Creative Survival

I love what I do. I enjoy being able to create worlds and populate them with characters. I have fun crafting dialogue, adding humor, mining tension. It’s fun to write [...]

It’s that time of year – for broadcast shows, anyway. Pilots are being shot all over the world, generated by Hollywood writers who are hopeful that their project will end [...]

The industry can be a funny. It’s full of ups and downs - and often, writers zero in on the downs. They zip through the ups and forget to celebrate. [...]

I was talking with a fellow TV writer the other day about her experience in her writers’ room. She was navigating some challenges and was looking for advice. We had [...]

This week, I’m writing a script for Stargirl, the TV series I have the pleasure to work on. In creating my episode, I work in some very specific ways. Chances [...]

Often when I’m around a group of writers it doesn’t take long before one of them starts to complain. “My agent won’t call me.” “The producer didn’t like my script.” [...]

It's a New Year and time to make some choices. I don’t mean this to sound dire, but it does pertain to the rest of your life. Ok, maybe just [...]

At this point in my TV writing career I feel fortunate to have an attorney on my “team”. He deals with contracts for me. Most recently those contracts are for [...]

I got my first agent (as an actor) when I was a senior in high school. I was riding the bus to school with a girl who studied at a performing arts [...]