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Introduce Yourself to the Group
Hi everyone,
I’m glad you’ve joined us for the class.
To start the class out, please introduce yourself below. That will give you a chance to be part of this group and learn how the forums work.
Tell us the following:
1. Name?
2. How many scripts you’ve written?
3. What you hope to get out of the class?
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you?
We look forward to working with you all!
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Hi everyone. My name is Lori Lance. I’ve written eight movie scripts over several years and a handful of tv scripts. Though I’ve written a little bit of everything, I am now focused on writing family-friendly scripts. I signed up for this class because of the weekly Zoom videos. I find Hal very motivating, and my goal was to rewrite one particular script over the summer anyway. Hopefully, taking this class will help keep me on track to do that.
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Hello all,
My name is Constance (Connie=the friendlier version).
I have written 12 screenplays and studied with SU for several years. I have one script optioned with a small producer in London that he is seeking financing for. I want to ramp up the quality of my top 3 other projects and then market them. This seemed like a timely course to keep me motivated and moving through the summer months. I also really like the notion of working with exclusively other SU folks.
Sadly, I will miss the first live session today, as I am involved in a local musical show this afternoon.
Enjoy!
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Hi I’m Kimberly Jentzen — I look forward to meeting and working with all of you! I really look forward to all the growth as well as completing a rewrite on a script that has my heart. I’ve written more than 10 scripts, 5 have been produced, one “story by” credit and 3 books. What’s strange about me is that I’m a cat whisperer. I’ve helped several friends with their cats. I’m not a cat person, I only have one feral that I feed because she was hungry for the last 10 years. I’m just very passionate about all animals, especially, obviously… wild ones.
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Hi everyone,
my name is Elisabeth Decesso, I live in Germany, this is my fourth class with ScreenwritingU and I am grateful for these courses, because they give more insight into “what is a good script”.I have written several screenplays so far and I hope that I can find out how to make the scripts I’ve worked on better.
Something unique about me: it was my dream to write for movies for more than fourty years now, but could never really get through until I became a naturopath.
I am looking forward to these lessons.
Thank you for this special course.
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Hi, I am Aina Järvine, a director of animated films and TV and an aspiring screenwriter – neo noir/horror writer, joining this class from Estonia.
I have completed few feature scripts, one of which (animated film) has been produced (released in 2020) and many shorts, several of which (animation again) have been produced.
My plan for this upcoming summer was to rewrite my next feature script and I have been treading this procedure, so Hal’s call for the Rewrite class came on cue and I am hoping to use it to have a draft 3 of my animated feature ready for more pitching by the end of this summer.
Something unusual about me: I have hot-pink hair, it’s been part of me for the past decade so it kind of feels as if I was born with it :-).
Looking forward of sharing this new fun journey with you all.
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Hi everyone, I’m Jacqueline and I’ve written and co-written 5 scripts, one of which won, best unproduced script at the British International Film Festival a few years ago. I’ve also written 2 books. I’m re-writing a script at the moment and it needs elevating so this course felt perfect for me and I really enjoy Hal’s teaching. I was an expat for 9 years and lived in Russia, the USA and then South Africa and currently I reside between the UK and Cape Town.
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Hi Jacqueline, good to make your acquaintance. Strange, I also reside between the UK and Cape Town, my home time. Good luck with the re-write!
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Tell us the following:
1. Name? Pat Galbraith
2. How many scripts you’ve written? 12
3. What you hope to get out of the class? To be more proficient with the way I do rewrites
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about. Passionate about writing.
Look forward to working with you all!
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Hello everyone,
I’m John Conley. I’m here to learn skills I can use to better my screenplay and further my success in the TV and Film industry.
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Hi Everyone,
I am Sandra Nelles and I have written 5 screenplays (4 features and 1 tv pilot). From this class I hope to elevate and rewrite one of my features. Something unique about me is that I have lived in various parts of the US and worked in several occupations, including criminal justice and mental health. Looking forward to meeting all of you!
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Hi Sandra:
I liked your outline. It sounds like you are an historical fiction person, too. I guess we’re supposed to team up. So, do you have anyone yet to team up with? I’m at emersofe@yahoo.com if you are good with this.
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Hello I’m Monica Arisman,
I live in Canada. I’m re-writing my very first script that I wrote in the ProSeries and have been “rewriting” for a couple of years now. I know it’s close. I’m looking forward to some new strategies from this class.
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1. Name?
Karlos DelToro
2. How many scripts you’ve written?
1/2 a script.
