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It's been all kinds of responses, but that's why I had that little pebble in my shoe—we don't talk about mental health as much as we can, or normalize it.

I’m willing to bet that if all of you made your heroes more like Forrest Gump, your scripts would be much better for it.

... the world shines a light on success stories but doesn’t always highlight the struggle to get to that success, or the blatant truth of failure.

Everything I loved about the process evaporated, replaced by bone-aching exhaustion that induced a mixture of nausea and the constant threat of tears.

The soul under that stone has no name. At least not one anyone remembers.

How does one not only determine when a project is ready for circulation but also when YOU ready to step out into the chaos that is the film & TV industry?

So many of you seem to be making the exact same mistakes with your writing. And from my vantage point, they're all easily fixable.

Is it fear that I can’t do it anymore? That I overpromise results and then freeze in fear that I can’t fulfill that promise?

... that amazing rep you have? They’re out. It’s not you, it’s them. What now?

Shame is, in many ways, like that gun being held on a crowd. Everyone can relate.

... the thing about screenwriting that's interesting is that everybody wants to talk about what you're doing, like, four years after you did it.

You thought writing a screenplay was hard?

It’s great to have big dreams, but we need little dreams along the way ...

Shows trying to tickle our funny bones have become so prolific that we have started to collectively yawn—it takes a lot more to stand out.

These ideas haunt me and the only way to get them out is to put them down.