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She floats on her back in a stream, drowned and beautiful. If she leaped from the side of a ferry, we’ll never know. Snuffed seven days—

Erica Davis spills the beans on the quick and dirty hacks that help her focus when writing.

I fought back in my own little ways, like dressing as the macabre Angel of Death for “Bible Character Day.”

It’s gonna take far more than a “polish” to hammer this pile of steaming vomit into any kind of recognizable shape.

Creating art takes time. With every additional page, the production schedule gets longer. And the longer it takes to produce, the longer it will be before you can bring your project to market.

Everything is madness, and we can’t help you anymore.

We can’t recognize escapism any more when hard truths are staring back at us every morning in the mirror.

Can you fully unlock your imagination if your mind is obsessed with success?

I’m excited for you, believe me, but hold up a second here and let’s have a little talk.

I spent weeks, each time making all these changes in the desperate hope that one of these “artists” he was pitching it to would buy it.

During one pitch, we were asked if our screenplay was based on a graphic novel. The answer was no, but it had crossed our minds to adapt it in the opposite direction.

If you’re a filmmaker, you’re either creating content or over in the corner crying.

Yes, people like being treated like people.

At his age, he had plenty of wisdom to draw upon and apply to the characters he was auditioning to play.

Did you catch that? “Mediocrity is … unacceptable.” And if this were the case, or the perception in 1873, how much more does this apply today?