Creativity and the Educational System: Contradiction in Terms?

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Do schools help creativity or hinder it? If they don’t, what can we do to fix that? If they do, what can we do to make them help even more?

We’ll ‘fess up to the fact that TVWriter™ has absolutely no clue about how to answer those questions from anything other than personal/anecdotal evidence. For our staff, that evidence is overwhelming: All of the regular TVWriter™ minions feel that their kindergarten thru high school educations worked against their ability to create, especially as writers. But, hey, your experience, like your gas mileage, may vary. read article

Peggy Bechko: Writer Techie?

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Visit Peggy’s Blog!

Some authors actually are ‘techies’ others are, well, not.

I fall into the second catagory.

Why am I telling you this? read article

The Hudsonian Sees 1600 PENN

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Presidential Shenanigans at 1600 PENN

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NBC Thursdays has a new address: 1600 Penn.

The new comedy from Josh Gad, Jon Lovett, and Jason Winer is a cross between New Girl, Modern Family, and the Obamas. You know, if they were white and had a reality show or something. read article

The 10 Most Popular (& Unpopular) Posts on TVWriter™ in 2012 Were…

Because you asked for it.

Well, really, you didn’t, but we’re sure you would have if you’d thought of it.

Anyway, here we go, the 10 most popular articles on TVWriter™ since we went to our current format June 1st. “Look on our works, ye mighty, and,” erm, “despair?” read article

Peer Productions: PUPPET DREAMS Episode 3

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Yeppers, the 3rd exciting tale of Neil Patrick Harris’s puppet fetish. (Unless we missed one. Gulp.)