Welcome to my blog. I document my adventures in travel, style, and food. Hope you have a nice stay!
The key to adapting to new environments properly is to first figure out your core. What drives your art? Maybe it’s connection with other people. Maybe it’s a value like compassion or honesty. Maybe it’s your intellect or a thirst for knowledge. Whatever that core is, let that guide you as you journey through the ups and downs of your environment.
Writer, actress, producer, and women in film activist Naomi McDougall Jones gives us an unprecedented and unfiltered look at the realities of indie film distribution and her decision to forgo a traditional theatrical release for her subversive rom-com Bite Me in favor of a self-booked 50-city tour called The Joyful Vampire Tour of America.
Raymond Carr walks us through crowd-funding his new short Joyriders, which takes all your favorite 80s sci-fi adventures and explores them through the eyes of inner city kids of color.
Jacob York writes of his lifelong love of professional wrestling and the identity crisis that wrestlers have dealt with as the fans have continued to grow with them throughout the years.
Alex and Monica explore the topic of writing characters with identities different than your own, focusing on tropes to avoid when developing the characters and how to research these identities in order to portray them most accurately.
Pepper Reed gives insight on the writing groups she’s currently a part of, what she loves about them, and even how to go out there are start your own!
Jordan Noel examines his obsession with the short-lived genre of Glam Rock and how Todd Hayne’s Velvet Goldmine influenced his own personal life and direction.
We interview writer/director Kevin O’Brien about his film At the End of the Day and how he found his own creative identity through amplifying a voice that is so rarely heard in such an honest and empathetic way.
Colby McHugh geeks out over Steven Soderbergh’s experimental comedy and explores the director’s journey in finding (and redefining) his identity over and over and over and over and over again.
There is a lot of pressure to demonstrate your originality and many times leads to artificial projects made to please others. In this video, filmmaker Adam Petrey discusses ways to stay true to yourself and how to develop your own creative identity while living your life to the fullest.
I think some writers are born with a way of writing. However, a lot can be done to try and create something that isn’t there to begin with. That’s reading, watching films and TV and really studying different genres…
Hudson & Sonya chat about IDENTITY and discuss our desire to belong, where we first saw ourselves reflected on screen, and what we can do to push diversity in everything we create.
What do people think of when they think of you? As someone who both works in marketing and creates content that needs to be marketed, this is a question I often ask about the products I’m creating, whether that be a movie or this blog you’re reading right now…
We thought it’d be fun to let you guys get to know our contributors a little bit better by exploring their “first times” of genre fiction and geekdom…
Monica Beard and Alex Oakley host a new monthly segment called "Study Up" where they'll take one topic surrounding our monthly theme, go out and explore it, and come back and report about what they learned. This week, they tell us how they started their first podcast.
In this industry, the final product is not the experience. I had such a rich experience working on This World Alone and that will never change no matter how the movie in its finality is received. I believe maintaining focus on process and growth is one of the most valuable lessons I learned…
Writers—stepping away from your laptop-induced solitude and connecting with people is good for you in general. And you want to be sharing your work with peers, getting valuable feedback, and highlighting weaknesses. Taking advantage of table reads and hearing it read aloud will do that in a way that reading it in your head can’t.
It helped me immensely to plan out the book before I started writing it. I love the process of planning out details that will come back later in the story and make you go “OH! OH MY GOSH!!! WHAT?? DID THEY PLAN THAT?” And the answer is...
