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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?
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in.
We look forward to working with you all!
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218 Replies
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1. Sara Longmuir
2. I’ve finished 3 feature scripts. Before finding ScreenwritingU I had started and abandoned quite a few others. I’m writing a new screenplay as part of Writing Incredible Movies (I’m on draft 2).
3. I want to be able to write well for TV too – great series that will be produced. I’d like to keep up to date with how AI can assist me most effectively. I also want to be able to give and receive helpful feedback from course colleagues to improve my writing even more.
4. Something unusual about me is that as well as having a 40 year career as a chartered accountant in the UK, for the last 25 years I’ve also been a part-time clinical hypnotherapist working with people to help them stop smoking, change unwanted habits and deal with stress related conditions like anxiety and panic attacks. I’m also a certified trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).
5. I’m currently working through Writing Incredible Movies 4. It’s great and my writing is definitely improving, but I seem to be the only one enrolled on the course so I haven’t benefitted from feedback, although I have been able to see the forum posts of people who took WIM previously. I’m looking forward to learning alongside other people on BW TV.
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Hi Sara. I know quite few people who could use your therapy, especially me and everyone in my family.
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Hi Sara,
I’m in WIM 5. Not sure where you are at in WIM 4 but if you need feedback on anything specific, I am willing to help. 🙂 Margaret
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Thanks Margaret for your offer of feedback, that is so kind of you. I’m a month behind ☹️, I’m on module 6 lesson 2 (draft 2 of the screenplay, I should be on module 8 lesson 1 and I’m plodding on). I’ll connect with you through ScreenwritingU and find out where you are, how to exchange drafts ant the appropriate time etc. Feedback feels like such a benefit of the WIM course so it’ll be fantastic to be able to connect and give feedback and receive feedback!
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1. Deborah Twiss
2. I’ve written seven features, all produced, one first season of a series that comes out in the next couple months (7 episodes, 30 min each) and a series that I shot the pilot of and have a bible for but is my primary objective to tweak and get moving on in this group.
3. As I mentioned, my series A Beautiful Distraction which I already have a pilot and trailer and bible for….but to truly secure the financing, I think this program will help me nail it.
4. Unique…hmmm….I have 11 rescue chihuahua mixes and 11 rescue cats. And a turtle. I’ve fostered many many more but ended up with the odd ball lover-babies.
5. I’ve done the thriller, action, horror and I did the original Binge Worthy but I am excited and intrigued by the AI component and so I’m diving in to take everything up a notch!
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HI Deborah. Congratulations on your series. Also on completing so much.
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Hello Deborah, thank you for your devotion to the dogs and cats! You’re a good soul.
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Love your menagerie!
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congratulations and love your collection of little ones!
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1. Richard Morell
2. I’ve written 13 features and 2 TV pilots.
3. As I’ve learned more about writing for TV and film, I’ve discovered I’m more suited to television. I want to use AI as a tool to speed up my writing of TV pilots and begin to create a library of scripts to market. I’m also curious about if it’s possible to use AI to help me write spec scripts, though I know that is outside the purview of this course.
4. I’ve been studying astrology since I was 7 years old. Also, I’ve just been cast in a local production of Larissa Fasthorse’s “The Thanksgiving Play” as Caden.
5. I was in ProSeries 54 and BingeWorthy 3, I think? (2019) Also MSC 6 and MSC 12.
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I am Diane Phelps
I’ve written 22 features and 17 Tv Series. I hope to get a better understanding of a working process with the support of AI.
I’ve taken the Proseries, the Profound screenplay and the AI classes.
Something unique about me is i’m secretly planning to take over the world.
Looking forward to meeting all of you.
LadyDi
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Good luck with your secret plan. I mean it.
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Ah, but it’s not a secret anymore!
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1. Abdul Rahim
2. I’ve written a feature and nine episodes of a sitcom.
3. I wish to write quality B.W. T.V. shows that audiences rave about.
4. I’m a Diesel Mechanic with a Class A CDL and a Certified Welder for the past 30 years. I’ve turned down career opportunities of a lifetime, for a job with little pay that I abhor in order to have the freedom to pursue my dream of writing and working on Film Sets.
