Bloody good advice from a Hollywood screenwriter: For screenwriters, authors, and creators who are tired of going it alone and want a professional space to work.
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What Your First 10 Pages Are Really Saying About You
Jesus, I’ve read a lot of scripts. Stacks. Piles. Scripts delivered by messenger back when ‘messenger’ was an angry dude named Kyle who drove across LA with boxes filled with scripts sliding around the back seat of his ‘92 Corolla.
Now th...
It Was Never About Real Estate
Anyone who knows me knows I’ve wanted a place of my own for my entire life. I grew up as a Military Brat, moving from house to city to state to country every couple of years. Even post-college, through my twenties, thirties, and forties, I...
First your pitch, then your first 10 pages
Oh, hello. I’ve noticed writers tend to struggle in two places. They care about their script but can’t talk about it in a compelling way, or the script takes too long to show us why we should care.
Both problems are fixable.
So over the n...
Crafting Your Way To Armageddon
Yes, I made this and took a picture of it in 2020. We cope the best we can.
NOTE: This is a throwback to Aug. 2020 during quarantine. It was a very bad year. It’s taken years to get over that year…
When in the grip of a global pandemi...
Your Life: A Movie in Three Acts
I blame Aristotle and his contemporary, Syd Field, who taught story structure and underlying theme. I blame them for taking the fun and wide-eyed wonder out of watching a film in the way I once did, unencumbered by theory. When you learn pl...
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Two-time Emmy Award-losing screenwriter. I've written on TV shows you love and now help writers finish those g.d. scripts. Why am I so heroically selfless? Because the world needs your voice now more than ever.
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