The biggest thing is not to compare and despair. We are all on our own specific paths and journeys. You know, one person’s success doesn’t take away from your success. It’s an infinite pie. If I see like, uh, someone post something and I feel that...
“You need to, assemble, uh, some people in your life who are good writers and usually that could be a person in the screenwriting class that you’re taking. It really helps to have a mentor in this business send your script around too. But if you take their...
“And what happens is the number’s over. Old revivals. Yow. Blackout. One of the cowboys rips Velcro. I spin out of this dress. He exits. Underneath it I have a full Liza Minnelli red sequin pantsuit on. And there is a dresser who has run on stage and...
“I’ll tell you one of the things I used to do in my, uh, English, uh, literature classes when I was teaching for the University of Maryland. I take them out and, um, for 10 minutes, all I just said, all I want you to do when I go outside is look up in the...
“Don’t just sit down and write a book. It’s just not going to work. The best thing to do is take the smallest steps and write a little scene about something. You don’t have to have the whole book. You don’t have to even know what...