5. I was in the BW 7 class
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1. Name? Lois Wickstrom
2. How many scripts you’ve written? 12
3. What you hope to get out of the class? find out if AI is for me.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I’m an exercise junky
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. ProSeries 9, Binge Worthy TV 2021
We look forward to working with you all!
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1. Name? Mauricio Velez
2. How many scripts you’ve written? I have written several documentary scripts, 3 movie scripts, but I have not written a scripted series yet.
3. What you hope to get out of the class? I want to explora how to apply Ai to help me write an engaging series.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I’ve travelled the world doing documentaries. Love the outdoors, wildlife and sports.
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. I took the Binge Worthy class.
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I’m Renee. I’ve written 5 scripts, one of which has been optioned. I am looking forward to learning how to write a Bingeworthy TV show that gets audiences hooked.
I participated in the Junior Olympic Archery Development Program in my youth.
I was in ProSeries 77, the very first Writing Incredible Movies, as well as a number of other classes with ScreenwritingU. This will be my first foray into the Bingeworthy TV world.
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Hi Renee. I don’t know which is more interesting, archery or that you were in the Junior Olympics. Either way (or both), I’m impressed.
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Hi Renee, I remember you from our PS77 class. Nice to see you here. You were very welcoming and gave great insights. Thank you!
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Hi Sylvia! I’ve often wondered how your script came out from PS77 since you started later than the rest of us. I’m glad to see you here.
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1. Bob Creager
2. Excluding the crap scripts, I have 7 features, and 4 pilots
3. The ability to brainstorm with ease.
4. I’m perfectly normal.
5. PS51, MSC4, BWTV4, and a number of the smaller classes.
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1. My name is Jeffrey Alan Chase.
2. I’ve written over 20 features and a BW one-hour Crime Drama pilot/Bible/Pitch Deck.
3. Another Recommended script. I’ve come out of each of the last 6 SU courses I’ve taken with a script that received a Recommend. Hoping for #7.
4. I’m a Nashville songwriter and SAG actor. I’m currently looking for a manager to help direct my screenwriting career.
5. I’ve taken the Contained, Action, Mini Movie, BW, Thriller, Pro 63, Master, horror and WIM classes. Each has been immensely helpful and I’ve enjoyed them all.
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Hi Jeffrey. You’re an accomplished professional entertainer/artist, for sure. Glad to be in the same course with you.
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1. Janeen Johnson
2. I’ve written 7 movie scripts and 2 BW TV pilots/bibles
3. I want to get better at using AI to improve marketability.
4. I’ve moved 36 times in the last 50 years and lived all over the country.
5. I don’t remember which Pro Series or BW TV I was in, but took both.
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• Kristina Zill (my friends call me KZ)
• I started out as a playwright, writing many plays that were produced in small venues. Then I took Robert McKee’s Story workshop, and shifted my focus to screenplays. Of all the scripts I’ve written, about 5 are marketable. I moved to the Catskill Mountains and since there wasn’t the vibrant theater community I had known in NYC, I wrote 2 novels. I was a finalist in a screenplay contest in 2013. My play (HOME) was adapted to film (FOREVER YOUR FIREPLACE), which won Best Comedy Short at Worldfest Houston in 2016.
• During BWTV-23, I took the AI for Screenwriters class, and tried unsuccessfully to apply the intriguing methods to my BW project. And just about the time I was musing that it would be supernaturally wonderful if there were an AI component tailored to BWTV, bada bing! I’m noodling on a new idea for this class, and I also hope to apply AI techniques to brainstorm improvements to my previous BW script.
• When I was 8, my family moved from Houston, Texas to Paris, France. Learning a language in a sink-or-swim way gave me a knack for languages, an ear for dialogue, and comfort with being a fish-out-of-water. Most likely, total immersion in a foreign country is the reason I became a writer. On the other hand, I have difficulty recognizing faces, which has led to many an embarrassing social faux pas. That kind of lifelong absurdity may be why I write comedy.
• In addition to genre classes, I have taken BWTV-23 and Creative Mastery-4
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Hi Kristina (KZ). What a life! Since I was fourteen, I’ve dreamed of living in Paris.
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Hi, Lawrence! I hope one day you’ll achieve your dream. Duo Lingo has free lessons to learn French, which can be accomplished in a mere 5 minutes a day. Meanwhile, here’s my suggestion for word of the day… Punaise de lit. (Bed bug) 😉 Nice to virtually meet you!
