Are You a VENTURE BROTHERS Fan?

…The show’s creator is hoping this will seal the deal:

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Venture Bros. Season 5 Update with Teaser Images by Jackson Publick read article

10 Tips About Basic Writing Competency

We first read this title as “10 Tips About Basic Writing Complacency,” but we’re glad we were wrong cuz where we’re at, which is the exact opposite of feeling complacent, we’ll get a hella lot more out of learning about writing competency.

competency leads to success

by Mark Nichol (DailyWritingTips.Com) read article

Self-Compassion is More Important to Success than Self-Esteem

Uh-oh. This one hits us a little too close to home:

mixed messages

by Alan Henry (Lifehacker.Com) read article

Love & Money Dept – TV Writing Deals for 1/13/13

Latest News About Writers Who Are Doing Better Than We Are

  •  Shepard Boucher (MEN AT WORK) has written an unnamed comedy pilot for Fox TV which is being shopped around with Sarah Michelle Gellar attached as the star. (Wonder if Boucher has been paid anything yet because normally companies only spend a network’s money and not their own.)
  • Emily Spivey, creator of NBC’s sitcom UP ALL NIGHT has left the show. (No replacement has been named, so get those credit lists and spec sitcoms ready, gang.)
  • Cher (yeah, that Cher) & Ron Zimmerman (CHARLES IN CHARGE) are teaming up to write a pilot for Logo about life in ’60s Hollywood. (Yes, he’s her BF. But she’s really going to do a lot of writing on this project. Rilly.)
  • Liz Heldens & Peter Elkoff (both from DECEPTION) are writing/running CAMP, a drama about , well, summer camp. (The press release calls it a drama but also compares the show to MEATBALLS and DAZED AND CONFUSED, which means that somebody else here must also be pretty damn dazed and confused, don’tcha think?)
  • Agnes Nixon (ALL MY CHILDREN & ONE LIFE TO LIVE creator) is aboard for The Online Network’s web series versions of both shows as a consultant. (Which means the shows might actually get made after all. Maybe. Um, on second thought it probably doesn’t mean anything at all. Sorry.)