It’s Christmas Eve, and I’m feeling sentimental. It could be the amount of wine flowing as part of my small families’ Christmas dinner (anyone who knows me, knows I am a wine snob. And I totally nailed the au jus, for the record). It could be the realization that I… read more →
Walking has always been a meditation for me, and I’ve logged many miles getting my steps in over the years. With a good pair of walking shoes, and an audiobook playing in my ears, it’s the one time during the day when I get to not think, focus on the… read more →
Back around 2006 or 2007, in my long-gone ScriptShark days when I ran that coverage service, I had written a short blogpost about pitching. Pitching, as a tool for presenting story, was only just gaining steam outside of the pro-writer community then. Yes, pitch fests have gained some popularity in… read more →
The other day I was talking to a client. Just for context, the client, while extremely talented, is, at this time, unrepped. Through Virtual Pitch Fest he was able to get a known production company interested in one of his screenplays. While there is no deal yet, there are talks… read more →
Here is something that came up in Screenwriters Support Group and with one of my coaching clients a couple of weeks ago: If you’re writing all the time, taking classes, working on your craft, getting notes, doing all those things they tell you to do to improve your craft… what… read more →
On most things, I find that there is wiggle room when it comes to screenwriting, breaking in and building a screenwriting or TV writing career. We break things down into two options: What’s probable (and by that, I mean difficult but achievable) and what’s possible (highly, highly unlikely but… you… read more →
As part of my job, I meet new writers regularly. While career coaching has allowed me to work with both professional and up-and-coming writers, on most weeks I will meet with at least a couple writers taking those early career steps as they thoughtfully navigate the emerging writer landscape. And… read more →
Emerging writers putting pen-to-paper or, more likely, fingers-to-keyboard, have faced a confusing, and largely conflicting challenge for some time: On one hand, just a little bit of research reveals that most screenplays and TV pilots from new and emerging writers don’t actually go on to sell, get set up or… read more →
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