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Hi KZ(ok to call you KZ as virtual friend?). I envy your ability with languages. I envy ANYONE with ability in languages. I’m terrible at it. I studied French all four years in high school and could rarely understand a word anyone said. German for three semesters, a little better. One term Italian (on the midterm, I accidentally answered all the questions in French, got the French right LOL). All through elementary school, we were taught Spanish over the P.A. I still have trouble understanding Spanish. English? I’m not too bad.
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My dad used to say, simulating some undetermined accent, “I speaka four languages, of which English, I speaka da best.” Yes, please call me KZ!
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Big Smile here. Gotta love a dad like that.
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Hello KZ,
I also have a place in my heart for Paris, where I spent a few years with my petite copain. And I grew up in NYC before coming to Los Angeles, where I began a 40-year TV career.
My French is rusty today because I threw France over for Italy about 20 years ago. My wife and I have renovated a home in Sicily and we are currently getting away from construction chaos in Taormina.
I am skeptical about AI but also very intrigued, so I think that this deep dive will let me see if I can use AI as a tool to complete an ambitious TV series I started in the Bingeworthy course.
Piacere di conoscherela
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Hi, Griff,
I have heard that the Italian government is offering houses throughout rural Italy for super cheap to keep their villages from dying. Is that why you’re renovating in Taormina?
I took a semester of Italian many years ago so that I could sing along with opera. When I actually hear it spoken conversationally, it seems impossibly fast to understand. I’ll have to do total immersion at some point.
Ciao!
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Hi KZ,
Taormina is hardly dying, but that’s not where I have built. Our renovation is on the other side of Catania about 75 kilometers away in a town called Brucoli, near Siracusa.
We did not sign up for any of those 1-euro deals, although some are legitimate. Friends from Catania found this place for us as they have a weekend home very nearby. There are a lot of great opportunities in Sicily and other places in Italy, but when you hear of those cheap deals to keep villages alive they are fraught with strings attached (such as you must use a particular contractor that the local “commune” has a relationship with,) and in many cases it is in order to drive out squatters who have made the town unattractive to buyers. It’s then up to you to figure out how to get the existing residents to leave, as Italian law favors the occupant over the property owner!
Lorraine Bracco’s experience in Sicily is not typical but it is instructive. She’s had to throw a lot of money at the project, but I think she will find it worth it.
Sicily is beautiful! There are a lot of popular misconceptions about it, but if you really have an affinity, study your Italian (I did an immersion course in Tuscany 25 years ago) and go for it! Property values are affordable and the cost of living is way below most US major metropolitan areas. We live in the San Francisco Bay area not far from Napa Valley, so our cost of living is among the highest in the US. If we can navigate the bureaucracy, we will be living here full-time in a couple of years.
Buona fortuna!
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KZ, I’m glad there’s at least one other person writing comedy in the group. Looking forward to seeing what you are working on
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Hi, Etta!
Well, sometimes I write comedy that dares not to be funny. Very cutting edge, dontcha know.
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Very jealous of living in Paris and the immersive language! As for the face thing, right there with you. It’s incredibly annoying!
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I’m Larry Fraller (by the way, I don’t how, but ScreenwritingU got my last name wrong. No wonder I can’t find any of my other courses!)
I’ve written three features, several shorts, and a music video.
Mozart in the Jungle got me hooked on watching series. Ever since, I’ve been wanting to learn how to write one myself. If AI can keep me from writing in too many directions at once, I’m all for it. (and anything else I can learn)
While in college, I interviewed some fascinating people for college newspaper. Some interviews I absolutely botched.
I’ve taken ProSeries, MSC15 and several 30-day courses with ScreenwritingU.
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Hi Larry, I think you were in either my ProSeries or MSC class. Looking forward to seeing your work! Margaret
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Hi Margaret. Good to see a familiar face. MSC15, I think. It’s been awhile.
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Good to see you here!
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Hi, I’m Tom Wilson. I have written three TV miniseries and feature scripts.
Out of the class, I hope to learn more and more about using AI to help me write faster and better.
I’m a veteran of a foreign war and have been on teams designing instruments and spacecraft at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
I was in ProSeries40, Binge Worthy TV 11, and took Writing Incredible Movies in 2022.
