About

I write screenplays and direct movies.  I read advice columns.

Advice columns are full of conflict.

Good screenplays are full of conflict.

People who write to advice columnists are usually looking for help in having a difficult conversation.   Most advice-column advice comes down to “Have you tried telling that person what you just told me?”

Movie characters are all direct and brave and articulate the way that we almost never get to be in real life. They get to have those difficult conversations and make them sound awesome.   That’s not because screenwriters are life experts.  We are not.  You should probably not be taking life advice from a woman whose plan for paying back $100K in grad school debt is “be an indie filmmaker.”

I can’t tell you what to do.  But I can try to tell you what to say, or lend you some courage in saying it.

Write to me at welcometoawkwardtown@gmail.com.  I will redact personally identifying details from your question and reserve the right to edit it for length and content before posting.  And then I will give you honest answers and try to make you sound awesome.

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2 Comments on “About”

  1. spacer glasshousemarriage says:
    November 5, 2011 at 11:04 am

    I love this idea! I will be following.

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  2. spacer latteandlove says:
    December 7, 2011 at 7:19 am

    Excellent concept:)

    Reply

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