I'm still convinced this doesn't actually exist and was a nightmare I had after watching too many movies set in New York.

... one of the most worrisome fears for writers is that they could end up penning something that damages ‘the brand.’

I was a Hollywood assistant for almost ten years ... let’s go ahead and get the basic stuff out of the way.

Established IP is always the perfect place for film and TV producers to find gems that need to be adapted for the screen.

Drawing didn’t heal me. Risk taking did.

I think, for the first time, I bled in the Goldilocks Zone.

Sadness is inherent to every seed. When the flowers come, they'll be for graves or grace. No one knows.

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.

A screenplay isn’t some mystical thing with a bazillion components. It’s something most writers can master, if you break it down to its simplest, most basic elements ...

There's a certain kind of suspense and mystery to the forests, heavy rain clouds, and grey skies that lends itself to the thriller genre; which I love the most.

By the 90s, an increasing number of these women were finally gaining some prominence in Hollywood.

Such brevity is all but demanded in scripts today, all the better to help readers breeze through the script, right?

... the “big break” often comes in the form of smaller, sometimes imperceptible “micro breaks.” It’s a mistake to overlook those.

In proportion to every dolphin that she earned as a pet in Roblox, she produced one less poem, song, or picture in real life.

I think I lost about ten pounds, but I made it out feeling invincible and have never wanted to do anything else in life since.