3. What you hope to get out of the class?
Learn the tools so I can refine my script once ready.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you?
My brothers and I each spell our last name differently.
I look forward to working with you all!
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Hello, my name is Griff Lambert.
I have completed 8 features and 2 complete TV bibles with pilots and 5 seasons outlined. I have been pitching one of these TV streamers recently until the Writer’s strike.
I want to re-write the original feature that inspired one of the TV streamers as it is over twenty years old and in need of an update (I think it still has value as a feature.)
I spent 10 years in the music business and 40 years in the TV business.
I look forward to meeting everyone in this class.
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Greetings from Down Under! My name is Paramita, I have written a few scripts, 5 have been made to films and one theatre production.
I find Hal’s classes very inspiring. Creative experiences provide me the oxygen to live and I enjoy working with creative people and be inspired. I love to travel and meet people from around the globe.
I look forward to this exciting journey with you all!
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Hello everyone,
My name is Amechi Ngwe.
I’ve written over 20 scripts (mostly features, a few TV pilots), I’m not sure what the exact number is anymore… I guess that’s a good thing?
I’m hoping to rewrite my script from the Writing Incredible Movies Class. I don’t think I got it to where I wanted to take it and am hoping a bit of time off and some new motivation will help me get it there.
Something different about me… I guess I really enjoy sitting and working in libraries. The books there just inspire me to get my work done too.
Looking forward to the class!
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Hi Everyone:
I’ve been writing for a long times. I have several articles published in local papers and magazines. I am currently working on a short story writing challenge. I have one comedy script finished. A second historical fiction one almost completed, and two others in progress that need a major rewrite. I also have one incomplete I want to finish and another I’m writing with a friend another comedy. I’m taking this class specifically to rewrite the two I need to rewrite. Glad to meet you all.
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Hello everyone. My name is Jamie, I’m a native Californian, lived in Orange County, school in Fullerton, moved to Encinitas (San Diego for those who don’t know the city) and later moved to Colorado, Nevada (Lake Tahoe/Incline Village), on to Montana and now reside in Arizona.
I’m a city girl but love the county side of me. After a horrific auto accident in Incline I had to close my business, built a home in Montana but couldn’t take the cold after several surgeries. And that’s how I came to Arizona. Too much metal in the body.
2. How many scripts you’ve written? 10 or so.
3. What you hope to get out of the class? A script I absolutely love.
4. Something unique, special, strange or usuZal about you?
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Name – CJ Knapp
2. How many scripts you’ve written? Many and TV pilots
3. What you hope to get out of the class? – A faster way to rewrite and reach the next level.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? – I like to travel – I am in Portugal at the moment… have 2 pugs and a cat… I love to cook and try new recipes!
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Hello everyone,
My name is Charles Jessen. I’m currently finishing my 9th screenplay. And also wrote a TV pilot and pitch bible about 9 years ago (pre-Binge Worthy Class). One screenplay (#4) was optioned by 3 different small-time producers at different times, had talent interested, but was never made.
I hope to get a new perspective to elevate script #8, which I wrote earlier this year, as well as the script I’m finishing now. I feel being in Hal’s classes not only elevates my skills, but is like having a career coach to keep me on track…. that alone is worth the price of admission. I hope to have both scripts, #8 & #9, ready to pitch at a Pitchfest at the end of July.
I am retired from the Advertising/TV commercial world, where I was a writer/director/producer. I live in Mill Valley, CA, am a pilot, sailor and travel frequently.
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1. Name?
Lisa Molenda
2. How many scripts you’ve written?
2 pilots with bibles/binge-worthy framework, 3 features, numerous shorts, 2 pilots in progress
3. What you hope to get out of the class? Continuous improvement for a quality script.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you?
I do flying trapeze for fun. It’s how I learned I was afraid of heights.
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Hi everyone,
I’m so looking forward to getting to going through this class with you.
1. Julia Bucci
2. 5 scripts
3. I have a script that needs a rewrite from the outline level.
4. I swim in Walden Pond!
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I’m Stephen Hoover. i’ve practiced law for 30 years and about 10 years ago got back to creative writing. That script one first prize in PAGE and several other contests, so I went on to write a dozen or so more. Some options, one made (TINKER’ available on Amazon), and hoping to improve my writing by 2.4% each year. Something unique about me: I was Junior State Chess champ in high school…. I’ve written 21 books (mostly on film-related topics)… and I’ve shaken hands with 5 U.S. Presidents. I’ll be in Los Angeles this first class (family trip and picketing as I’m a WGA member) but will be back for the second.
