A Primer on Giving (and Receiving) Notes
A note is not a statement of enjoyment or dislike. A note is NOT your opinion.
When Your Brain Just Can't "Write Everyday"
"One of the key challenges of ADHD is task initiation. If I could do task initiation, if I could start the thing, it wouldn’t be a challenge, hence the advice to just 'initiate the task' is not helpful."
You're Never Ready to Make a Movie, So Make One
Learning to trust and welcome other people's help is just another thing you'll pick up as you all struggle forward together ... You’ll all be afraid together, and you’ll all improve together along the journey.
The Great Reframe—How to Survive and Thrive Through Any Difficulty
The armor I’d built around me was pristine and impenetrable. It was also horribly lonely, and for a long time it helped me survive, but it had outlived its usefulness.
After Conquering Hollywood, Gary Goldstein Had a Novel Idea
“As an author [of a book], you have to be the camera. A script gets interpreted, but in a book, the words have to do all the work.”
I Can’t Afford Your Sandwich, But I’ll Post It On Insta
“It’s just a quick photo shoot,” they say. “It’s just a quick script.” ... I say it’s just a quick sandwich. And you pay for sandwiches.
Tough Choices and Following Your Dreams: Experiencing Siân Heder’s CODA
A significant challenge for many writers can be to center a story within a community that they, themselves, are not a part of. Siân Heder acknowledges the challenge and how she navigated it.
How to Engage More Critically With Work We Love From Faves That are Problematic
More than one thing can be true at once: you can deeply love and appreciate a piece of art, and deeply disagree with its creator or its impact.
Nyx Horror Collective Co-Founders Celebrate Women Writing Horror in 60-Second Bites
"Our philosophy is you can't know the light without first knowing the dark."
Magic vs. Reality
Settle down and focus on the task at hand, which is, as it always should be: Writing the best story you can. Everything to come is not your problem. Not yet, anyway, and not unless you’re lucky.
Spaceman
I absorbed nothing, except her last words as she stepped into their car: “Children are easy to lie to. You’re smarter than most of them.”
A Few Things Coaching Baseball Taught Me About Writing
Don’t worry about being good enough. You are good enough. Just do that thing. Then do it again even better next time.
How Director Nick Hamm Found John DeLorean’s Story in Driven
Nick Hamm's Driven is a fast-paced, comedic crime thriller of a bromance gone wrong between John DeLorean, played by Lee Pace, and Jim Hoffman, played by Jason Sudeikis.
The Making of "The MisEducation of Bindu" - Part 1
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.
Beware the Temptations of Tinsel Town
Arguably, if the work isn’t its own reward, you’ve not chosen your career wisely, no matter what the profession.
