Phil Lord, the Producer for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, talks to Byron about his script SHADE OF THE GRAPEFRUIT TREE and his 2021 Nicholl Fellowship win. I watched Byron write this script over the last year. So much of the script is based on his real life trauma it wasn’t easy to write. It was…
We follow the breadcrumbs. We can plan for tomorrow all we want but the present has a way of challenging those plans. When I started this blog several years ago I did not plan to be starting an international production company with someone from another country. I did not plan to meet a man who…
Many of us live with irrational fears (clowns, stage fright, spiders, etc.) They grab hold of us, paralyze us, and disturb our dreams. Some of us live with a different set of fears (the fear of sexual assault, the fear of violence, the fear of death, the fear of abandonment). Such fears characterize real-life…
We can’t see past the reflections Written and created by producers Selling lies from their silver screens Projecting fear and disharmony Turning lives into hollow screams They follow her and pick at her They antagonize her and berate her They feed her lines to use as hers Then they tell her she is brilliant And…
Writing Challenge: New Year’s Resolutions (Doompocalypse Redux) I have already packed 2012 into a trunk and stuck it somewhere in the furthest reaches of my mind. Maybe it was the loss of a dear friend, Rob, who I will forever miss. Maybe it was the other losses we endured; my beautiful friend lost her son, my…
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