In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a reader about having confidence and stretching farther as a writer: “I think it's my confidence. I feel completely sure that I don't know...
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to two readers in response to their submissions to a recent reader survey I conducted. Their comments and questions coalesced around balancing...
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to two readers in response to their submissions to a recent reader survey I conducted. Their comments and questions coalesced around dealing...
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a writer who’s commented about feeling like they’ve stalled around writing. "I’ve made so much progress with my draft but… I’ve just...
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a few readers in one article, in response to their submissions to my recent survey about the classes, workshops, and programs I teach....
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a writer about overcoming procrastination and dealing with self-criticism: “I need to overcome my procrastination. I am trying to write a...
When I first started writing fiction regularly (screenwriting, specifically), our first child was quite young — like 3 ½. I really had to "steal" time to make writing happen, mostly from my own...
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a writer about whether to give up on a script after not getting the response they anticipated from contests and fellowships: “I’m ready to...
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a writer about picking up the pieces after getting burned out: “I was on a writing streak but then I took on a project that completely...
In this month’s “Ask the Coach” article, I’m responding to a writer about character naming, who says: “If I have many characters of a certain group, Ninjas for example, too many to name individually...
In this month's "Ask the Coach" article, I'm responding to a writer about script marketing, who says: “Hello, I come by this way to be informed about where to send my 44 movie scripts? I sent it to...
In this month's "Ask the Coach" article, I'm responding to a writer about confidence, who says: “I’ve had a rough year and a half, which is affecting my writing confidence hugely now.” In the...