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When Showrunners Talk, Writers Should Listen

The showrunners talking today are Jimmy Fallon and Charlie Grandy, about NBC’s upcoming GUYS WITH KIDS. We think it sounds duller than the last show about guys with kids, so we looked forward to reading an opposing view:

Watch My Show: Guys With Kids‘ Jimmy Fallon and Charlie Grandy Answer Our Showrunner Survey – by Michael Schneider

For his leap into primetime as an executive producer, late night host Jimmy Fallon partnered up with his former Saturday Night Live colleagueCharlie Grandy (as well as Amy Ozols) to create the new NBC sitcom Guys With Kids. It’s a topic that Grandy (whose credits also include The Office and The Daily Show), the father of three little ones, knows well. The show stars Anthony Anderson, Zach Cregger and Jesse Bradford as thirtysomething guys adjusting to fatherhood. Fallon and Grandy explain why these Guys are dolls. read article

Peggy Bechko Writes More About Writing

From novelist Peggy Bechko’s uberhelpful blog:

Writer – Tell Your Readers Only What They Need To Know! – by Peggy Bechko (from Peggy’s blog)

As writers, it’s good for us to think a bit about how the brain works and what it’s really looking for in many things, but for us the important issue is what does it want from a story? read article

Naked Writer Dept: How Writers Risk Their Lives

One writer, anyway, and, yes, we consider the possible effects of what she’s doing to be life-threatening. (Non-writers may not agree but they’re wrong.)

Waitaminnit! She isn’t naked! Dayum!

Silvia Hartmann is The Naked Writer

DragonRising’s star author Silvia Hartmann (Energy EFT,Aromatherapy for Your Soul, Infinite Creativity) has launched a fascinating new project to connect with her readers in an exciting new way – and we need your help! read article

Not Inspector Spacetime AKA Not Doctor Who AKA Travis Richey’s First Episode is Up and Running

If you’re a COMMUNITY fan and/or a DOCTOR WHO fan, you’ll love this Travis Richey-created web series startlingly similar to the series within a series on the show. A series within a series that is, itself, startlingly similar to a certain 49+ year old BBC space/time traveling show.

And here’s a little “making of” video to go with the little video above: read article

John Ostrander Nails the Whole Learning to Write Thing

This is brilliant:

John Ostrander: How I Learned to Write – by John Ostrander (Comic Mix)

One of the pleasures of the Internet and of Facebook in particular is that sometimes old friends find you or you find them and you get a chance to re-establish old bonds. One such for me is David Downs who I knew in my Loyola University theater days. Recently, he was asking about my writing and about writing plays and I realized – by Gum! – there was a column in it. Thanks, David! read article