# Read

Sounds like you need a reader, friend! But just a quick glance at all the options out there makes it pretty obvious that what a “reader” does is much less clear.

A screenplay isn’t some mystical thing with a bazillion components. It’s something most writers can master, if you break it down to its simplest, most basic elements ...

There's a certain kind of suspense and mystery to the forests, heavy rain clouds, and grey skies that lends itself to the thriller genre; which I love the most.

By the 90s, an increasing number of these women were finally gaining some prominence in Hollywood.

Such brevity is all but demanded in scripts today, all the better to help readers breeze through the script, right?

... the “big break” often comes in the form of smaller, sometimes imperceptible “micro breaks.” It’s a mistake to overlook those.

In proportion to every dolphin that she earned as a pet in Roblox, she produced one less poem, song, or picture in real life.

I think I lost about ten pounds, but I made it out feeling invincible and have never wanted to do anything else in life since.

I guess I'm a huge Martin McDonagh fan now?

" ... it was also no coincidence that when the big studios decided to unionize in the 1920s, most of those labor unions didn't allow female members."

If he wasn’t an addict and a gambler, there could never have been the triumphs. But even more than that—he was in love with two women at once—and yes, I could have played that down, but I found that fascinating and something that was real and messy and complicated and worth exploring.

Programs like ChatGPT ... according to Noam Chomsky and others, are actually distracting us from the true goal of creating a technology that thinks.

Do you give yourself "the talk"—that you're wasting your time, that you'll never be good enough, that your script will embarrass you, that you'll disappoint the people who read it?

These days, anyone with a cell phone and a TikTok account can be a celebrity, so maybe our adoration of movie stars, recording artists, and athletes are going to suffer when fame seems so accessible.

The fact that writing was seen as "women's work," ironically created a window in which many women forged influential careers in the industry and were able to quickly expand into directing, producing, and executive roles.