7 Principles For Your Artistic Toolkit
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 [...]
How to Get Staffed on a TV Show
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 [...]
Good News for Writers!
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. [...]
Writers’ Room Lessons
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 [...]
I’m Writing My TV Script Right NOW!
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 [...]
Zoom Goes the Writers’ Room
The conversations I’m having these days about TV writing are different from the conversations I was having before the pandemic. People outside the industry are asking me how will things [...]
Turbo Charged Meeting Prep
One of the cornerstones of professional TV writing is meetings. It’s ironic, in a way, because part of what makes us solid writers is our ability to invent things alone. [...]
Only Hope
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.” [...]
THIS is Your Year!
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 [...]
