show was hard? Take a “closer look” at this video about the saga of The Last of Us Part 2.

‘P’s in a Pod’ & the Making of a TV Show

This pilot for the YouTube series P’s in a Pod is so damn cute it makes Felicia Day’s masterpiece The Guild look like The Watchmen. Yes, that’s a recommendation.

And here’s a charming article about the making of P’s in a Pod,  which will make you wish you were working on the show. For reals: read article

The Surprising Secrets Hidden in Writers’ First Drafts

TV and film writers sometimes forget that we aren’t the only ones who write draft after draft in our quest for perfection (as opposed to when we write draft after draft to ruin what we’ve written so a stubborn, unappreciative producer will pay our fee). Even the best novelists do the same thing. Studying the various drafts is one of the best ways to learn the craft. Cases in point:

by Hephzibah Anderson

Writers who find themselves mired in procrastination would do well to take a page from Marcel Proust’s most famous book. Specifically, a page from In Search of Lost Time in manuscript form. Nothing more powerfully illustrates the truth of that creative-writing-class maxim, ‘writing is rewriting’, than the liberally crossed-out, lavishly annotated, occasionally doodled-upon notebooks in which Proust composed his seminal, seven-volume text. read article