+ updated January 21 , 2004
 Karyl's Daily Variety
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Women Directors 

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Karyl's on-line rants 
Free The Westerfield 12

Don't Take Your Daughters to Work Day   (DON'T EVEN GET OUT OF BED!)

INTERVIEWS w/ KARYL
re:
Mary Tyler Moore Show

Erma Bombeck/Doris Roberts

Being a Women Writer

Writing a Sitcom Pilot

WAY COOL LINKS
MaryTylerMooreShow
Karyl's 1st MTM episode
Erma Bombeck Museum
Writers Guild of America
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Costumes for Cave Play
Orfeo Opera Masks
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   SEE KARYL SPEAK !
WRITING FUNNY
 4 MONEY

in HOLLYWOOD

"I  Was Strong,  I Was Invincible, I Was Stupid"

March 10th, 2004
So Cal Cartoonists Society dinner.  San Diego, CA   (Miller is also a cartoonist.)
 SCCS-ONLINE.ORG

March 25th, 2004
Keynote, Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop.  University of Dayton, OH
ERMA BOMBECK WRITERS  WORKSHOP

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Sitcom School
America's Stupidest Spec Scripts
      Your perfect spec sitcom script is your only shot at becoming TV's next show running writer millionaire.  Yet many smart amateur  writers make the same stupid mistake.
     
Instead of writing a typical Frasier using only the Frasier characters, the naive newbee creates an  unusual outside character who drives the story.  This is NOT . . .
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Resume and Awards
The Cosby Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show,  Emmy Award for Lily Tomlin,  feature script - Kevin Costner for TIG/Warner Bros
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STORY 911!
Dear Karyl,
My spec movie script was going so great and then all of a sudden I got to page 60 and I hit a wall! What happened? I thought I'd try you before I tried Dr. Kevorkian. 
Desperate Writer in Detroit
Dear Desperate,
Don't panic. Experienced writers remember what they learned in the Boy Scouts : Be Prepared. Stop . . .
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Women Directors
from Daily Variety 
    All of us lucky little women and minorities got our annual 15 seconds of fame recently: The Directors Guild of America released its worse news yet 
for anybody but 26 year old white guys.
   Although we, your faithful Underdogs, usually come joined at the empty pocketbook; permit me to divide us into two groups...
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