I look forward to learning from and with all of you!
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Hi Tom. Spacecraft at JPL? Wow!
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Cool on JPL! My dad was an aeronautical engineer for NASA (in Mountainview) back in the day
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Glad to see you!
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Hi all, Helen Rose Roberts here.
I’ve written eight features, one animation/live action hybrid special and my binge worthy pilot was optioned before last Christmas. Still working on my last bingeworthy class.
I hope this class will help me hone my skills in working faster with using AI.
Something unique, hmmm, a little I guess, I’m from that town the Broadway hit Come From Away was inspired by.
I did my pro series so long ago I can’t remember what number it was, but I completed it in 2010. This is my third time around for binge worthy, I was in Master Screenwriter certificate 3.
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Ha! I can’t remember which ProSeries I did either – I think it was 40-something.
Nice to meet you here.
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Nice to meet you too 🙂
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Hi, Helen, so nice to see you here.
Looking forward to reading what’cha will be working on.
Natalie
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Hey Natalia,
Great to see you hear! Actually, there are a lot of familiar people here. Bodes well and so looking forward to it 🙂
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1. Peter Saltzman
2. About 5 TV pilots, 1 feature
3. What you hope to get out of the class? To a) master the techniques of using AI as a brainstorming tool, b) up my TV writing game (even after taking the non-AI BW TV class 4 or so years ago.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I’m a monster pianist and composer.
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. BW TV (non-AI)
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James Ridgley
written about 3 dozen features and 6 TV Pilots. I had 2 TV Pilots in development and 3 feature screenplays in line for funding – one of which the producer was going to send me to New York State to direct — all fell through. Now I write micro-budget features and make them myself – I have two in post production now and 2 more I am prepping to make late this year and next. I also have gotten many rewrite and consultant jobs, which have currently slowed up.
I have taken all the big courses and a few small ones.
I want to get better with AI – AND I have lately been totally into crime dramas and so want more of them made and so I have to write them.
Unusual is my first career I traveled the world doing a comedy-juggling act. After that I became a production sound mixer on over 350 projects. I had my hand on Justin Bibber’s butt to put a mic pack on him and also had Mick Jagger with his shirt pulled up to put a mic on him. Also 30 years ago I pitched Steven Spielberg my “Boy and his Dog” story on Matador Beach. He was gracious but nothing happened.
Hope the best for everyone here – let’s do this.
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A fellow live production professional! Nice to meet you.
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Hi! I’m Denice. I’ve written at least a dozen scripts and have taken a lot of Hal’s courses from Action to Binge TV, Comedy, the ProSeries, rewriting, etc. I hope to write a fantastic new, Binge Worthy TV script by using AI. i also publish and write fantasy and sci-fi kid lit, inspired by the dragons around me.
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The news is so awful right now, it is almost unbearable. I have always admired writers who get their work done despite horrific world events, and I am determined to be one of those writers, rather than my usual pattern of allowing the outside world to send me into a downward spiral of sleepless nights and despair. Irene Nemirovsky wrote Suite Francaise while she was fleeing Paris ahead of the invading German army, and what is her story about? Characters fleeing Paris ahead of the German invasion! It’s insightful and funny (and the last thing she wrote before dying in a concentration camp). I envy that kind of focus. As Robert McKee wrote, “If history has taught us anything, it’s that when toxic nightmare is finally cleaned up, the homeless provided shelter, and the world converted to solar energy, each of us will still be up to our eyebrows in mulch.” The world situation is dire, but before I’m up to my eyebrows in mulch, I hope to write a great script, or play, or novel. I look forward to working with you all as we improve our binge-worthy skills.
“I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art.” – Vladimir Nabokov
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SOMETHING has got to save the world (at least human beings) and it’s as likely to be a great TV script as anything else, eh?
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1. Bruno Romagnoli
2. I’ve written two feature films, two TV show pilots and bibles.
3. I want to be able to speed up my process of creating, I have so many ideas in my head, but sometimes I feel traped with the time.
4. I’m from a small town in Argentina. I’m also a actor who si currently working in Mexican TV shows, and also a very succesfull youtuber with alost 3M subscribers.
5. I was in Pro series 72.
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what’s your YouTube channel?
