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✒️ Monthly Arts Seminar – October 2026
A space for StoryTalkers to discuss (with me and each other) the arts, craft and business, and the challenges they’re facing on their creative journeys
Welcome to October’s “arts seminar” from 5AM StoryTalk! Paid supporters of this newslet...
5AM CoffeeTalk: October 2026
So, StoryTalkers, how did your September turn out? On my end, I don’t really know how to process the fact that I’ve had three months in a row that were great except for the general economic anxiety that plagues all artists and the existenti...
Hollywood Survival Guide for Screenwriters - Part 2
Source: Photo by Jametlene Reskp, Unsplash
Twenty-one years ago, I arrived in Hollywood. Within five years, I had a TV series I created on the air and I’d sold feature scripts to most of the major studios. That’s when things started to go...
💬 Weekly Question: Is Taylor Swift the ‘apotheosis of mediocrity’?
This week’s question from 5AM StoryTalk is going to inspire a lot of debate, I think. It’s also going to require a lot of you to spend some time exercising your critical thinking skills alongside your “how would I say this if I didn’t grow...
35 Scripts with Unreliable Narrators (and Narratives) to Download and Study
A curated collection of screenplays where audiences can’t trust what’s happening on screen - and love the films made even more because of it.
Most screenplays are very trustworthy, meaning the protagonist/s, the narrative, and even the sto...
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Screenwriter (creator, NBC/Sky's DRACULA) | Novelist (PSALMS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD) | Host of 5AM STORYTALK podcast. Storytelling craft deep dives, emphasis on film/TV, in between trying to make sense of the 21st century through the lens of art.
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