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The original Development Hell archive is now here.

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Rolling Up Characters (2015)

A taste of Development Hell

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Finding a Writing Style

How to develop your unique screenwriting voice

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2025-02-18

On joining a salon

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On Authenticity

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2025-01-29

On writing for hire vs spec work, with digressions on what you should submit to agents and some light early-evening swearing.

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2025-01-24

Reality vs User Experience

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A kind of resistance

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2025-01-22

Fishing with the Yakuza

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2025-01-21

Morning musing on Elon's flailing and the social media circus.

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2025-01-20

A journaling experiment.

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Reality Tunnels

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Oh sh*t what now?!

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The Award-Winning Director

A prescient lesson from Hollywood

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Kill the Cat

Some thoughts on story structure...

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Don't Give Them What They Want

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On content schedules...

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Where I'm At - October 2024

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On Aeon Timeline

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"All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"

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The Other Guy

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Writing slowly

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On notes, outlines, and somehow cobbling a script together...

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The Collapse of Hollywood

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January 2024 - The story so far...

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Into 2024 with Development Hell