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One of the reasons I write what I do is inspired by the need to balance the news and hope to move people enough t protect the soul of humanity.
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1. Sylvia Krawczyk
2. I’ve written around 20 scripts–all types. I enjoy reading, writing and editing them.
3. I hope to find my AI brainstorming process. It seems wonderful at helping with ideas. I also hope to understand the Binge process as I don’t like most Binge series shows–they bore me. With the ones I do like, it’s the characters I find interesting. Although, most are not worth rewatching as much as a stand alone comedic episodic show. I hope to change that. Last, I think this class will help in writing a book series. I have one I have written–10 volumes, MG. Perhaps this class “binge process” is what I need to bring it together. I am open to write completely outside my comfort zone to learn the strategies taught.
4. I love editing–a lot. I proof read scripts, editorials, copy–for various media. Also, I’m a proud First Class Girl Scout (Senior) Cadet. I am fluent in Swabian–hence, I mix up sentence structure–it’s frustrating. I am a Technical Live Theatre Production Professional–Sound/Audio Specialist–your basic, everyday, over practical nerd. Love doing yard work. Love the outdoors.
5. PS 77
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My name is Deanne, working on script 8, and I’m taking this class because I want to be fluent in AI as it relates to screenwriting. SU courses: ProSeries 69, MSC12, BWTV5, and many shorter courses.
What’s unique about me? Well, I’m writing this with a stainless steel mixing bowl on my head. There is a rational explanation. Family moved in with me and I was having internet problems, so this week I signed up with a second internet provider to create my own private internet connection. My only option was wifi, and the modem must be in my room. No problem for 20 minutes, then I got a headache. Turn off wifi, headache goes away. Turn on wifi, it comes back. So, I asked my good friend, Chatty Gupta (aka AIgor), if there are substances that block wifi signals. With customary alacrity and efficiency, Chatty replied in five seconds with a list, and pegged reflective metal as the substance most likely to block signals. Thus, the mixing bowl. I would find this ridiculous and hilarious — but it works. Wifi is on, privacy secured, no headache. Stay tuned for more posts from . . . The Outer Limits!
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Hi Deanne. Your headache and solution remind me of Better Call Saul. Series on Netflix — spinoff from Breaking Bad. WiFi may yet be the death of us all, as conspiracy spirits might have it — also quite a few scientists. Glad you found a way to use the Internet before it abused you any further.
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1. Margaret Silebi
2. How many scripts you’ve written?
3. What you hope to get out of the class? Learn to use A.I. to write a bingeworthy series.
4. Retired last week after 44 years of nursing.
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. ProSeries 64, WIM 5.
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Margaret. Forty-four years! You survived all those illnesses and grumpy whoever’s. Certainly a lot of material, if it weren’t for HIPAA (names changed to protect the guilty). Good to see you here. Writing will hopefully fill the hole in your life that nursing left behind.
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Good to have a class with you again- it has been awhile.
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It has been awhile! Looking forward to this class with you. Margaret
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Thanks, Larry!
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congrats on the retirement!
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Thanks Julie!
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I am PJ, an aspiring scriptwriter who has authored three scripts. My intention is to harness the power of AI, a technology to which I had previously held strong objections, in order to craft a captivating series that showcases my storytelling prowess and simultaneously expands my professional network.
An intriguing facet of my identity that has recently emerged is my resemblance to the renowned figure, Anthony Bourdain. This uncanny resemblance was brought to my attention when I encountered an individual who had a personal connection to Mr. Bourdain, resulting in a profoundly emotional reaction.
My journey in scriptwriting has encompassed the completion of Pro Series 69, MSC 12, and partial progress in the Binge Worthy course. Regrettably, unforeseen life circumstances disrupted my path, leaving me with limited time to pursue my creative endeavors.
I would like to add that I have employed artificial intelligence to compose the aforementioned introduction, highlighting my newfound willingness to embrace this technology in my creative pursuits.
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Hello all!
Barbe LaPierre
5 features and 1 pilot.
Looking forward to creating with AI – my new writing partner.
PS32
Happy to be here!
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I’m Etta Worthington
Written 15 scripts, including 7 features (one produced), one TV series pilot, a couple of webseries, several shorts ( 2 produced), and a couple of documentaries (both produced)
I stopped writing late in 2016 to devote myself to activism. I am trying to find my creative self again and get back to writing.
