I knew about 12 pt. Courier font, hiding exposition, keeping descriptions short ... but I had no idea how to write a middle grade memoir.

“Doing good research” means doing more than parroting Twitter talking heads and Washington Post articles in a political drama.

Your art is whatever you make or do in order to process the world and the incomprehensible experience of being alive in it. That's why it feels like work and also why it feels necessary.

From what I’ve experienced over the past year and some change, I believe screenwriting is a team sport.

Women have influenced music throughout history—if they’re excluded from the narrative, then we will never have a true understanding of humanity’s current place in the world.

This is a copycat industry—if something works, you can all but guarantee someone else is going to be right on your heels with the follow-up.

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

When your screenplay finally finds a buyer, you'll need legal advice. Ken Aguado shares insights into the legal agreements every screenwriter must know.

I’ve discovered that while an agent’s primary job is to sell books, their most important job is to keep their clients writing when we try to talk ourselves out of it.

I don’t know if she ever approved of me for who I truly was.

Being an artist in the U.S. means never having to say you’re sorry but always feeling guilty anyway.

While propaganda can be perpetuated by anyone, regardless of their societal position, censorship is a unique tool that can only be used by those in positions of power.

Being uncaged or unencumbered isn’t really freedom in writing, it’s absurdity.

last summer when you called ...

Too many writers try to reinvent the narrative formula. They think we, as readers, are bored with well-executed, simple stories. Well, let me tell you this, y’all: we ain’t.