Best practices are not to entirely depend on your friends and family but for your first campaign or two, it’s largely unavoidable. So what can you do if your starting “crowd” is broke?

Coming-of-age stories have long been a staple of storytelling. Since the early days of film and television, audiences have enjoyed watching characters that mature before our very eyes.

Luxor tells the story of a British aid worker taking a hiatus in the ancient Egyptian city, where she bumps into a former lover, Sultan, an archeologist.

An interview with James Schamus, the writer of the "Indignation," on his writing process, screenplays that aren’t over-written, and the violence of adapting great books.

Diana Henriques is an award-winning writer for The New York Times. Her book, The Wizard of Lies, is the basis for HBO’s Emmy-nominated project by the same name.

In hindsight, it’s easier to find the meaning of suffering because you are removed from the cloudiness that suffering itself can cause.

Harrison Ford's role, playing the legendary John Thornton from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, may be his most personal project to date.

Collection of illustrations by designer Antissima, created for Pipeline Artists.

Collection of illustrations by designer Graham Sisk, created for Pipeline Artists.

Collection of illustrations by designer, screenwriter, and all-around multi-hyphenate creative Nathan Patton, created for Pipeline Artists.

Collection of illustrations by designer and illustrator Emily Barnes, created for Pipeline Artists.

I was busy imagining other worlds where gravity was different and people grew differently. I was inventing stories in these other realms. It wasn’t science I loved—it was science-fiction.

My whole process of writing the story was just imagining, what kind of person would actually do this? And what kind of person would pay for this?

If I were going into a meeting with a potential agent ... I’d try to be familiar with every title the company has recently produced, and learn as much as I can from social media about anyone who I know will be in the meeting.

It was really therapeutic to have something I could throw myself completely into and take my mind off of whatever was giving me stress during day-to-day life.