I’m TheBumblingMixologist (yeah, on Instagram). Plus I am obsessed with gardening, and have taken over all my yard with garden and most of the parkways by my corner lot (let’s not talk about codes . . .)
I was in ProSeries 26, Binge Worthy TV back in 2017, and I was in the first iteration of Screenwriting Certificate class
I’m looking forward to getting to work and getting to know you all.
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No, it was ProSeries 25
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Hi, Etta,
I also got distracted in 2016 and lost about 4 years to activism. Gee, what was it that happened in 2016 again? Oh yeah… that. And I also have a garden. I used to be obsessed, but lately I’m only obsessed with writing.
See you in class,
KZ
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Anyone else unable to access the opening video? BWTV with AI isn’t showing up in my Your Screenwriting Classes page so I can’t access the video. I raised this with a support query through the customer services page, but no reply so far. If you can see the video, can you let me know please? Thanks
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I don’t have the BWTV with AI in my classes either–no video. I didn’t have this forum page either until I sent in to Support. Still waiting on the class to show up. I know they can be slow.
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Two things:
1. The “opening video” line was a typo from a previous class. The first video will be the one we create this Saturday.
2. The BWTV with AI class won’t show up in “Your Screenwriting Classes” until Sunday when we post the first lesson.
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Hey Hal,
As in Pro Series and the Master Screenwriting classes, will it be possible to get the assignment before the Saturday class?
Some of us like to review lessons and handouts before the call/lesson, so it’s not all new material. That may be why there were questions regarding what the 5 Star Model elements were.
If we have the prompts ahead of time, the demo makes more sense, and we can take notes on our printed out lesson.
Thanks,
Jan
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1. Joan Macbeth is my name, and I’m not generally spoken of in theatres so I’m in pursuit of TV writing now.
2. I have written a dozen or so feature scripts, some optioned, some produced, plus 2 TV pilots, some short films and a web series.
3. I’m hoping this class will help me to speed up the process of writing excellent TV pilots.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about me? I’ve traveled around the world in 83 days without the use of airplanes.
5. ProSeries 37; Binge Worthy TV during 2019-2020 but I don’t recall what number it was; plus many other ScreenwritingU classes including MSC 15/16.
Looking forward to the class!
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Hi, Joan,
I’m a fan of Nellie Bly, the journalist who was inspired by Jules Verne and famously went around the world in 72 days, long before the airplane era. Did you use any of her modes of transportation?
Cheers, KZ
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Clever answer on #1!
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1. Hi, I’m Gayla Betts.
2. I’ve written eleven feature scripts (2 optioned).
3. My goals for this class are: 1) write a ready-for-market bingeworthy series that sells right away, 2) sign with a manager, 3) become adept using AI as an assistant.
4. I like learning new things. Most recently I baked my first mini-bundt cakes using an AI recipe with rosemary, thyme, and cheddar cheese. #Success
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I look forward to getting to know everyone, and working with you, too.
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Hello, Wrters,
I’m Elizabeth Appell. I’ve taken several classes at Screenwriting U including the Pro Series (a long time ago) and Binge Writing (also a long time ago!)
I’ve written a bunch of scripts. Some have landed at various levels in competitions.
What’s special about me: I have a geographic tongue!
I hope to be able to turn ChatGBT into my personal writing room.
I’m very much looking forward to taking this class.
Onward!
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1. Name – Jason Lauer
2. How many scripts you’ve written – 5
3. What you hope to get out of the class – A better understanding of how to use AI for creating a TV show.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you – I have played high school basketball against 3 NBA Players and I was training to be on American Ninja Warrior.
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in.
MSC 8 & 16 and Bingeworthy 4
We look forward to working with you all!
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1. Brian Bull
2. I have written around 7 scripts.
3. I am currently enrolled in the BWTV class but I feel my story is lacking that “something” and I am hoping AI might be able to help me find that “something”. I also believe AI is the future and I would like to be a part of it now rather than later.
4. I work in the Motion Picture Industry and I have been extremely lucky to have had the opportunity to work with some of the best in Hollywood. For example, early on in my career I worked with one of my childhood stars – Vincent Price.
