“I really do believe that people should engage in a writing workshop or a class or something like that because I do think having feedback about how people are responding, it doesn’t mean you have to use it or agree with what they say. But it’s very...
“Hardest part about writing is just keeping your butt in the chair. Discipline and persistence. I recommend people do it every day. And you just have to just keep at it. Can’t wait for inspiration to strike. You have to do it long enough until you kind of...
“When you’re trying to come up with a character, I look at it a little more technically. What’s the age? So she’s maybe a teenager. Okay, where’s she from? Okay, just to make it easy, put her in the south, maybe she’s a little bit...
“When you go out to play, you really want to put the audience at ease. You want to make sure that they’re okay. So when you’re, when you kind of reverse it and think, oh my God, they’re all looking at me and what am I going to do? Your goal is...
In the final installment of his Screen Perspectives podcast conversation, Steve Cuden distills decades of experience into a single guiding principle: stories work because they create catharsis. Catharsis, Cuden explains, is an emotional purging that rewards the...
