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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      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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      Failure is Overrated and Other Myths About Rejection as a Path to Your Dreams
      
        
      
      
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      Death By A Thousand Cuts
      
        
      
      
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      Rejection, Faith and Persistence, Or How to Survive the Hollywood No.
      
        
      
      
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      Writing About Writing When You Are Getting Nowhere Fast is like Shopping When You Are Hungry.  You Probably Shouldn't, but  Who's Going to Stop You?
      
        
      
      
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      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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      How My Short Film Made it to the Cannes Film Festival
      
        
      
      
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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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      The Art of Waiting
      
        
      
      
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      Don't Tell Me No.  Seriously.  Just Don't Do It.
      
        
      
      
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