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LB: Why Go to Film School…

…When articles like these are available on our beloved interwebs?

  1. https://filmlifestyle.com/what-is-a-writers-room/
  2. https://filmlifestyle.com/how-to-make-a-short-film-2/
  3. https://filmlifestyle.com/different-types-of-shots/
  4. https://filmlifestyle.com/film-financing-101/
  5. https://filmlifestyle.com/starting-an-animation-company/
  6. https://filmlifestyle.com/setting-up-a-video-production-company/

And these are only some of the informative-as-hell articles I found at FilmmakingLifestyle.Com in the last couple of weeks.

UPDATE FROM LB: In the last few days, the number of articles on Filmmaking Lifestyle has doubled, covering every topic I can think of. Well, actually more than I have been able to think of. These folks are busy! read article

LB: Speaking of Copyright…

by Larry Brody

Breathes there a creator so rare that they disagree with this masterful reaction by Wiley Miller to recent events in the copyright world?

It takes a most admirable amount of chutzpah to thumb your nose at Walt Disney. read article

Larry Brody: Live! From Paradise! #180 – “Out of Joint”

Where do I go from here?

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

LB: “Retirement Blues?”

by Larry Brody

I’m thinking that the heading on this post could also apply to this cartoon by Wiley:

Don’t get me wrong. It doesn’t apply to me, oh no, no. read article

Literary Devices Every Writer Should Know

Another infographic from one of my favorite sources,  Grammarcheck.Net boss lady Jennifer Frost. This time around it’s all about my high school English teacher’s favorite subject – literary devices.

Who knows? Maybe I might have understood what he was talking about if he’d illustrated it like this.

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