Kay Tuxford

Not wanting to turn into a bitter (or incarcerated) adult, and also a seasoned aficionado of sugar, I suffered DEEPLY from bag envy.

Consistently writing and producing your own work is the only thing you can control.

Because, yes, there is merit to writing what you know—but when you’re in the middle of something, you absolutely do not know it. It isn’t over yet.

In a world where female directors are scarce, this sisterhood and creative collective provides more momentum for all of them to make it to the mountain top. And to do it together.

My answer is a frustrating one, but it is an answer. You must give yourself agency over your work and your career. You must reach out to what’s in your means and take action: make things.

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about this world is that who you are and who people want you to be aren’t the same thing.

Our fields can be harsh, and the struggle is real, but that doesn’t have to be all we are.

Rewrite hell, I’ve come to understand, isn’t what someone does to you, but what you do to yourself as a writer.

It’s funny the power of saying it out loud had: “We’re going to make a feature film.” And the more we said it, the more we dared to take the next baby step. And the next.

But love does leave a mark. It makes a trail. You can follow it and revisit it, whenever you need it, and it will light a path leading you to your true voice.

We need stories, and we need stories like yours. And you must believe and trust in that to get people to donate.