Enrollment LIMITED, Closes SOON. Most of you have seen me coach writers in this community. You've watched me take a character that felt flat, confused, or inconsistent… and in minutes the entire story unlocks. Suddenly the writer knows exactly what their hero wants, why they're stuck, and what the film is actually about. Here's the truth: That's not intuition. That's not magic. It's a system I built over 25 years of pitching and landing writing jobs on massive studio films — the kind everyone in Hollywood is fighting for. I call it Emotional Authorship — and until now, I've never taught it publicly. 👉 ENROLL NOW — $397 Go to Classroom → "Emotional Authorship Intensive" https://www.skool.com/the-writers-forge/classroom ⸻ What Emotional Authorship Actually Is Most writing tools focus on plot structure (Save the Cat, Hero's Journey, etc). But structure is useless without a story that has a beating heart. Structure tells you what happens. It does not tell you why it matters — to your character or to your audience. Emotional Authorship is the missing layer. It's the framework behind every major film I've written or rewritten: Shrek 2, Jimmy Neutron, The Rugrats Movies, Are We There Yet?, The Smurfs, Disenchanted — and it's why studios kept calling me when the scripts they developed weren't landing. The system comes down to three elements: ⸻ 1. The Wound 💔 Sometimes the Wound is trauma. More often it's naivete — a mistaken belief about how the world works. Example: Shrek isn't relatable because he's an ogre. He's relatable because he's the ultimate bachelor — living a self-protective life that hides deep fear. He's convinced he doesn't need anyone. That's his wound. Fiona's wound mirrors the other side of the same insecurity: She believes no matter how she presents herself on the outside, she'll never be enough as she truly is. That's universal — and why audiences connected so deeply. ⸻ 2. The Lie 🎭

I got almost 4 hours of work in on my story, 12 story boards, while coming off a fever. Time for 8 hours of self care and leisure.

Edit: Got pulled into a meeting. I'll be available at 1! Not 11:30. See ya'll then. I want to talk about these loglines you've been developing and how they make you think about your story. And give you some important tweaks on how to think about them. I'm developing material for the Emotional Authorship seminar next week and it got me to thinking about you folks and your logs of line. Let's talk! ps. these Zoom guest and workshop events are going to be more frequent and more scheduled in the coming year. The last two months have just been figuring out what people need and actual want! Def starting to get a feel for that, thanks to you all for showing up!

Just wanted to make an extra post so you guys see this. Was at 11:30. I got pulled into a meeting so will be available at 1. Who's in?

I made this playlist for myself. I watch it when it's time to get in the ZONE of concept art. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWZ4tMENlCIVdeWRA-8QRsIDSD9ip-zqQ Make yourself a 'pump me up' video collage. It works for me.