5. I am currently enrolled in Writing Incredible Movies, and Binge Worthy TV. Needless to say I spend a lot of time working on my writing.
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Oh Brian…I’m so jealous of your working with Vincent Price. I saw him speak once and held my friend’s cook book that he wrote in my lap the whole time telling her I would get him to autograph it, but I was too smitten to go up and ask him in front of the crowd.
I also am front the film industry but when people ask me my favorite actors that I’ve worked with, I say “The Pillsbury Dough Boy’ and Morris the Cat’..because both ‘hit their mark every time…
Good luck in this great class!
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Vincent Price signed my cookbook, too! Back in the late ’70s I made his acquaintance through Eddie Albert and family. What a nice man he was!
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1. Hi all, I’m Kirsten Sigurdson. Hard to pronounce? You can call me “Siggy.”
2. I’ve written three feature film-length screenplays.
3. I am reigniting my long-lost passion for screenwriting with this class. I love learning about new tech, so I am excited to use AI tools to help create unique scripts. I aspire to finish with an addictive BW comedy. With all the negativity around us, the world definitely needs more comedies!
4. Something unique, special, strange, or unusual about me? Although I love to live and explore new and unusual places, I’ve had to set adventures aside and move back to my hometown to help care for my three (out of four) parents: my mom and mom-in-law have Alzheimer’s, and my dad has dementia… But I still live in a weird place, a storage facility (I’m not homeless, but a Resident Manager ;).
5. I was in ProSeries 16, then completed the Rewrite class. I also had the incredible opportunity to accompany a small group along with my mom (also an aspiring screenwriter at the time), Hal, and Cheryl, to the DGA Awards in 2008.
I look forward to collaborating with you all!
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I am very impressed in your whats special statement. Take care.
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Hi Everyone,
I am Sandra Nelles and I’ve written 5 screenplays (4 features and 1 tv pilot).
From this class I hope to create a Binge Worthy TV pilot using AI that’s marketable.
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.
I’ve taken ProSeries 59, MSC 8, WIM, BWTV 4 and many other classes.
Looking forward to this amazing class!
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So glad to see you here and hope we will exchange scripts!
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Hello Everyone..hope I’m doing this correctly.
My name is KittyHopper and I’m in Chicago.
I’ve completed two scripts that didn’t go anywhere, but I like them both, so looking to improve them.
I was terrified to think about Ai but once I got into it I was pretty amazed, and I know I will become a much better ‘scripter’.
Unusual? Well, I have the only endangered insect living in my back yard..the Rusty Patch Bumble Bee…and many years ago I was a character (under a different name) in ‘Superman’ comics..who beat up on Superman.
I take the classes when I can and always learn an amazing amount…about myself as well.
Enjoy being among all he talent that posted!!!
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Hi, Kitty,
I had never heard of that bumble bee before. When I looked it up, I realize I have them in my garden, too. Thanks for the insight!
KZ
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1. Deb Griffith
2. I have written 7 scripts
3. I hope to become quicker at writing better and more marketable scripts
4. I found a doctor embezzling money from a university and that led to my becoming a police officer and a white-collar crime investigator for a prosecuting attorney.
5. I was in ProSeries 10, the first Writing Incredible Movies class, and I think it was Binge Worthy TV 7.
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Aloha, I am Kimbal Thompson
& have written 3 film scripts + Pilot & episodes for BWTV series
& hope to gain a working familiarity w/ AI for BWTV
Architect in Hawaii & Hawaiian Canoe paddler
BW 2019, RW 2020, PS 2021
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Hey everyone *big wave* Nice to see some familiar names here. I am a ProSeries 18 alum (yeah, it seems like aeons ago) and have done a bunch of SU classes, including Thriller, Fresh and Edgy, Contained Scripts, and more. I have 5 novels, one award winning short film and a TV show on Indian culture and cuisine (it’s currently being shot) to my name. One of my books was recently optioned by a prod co in Mumbai and I’ve been signed up by them to adapt it into a TV series. So, I’m very excited to learn binge worthy techniques and apply some AI magic to them as well. Cheers, Adite
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1. Eric Anches
2. Only one or two worth mentioning
3. I hope to improve my writing
4. I’m pretty average
5. All of them
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1. Sannie Chamblee, but my friends call me Tony.