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Hi everyone,
I’m Jacqueline Murphy. I’ve written 3 scripts and a TV pilot called “The Admired”.
I hope to develop my skills in rewrites and work on the 2nd draft of “Yellowbird and the Titan” aka “Opioid Daze”.
I started out as a Registered Nurse which is what the script is based on- a personal story as a nurse and my experience with opioid addiction.
I look forward to working with you all!
Warmly,
Jacqueline
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I am Vickie McWilliams.
1. I have written five pilots, a few features and shorts.
2. I hope class will provide new techniques that I I can add to to my tool kit for me to improve my rewrite knowledge, skills and abilities.
3. Hmmmmm! I have to think about this one
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Hello everyone. My nom de plume is Eliza Herald. I am glad to be reconnecting here in SWU.
I have written one pilot for a streaming series for the Binge-Worthy Course and I am currently working with another SWU member as a writing partner on another script. Both of this scripts are in need of a re-write.
I have taken several courses with SWU, including a few of the intensives. I put this education on the shelf for a while during COVID to care for my mother and to create an organizational development design model for concerned citizens to activate resiliency in their own Watershed Communities. I am ready to pick it up again.
What I hope to gain from this course is both very simple and oddly complex. SIMPLE: I want the two scripts I have to be in the best possible version for presenting to producers for when I am ready; COMPLEX: My current primary responsibility is as the caregiver for my mother in her end-of-life time, so my own time to write is very precious. I am using this period to prepare for the next phase in my life by gathering the skills and connections to become a professional paid screenwriter. This has been a dream of mine for many years. I am not at all interested in thrashing through the trial-and-error method, and I truly appreciate the well-tested success methodology of SWU. I do not know the time frame for her transition, but I need the skills for that time.
I have worked in media production for 30 years at every level and in many different capacities, however, this work was always in support of other people’s stories. I have mostly worked as a cinematographer, video editor, and scriptwriter for a television series that aired on PBS for 15 years. It is now high time for me to now start telling the stories that are mine to tell.
This is a career choice that is easier on my body than production, and I know I can stay excited about it for as long as I can keep hold of the keen mental capacity of mi cabeza. This course is an excellent chance to turbo-charge the transition after caregiving by adding to my quiver of knowledge and hopefully, wisdom, in getting my stories produced.
Here is a more personal “interesting fact”, while growing up as a ski racer and wild child in the High Sierra mountains (on skis for as long as I have been walking), I was making little ski films as a pre-teen and I got my start in filmmaking working on the early (and first) Extreme Skiing videos.
Since then, I’ve become a lifelong Water Advocate and dedicated Change Agent. I use the skill of storytelling (hopefully now screenwriting) to tell entertaining, well-crafted stories that might help inspire humanity towards reaching critical mass to find and implement the most effective solutions for our species-wide imperative to shift the impending climate crisis. I am leaning into this “LIFE AND LOVE”, so that the present and upcoming generations of youth can thrive within a hospitable planetary atmosphere far into the future.
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Hello, I’m Stuart Voytilla, and I’ve written over a dozen scripts in a variety of forms (feature, television, immersive/interactive). I’m excited to take this course to assist with bringing a 140-page drama into a tight, engaging 105 pages (target). And to continue to hone my craft with revision strategies as part of my toolbox. One of my previous career hats was working in public affairs for The Baltimore Sun newspapers, back when David Simon was working the city beat. I’m looking forward to working with you in this class and supporting your rewriting.
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1. Name? Laron Glover
2. How many scripts you’ve written? 4 movie, 1 television
3. What you hope to get out of the class? More efficient/targeted rewrites. Also, like others have mentioned, I find Hal to be a spot-on, efficient, effective instructor (and motivator). Where other classes might give you a few tips, I find his courses packed with useful information and industry insights. I was also attracted to the class being limited to SU alumni (to take topics & questions to an even higher level.)
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? My eyes are different colors. 🙂
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1. David Agnew Penn
2. 30+
3. Improve my craft
4. Spent 6 months in Costa Rica and 1 day with Sean Penn
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Hi everyone, Robert Daniel here – great to finally get through the hurdles to be here. i have written several scripts over the last 10 years and taken over 12 of Hal’s classes. Hope to use this rewrite class to polish one of my older scripts. Thankz Robert
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Hello Robert! Wonderful to be in this class with you again!
Let’s catch up.
