The death knell of a writer is to become bored, or even worse, blocked. I’ve avoided this plague by keeping myself challenged and engaged in different mediums.

"Animation is so close to the language of dreams, and the language of dreams is so close to the language of mythology."

In one home I was raised by Nintendo, in the other Comedy Central, MTV, and Conan.

Ultimately, my goal was to connect with who I was ten years ago, and show him that gay nobodies can do epic things.

When I open the pages, I am no longer me. It is the opposite of social media. And it takes practice to read, and to write as though you have read.

I’m from a place where tree roots are shallow ...

I know what I know, and what I know is that I predicted the Kremlin’s actions and Ukraine’s subsequent eruptions before they happened.

Eight minutes of movie, zero spoken lines, and I still can barely write about it without crying.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guy Nattiv sat down with LA Screenwriter’s John Bucher to discuss the process that lead to his film getting made as well as his own creative practice.

“We’ve been through, like, nine rounds of notes on this thing. I’m starting to feel like this idea simply isn’t gonna work, no matter how hard I try.”

Now I’m driven to write books that will draw in reluctant readers, so they can escape into books like I used to do.

We don’t need to pursue things we once wanted just because we once wanted them. We don’t need to hang out with assholes just because we randomly met them.

Well, that’s the most difficult part of the story to address. There was something so dehumanizing about the whole enterprise.

Being bad is a state of mind, and in the 1970s, being bad was very, very good.

In giving her readers a chance to connect with her, Bren McClain has received the biggest reward of publication: the chance to connect with them.