This should be required reading for everybody who ever wants to be involved with creating a television series. Which should mean, yeppers, everybody who comes to TVWriter™:
by John Perich
Tag: writing tips
30 Problem Words and Phrases
DailyWritingTips.Com strikes again. We discovered that TVWriter™ writers regularly make 15 out of these 30 errors. How about you?
by Mark Nicol
LB: “The Only Writers Who Haven’t Sold Out are the Ones Who Haven’t Been Asked”
Nope, I’m not quoting myself. The above are just a few words spoken to me by Norman Mailer back in the day. (I.e., when he was alive and holding court in Manhattan and I, as a young writer, had just been introduced to him by – I kid you not – an NYPD detective. (No, not one who’d ever arrested him…yet.)
Mailer’s words to me come to mind because of this invigorating article from one of my favorite sites, io9.Com. I like io9 a lot. (Mostly because from time to time they mention me and seem to like me too. Just call me the Sally Field of TV writing.)
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.
by Mark Nichol (DailyWritingTips.Com)
Peggy Bechko: Tax Time? Already? Tax Tips for Writers
by Peggy Bechko
2012 is gone
On to
2013!
Okay, I made it through the end of the year when I got my new computer. Yes, I actually did the techie thing (I am no techie if you’ll remember) and got the thing up and running. My brain felt like a marshmallow after, but I guess that’s par for the course from what I hear from IT people. Even downloaded printer drivers for the new Windows 8 version, installed and actually have it printing.