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1. Mary MacNeith
2. Four features, two teleplays and one sitcom I’m working on.
3. What I hope to get out of this class, is elevating my true story rescue script that I wrote a few years ago. I have people who were apart of the rescue who want to watch it, and they aren’t getting any younger 🙂
4. Something unique about me is that I created my last name, and my husband liked it so he changed his name to MacNeith before we married.
We look forward to working with you all! Happy Writing!
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1. Tracy Cheney
2. 4 scripts – 2 TV pilots
3. I plan to turning one of those pilots into a successful script. Wish I could make it a comedy, but I’m not a funny writer (though took the comedy class haha).
4. I was a CA state elementary art teacher of the year.
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Joan Dougherty
My name is Joan Dougherty, and I live in Canada, my adopted home. I’ve taken many ScreenwritingU courses over the past few years but have only one script to bring to this Rewrite class. It’s an unusual story that merges fantasy and drama and is perhaps better described as a work of magic realisim. I wouldn’t have gotten to this stage without the courses I’ve taken from ScreenwritingU and have chosen to take this course so I can benefit from being a member of a writing community again. I’m hoping that, by its end, I will have a script that is improved, polished and ready to take out into the world.
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Hi there! I’m Melanie and I’ve written about a dozen scripts. I hope to learn a repeatable process I can go through to rewrite my scripts to increase their quality and marketability. I’ve written a variety of genres, but most recently I’ve been writing feel-good, inspirational comedies with female leads over the age of 50. I’ve taken trapeze classes and I can tie balloon animals. (Maybe I’m just a closeted circus performer at heart! Haha!) I’m looking forward to following the progress of everyone’s scripts as we go through this class together!
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Hi Folks–
My name is Nancy Kates, I live in Berkeley, CA, I have written drafts of two screenplays, and have studied screenwriting through various organizations and platforms, though I mostly work in documentary film, as a producer/director. I’m hoping to address the problems in my script, ie I know what is not working, but sometimes lack the confidence/skill to try to fix the problems…which are evident at the outline level. My screenwriting journey often feels like I’m trying to build a perfect house while learning carpentry–there are a lot of angles that go awry. In any event, hope to keep learning, growing, and transforming my script. Fun facts about me: I have dimples, and I own three plum trees.
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Hi,
I’m June Fortunato
I’ve written at least 20 screenplays, more than 30 short screenplays, a limited series, interdisciplinary performance works and radio dramas.
I joined because Hal is available live, and I find him so uniquely helpful and genuine. The lessons and the schedule keep me on track, too.
Goal
I wrote a short story a few years ago and want to rewrite it as a screenplay. The challenge is daunting, and wisdom tells me that I should rewrite one of my finished screenplays. Nonetheless, this one has a high concept and expresses the offbeat dark comedy that I love these days. AND, new ideas & science keep challenging me to go for this one.
Unique
I have an offbeat sense of humor and point of view.
I started my career working in experimental theatre (in the days of Mabou Mines.) I developed /wrote experimental operas, live works, interdisciplinary forms – directed and produced them. I wrote and directed radio dramas which were broadcast on public media. I directed plays. My film was also broadcast on PBS. My “living film” (presented on a stage) consisted of thousands of projected images and voices, with which live actors interacted. (Magical Realism) and like many of my works, consists of deeply overlaid images and voices.
Now I write dark comedy, romance and dramedy.
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Hiya all yee fellow wordslingers!
I’m Chris Woodson.
No idea how many scripts. maybe I’ve co-written 2 tv scripts? maybe 5?
I’m here to become more of kick-butt storyteller so I can work on projects to help make the world a better place.
I also write poetry, short stories, and nonfiction. and I write with my Dad sometimes. 😉
happy writing!
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Hi, I’m David Becker and I recently moved to the English countryside with my family, which I love.
I have written 4 scripts thus far, the most recent (post MSC15) has been optioned and looks likely to be produced, which is exciting.
I’m looking forward to sharpening up my skills with this course as I’m busy writing my next feature over the summer.
I have plenty of quirks! I once ran across the Sahara Desert, competed in the World Memory Championships and Mind Sports Olympiad, and did a 10-day silent retreat. But nothing floats my boat more than writing!
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My name is Denise F. Bryant
I have written two scripts. I hope to achieve an improved rewrite of my script, THE ADVOCATE, that will sell.
Something unique, special, strange or unusual about me.
I created and gave idea to a standardized nursing home complaint form and advocated its implementation in every nursing home in America for transparent reporting of abuse and neglect. It is now required in every U.S. skilled nursing facility and is also included in the Affordable Care Act of 2010. Check your state’s website to file a complaint.
I giggle a lot and look forward to this journey with each of you!
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