The Wrong Kind of Women and Why I Never Knew I was One Until Now
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Why I think mentorship programs and diversity initiatives are a bunch of B.S.
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Blue Skies Ahead
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This Week in Screenwriting
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Screenwriting Truly Ain't for Sissies...
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When Giving Up Isn't Giving In and Other Unexpected Tales of Success
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Another Auld Lang Syne
Hollywood, Schmollywood
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The Ugly Truth...
Being a screenwriter is like being a fish; sometimes you make it upstream to spawn and sometimes you wind up in the bouillabaisse.
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Women's History Month and the Myth of the Female Writer
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You're No One in Hollywood...
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Don't Tell Me No. Seriously. Just Don't Do It.
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The Dark of Night
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How to become an overnight success in thirty years or less
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Dear Jennifer: How is pay inequality your fault because you aren't a good negotiagtor?
Screenwriting 101 Or Why Writing a Screenplay is Much Harder Than It Looks
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