I couldn't resist myself. The thread I posted earlier from Reddit is exactly everything wrong with writing instruction today, and why I created this community. Check this out and comment here and on TikTok if this rings a bell with you and why you're here! My entire philosophy of teaching in one rant: Good Scripts vs Holy Shit Scripts In fact, this is exactly why I'm teaching the Emotional Authorship Intensive next week! If you haven't signed up for that yet, there's still room. Check it out and let's take your work to the next level! Here's the thread describing that seminar in detail.

Every week I discover something new and amazing about this platform. Just discovered the option of making everyone here an Affiliate, which means you make actual cold hard cash every time someone joins on your recommendation. This 20% applies not only to their monthly membership, but to any classes they take as well. Membership is currently at $5, but certainly will not stay at that low price. It's just there while we build. And speaking of building, it's very important that we build membership here considerably. That's going to massively increase the resources I can bring in, in terms of equipment and software I need to create classes and such on my end, but also, the bigger a community, the more support and the Bigger, Better, Badder Guests who will be willing to come in and share their insider knowledge and wisdom with us. Check out this video I'm attaching to explain how it works. Or just go under the Member tab and click Invite to get a link to send to your friends. And I urge you to create TikToks, FB and Insta post and share wherever you see fit. It will help us all! Thanks for helping me build this amazing place. Now who's in?! Also, if you do post on socials, drop your link below so we can help blow it up!

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 🎭