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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