What John Ridley Taught Me
Last week, I got notes from ABC studios and the TV network on my script for American Crime. It's the last step in a process of brainstorming, discussing, outlining, rewriting, [...]
Create Your New Season
I spent a chunk of the summer teaching at the UCLA Extension school, in addition to keeping up with my writing duties on ABC's American Crime. The class: Story Analysis for Film & [...]
How I Got to the Emmys
I had an incredible time when I went to The Creative Arts Emmys. I went with Tracie Thoms, the amazing lead of my web series, SEND ME. She was nominated [...]
Love the dream. Screw the dream.
Summer has gone quickly. It seems that way to me. I've been juggling several things lately: among them my script for American Crime, grading papers for a class I'm teaching, coaching [...]
Say YES!
There's this thing you do - or probably do - that is very common. (People have been coming to me with this thing.) It's that moment when you're waist deep [...]
Stop! You’re Moving Too Fast!
It's no mystery that our minds move the way they do. We live in the age of the internet. We have smartphones and on-demand TV. We are socialized to expect everything [...]
Get Some Rest!
My clients know I'm big on celebration. I talk about it all the time, frequently tossing out the question "What have you done to celebrate?" I'm a firm believer in stepping into [...]
Write Your Future!
Sound like magic, right? It's not. It's the way things work. I've always believed that storytelling has the power to change the world. In scripts, we tell stories that can [...]
Your Writing is Bad
Sometimes it is. It happens to all of us. Of course that means that sometimes it's good. But it's the bad moments you remember - the ones when you're not [...]
