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Education and inspiration from contributors on the front lines of the arts.

What to Watch When Your Heart is Broken

What to Watch When Your Heart is Broken

... it’s important to consider what we mentally need when our hearts are broken.

# Read # The Creative Mind
4 min read

Artist Marina Billinghurst on Authoring Her First Book

Artist Marina Billinghurst on Authoring Her First Book

... you never know who’s going to be inspired by the art that you create. The art you create, creates art.

# Read # The Business of Art
8 min read

Why Wicked Works

Why Wicked Works

Where Chu was truly brilliant as a director was in his innate understanding of the intimacy of film.

# Read # Style & Substance
6 min read

Writing Season: Use the End of the Year to Hit the Finish Line

Writing Season: Use the End of the Year to Hit the Finish Line

Oh no. We have to write during the holidays, don’t we? Cue the angry stares and pitchforks from the murderous writing mob.

# Read # The Creative Mind
4 min read

Below the Line: Editor and Actor Max Goldblatt

Below the Line: Editor and Actor Max Goldblatt

Those are the victories as an editor, when you get away with something that an audience would never suspect.

# Read # Interviews # The Business of Art
11 min read

Y.A. Kafka: Finding Agency in Childhood Trauma Narratives

Y.A. Kafka: Finding Agency in Childhood Trauma Narratives

... our culture’s childhood trauma stories are not private anomalies but common societal failures that implicate all of us.

# Read # The Creative Mind
7 min read

To avoid discrimination in Hollywood, I had a secret baby. It didn’t work. Here’s what did …

To avoid discrimination in Hollywood, I had a secret baby. It didn’t work. Here’s what did …

What had suddenly seemed like the perfect way to not ruin my career made me now feel insane. I had to find a way out.

# Read # The Business of Art # The Creative Mind
5 min read

The Exodus

The Exodus

Consider this my Emergency Service Announcement for Writers. Take it, leave it, or tell me to piss off, but someone needs to say it.

# Read # The Creative Mind # The District
6 min read

Rip Off the Plot Armor

Rip Off the Plot Armor

What happens if you protect your characters from anything bad that could ever happen to them?

# Read # Style & Substance
9 min read

How I Prepared to Write My First Novel

How I Prepared to Write My First Novel

The tough part when starting out is figuring out what kind of preparation will turn into luck when the right opportunity comes along.

# Read # Style & Substance
6 min read

10 Reasons People Don't Go to the Movies (Looking at You, AMC)

10 Reasons People Don't Go to the Movies (Looking at You, AMC)

AMC, like it or not, stands as the poster child for all the tin-eared thinking that movie theaters are putting out these days ...

# Read # The Business of Art
8 min read

Generals: Dating in the Industry

Generals: Dating in the Industry

... now you have to meet this person—and not just meet them, but impress them so much that they’ll want to give you work now or in the future.

# Read # The Business of Art
6 min read

Below the Line: Camera & Steadicam Operator, Rochelle T.A. Brown

Below the Line: Camera & Steadicam Operator, Rochelle T.A. Brown

I’m not impatient when there is no need to be impatient. It helps me to have more realistic expectations.

# Read # Interviews # The Business of Art
12 min read

A Workshop on Emotion

A Workshop on Emotion

Emotion is what makes stories memorable. It's the special sauce that makes viewers come back again and again.

# Read # Style & Substance
11 min read

The Auteur Theory: Filmmaker Jim Towns

The Auteur Theory: Filmmaker Jim Towns

... every DVD I own has director’s commentary that I probably listened to at least once. That was my film school.

# Read # Interviews
14 min read
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