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"So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters, and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say."
~ Virgina Woolf Behind the Scenes
INT. LIVING ROOM 1979 - DAY
Nick, Nora and their dog Asta are solving a crime in black and white in one of the Thin Man movies from the 30s and 40s that they show on TV all the time. My mom and I are watching from our regular positions on the couch, laughing at the kind of playful, witty banter between a married couple that, at just 7 years old, I believe can really exist.
EXT. DRIVE-IN MOVIE 1980 - NIGHT
Sissy Spacek is singing a Loretta Lynn song 50 feet high in Coalminer's Daughter, her voice blasting through the static-y speaker by the car. I'm in back with my brother, my parents in front, my first drive-in movie and the only movie I remember all four of us going to as family.
INT. MOVIE THEATER 1982 - DAY
E.T. is eating the path of Reese's Pieces that Elliot is leaving for him in the woods. I'm watching with my brother and mother in my cold, uncomfortable seat, tossing back handfuls from my own bag of what's now my favorite candy. It's just part of the ritual, this being the eighth time we've gone to the movies to see E.T.
INT. BEDROOM 1983 - NIGHT
Linda Blair's head is spinning in The Exorcist on the TV in my room, probably the only place where my brother and I, just 6 and 11 respectively, can get away with watching it. That is until we run out of the room screaming with terrorized laughter, each of us brandishing Lincoln Logs in the shape of a cross.
INT. OFFICE 2006 - NIGHT
Sixty pages in the life of a woman fly by on my computer screen with one continuous stroke of the page down key. Halfway through the movie, my main character's life stops on the ominous empty space below her name. I pick up my slinky and shuffle it back and forth between my hands - a writing tool second only to my computer in situations like this - keeping my impatient hands busy as I listen for the dialogue my character has been promising to say for days.
What's My Line?
After watching the movies I loved as a kid, I'd spend hours in front of my bedroom mirror reciting the lines I could remember and making up the rest. I thought this meant I'd be a great actress, so I started out as a theater major in college.
As it turns out, though, my skin wasn't thick enough to protect me from the piercing laughter during my death scene in Romeo and Juliet.
That's when I decided to go behind the scenes. My school didn't have a film department, so I switched to Radio/TV where I wrote my first scripts for news, commercials, a documentary and a talk show. I landed my first professional writing job in 1998, then in 2002, Drive 2 Learn produced my one-hour audiobook, Working Your Way Through History: The History of Work, an excerpt of which is included on this page.
Finally, I started studying screenwriting in 2002 and now have a handful of screenplays in various stages of completion.
Plotting Your Success
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