The Age of A.I.nlightenment: How the Artificial Intelligence Boom is Changing the Arts
If everything around AI feels unsettling and sketchy, that’s because the market hasn’t decided what exactly to do with it yet and businesses are taking wild swings.
Consultants, Contests, and Coverage—Oh My! Sorting Out the Professional Script Reader Landscape
Sounds like you need a reader, friend! But just a quick glance at all the options out there makes it pretty obvious that what a “reader” does is much less clear.
The Orgasm Box: A New Universal Model for Storytelling
It’s time for a new model ... a model that truly captures the essence of every story; a model with guts and heart and sex appeal and bitchin’ VFX!
Dear Diary: A Return to Journaling
It was an act of opening my heart in rebellion against total social isolation. It began as a personal exercise, an uncensored lovefest only I would see.
The Myth of Meritocracy
It’s probably too much to ask for Hollywood to ever be a real meritocracy. Nowhere in society does there exist a “real” meritocracy. All we can do is try to make things better for ourselves and for each other ...
Single-Year Itch: 365 Days in Writing Exile
I decided to focus on the things I could control rather than treating my career like a blind gamble, because the house always wins.
Twitter is a Dog from Hell
The way Bukowski has become seated in modern culture likely has a lot more to do with the audience's perceptions than the work itself.
When We Get It Wrong
The artist’s response to pain is to counteract it with beauty—an urge to affirm life even as we are drowning. Sometimes we make magic. Sometimes we get it wrong.
Learning How to Bleed, or How Hemingway Tricked Us All into Living a BDSM Nightmare
Am I the only one who finds it a wee bit unhealthy we are expected to lay bare our most intimate struggles just to force a bunch of strangers to feel something?
Fail Better: What Samuel Beckett Can Teach Us About Quitting
He was never quite able to pin the magnificent, ethereal creature inside his head to paper, and that fact consumed him.