2. I’ve written 1 feature screenplay and 1 TV pilot with a writing partner.
3. I want to learn how to effectively integrate AI into the creative process of writing for television.
4. As a highschool senior (many moons ago), I was the #2 Latin grammarian in Virginia.
5. ProSeries 61, Writing the Thriller, Comedy Writing for Screenplays, AI for Screenwriters
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Hello everyone,
I’m Sunil from India and I specialize in thrillers with strong female leads. I’ve written 7 Spec scripts including two TV pilots with series Bibles. I’ve always wanted to write more TV shows and I hope to do so faster by the end of this course. I’m also an engineer by qualification and before becoming a full-time screenwriter I worked in television and produced over a hundred documentaries for National Geographic. I was in the MSC15 & BWTV7.
Looking forward to working together with you!
Cheers
Sunil
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Hi Sunil. Great to see a fellow Indian screenwriter here. 🙂
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Hi Adite,
Same here. I think you might be the first one I’ve come across since taking Hal’s various courses from Thriller, Horror, Contained, MSC and BWTV over the last few years.
Congratulations on optioning your book. I’m excited for you!
Looking forward to working with you in the class as well.
Cheers
Sunil
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Glad to see you here.
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Hi Eclipse,
Glad to see you too!
Cheers
Sunil
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Hi Sunil. Good to see you here.
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Hi Larry,
Good to see you too!
Cheers
Sunil
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1. Name? Kevin Lee Miller
2. How many scripts you’ve written? 10 (But if you count rewrites, then, uh, about a thousand)
3. What you hope to get out of the class? Elevating my serialized TV writing skills using a very specific set of tools aided by A.I.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I toured with the Rolling Stones. I’m a Certified Hypnotherapist focusing on helping creatives be more creative. I’ve produced, written, directed, and/or edited over 6,000 TV promos.
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. ProSeries 17 (Yep… way back in ’07, when dinosaurs ruled the Earth.)
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What did you do on the tour?
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Hey, Griff… pleasure to meet you.
I’d like to hear more about how you decided on Sicily. My wife and I have been thinking about a similar move. Portugal was on the table. Now, we’re looking at Spain.
I produced a documentary about the Stones for Lorne Michaels called “25×5: The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stone.” My favorite moment was sitting in a hotel bar with Ron Wood and his wife talking about their wedding. What a delightful couple they were.
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Hi Kevin,
Sicily sort of found us. Italy has been our preferred destination for 25 years, then we made some good friends in Catania on the east end of the island from Palermo. We rented their weekend house in Brucoli once, then casually asked if there were other opportunities in that community, and about a year later they found us a house that we have been renovating.
We also considered Spain as we have a good friend near Malaga and we also love that area, but the opportunity in Sicily won out. And, no, it wasn’t one of those 1-euro deals (see my reply to KZ here in the forum.)
In Portugal, we attempted to find a bad wine, but we failed.
My only Rolling Stones story is running into Ronnie Wood at Dan Tana’s in Beverly Hills back in the early 80’s. I think it was he who ran into me on his way to the floor after falling off his bar stool.
There are a lot of great opportunities in Sicily and elsewhere in Italy (friends of ours are renovating a house in Abruzzo) so if you want some pointers stay in touch!
Buon divertimento!
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Sounds like an exciting journey all around. And thank you for the offer of pointers. You may live to regret making it. 😉
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I had a couple of drinks with them back in the early 60’s when they would come over to the piper club.
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Valeka yes I lived in Rome for a few years as as a teenager.and for your second question on astrology. I use a western/ tropical approach but mostly a touch of my own style. you might have virgo somewhere in your chart. lol and yes thank you about the elephant reply.
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Hi, I’m Griff Lambert
I have seven completed feature screenplays and one TV project and bible I did in Bingeworthy and one that I have completed outside of SU.
<div>I have taken ProSeries, Bingeworthy, Re-write and other SU courses.</div><div>
I retired (gave up?) from 40 years in television production and will be soon moving permanently to Sicily, if we can ever navigate the Retirement Visa (insert headache here.)
Unique about me? I suffered a stroke almost two years ago and I am recently back to writing. I think AI may be able to help replace some of the brain cells that were scrambled in that stroke.
Looking forward to seeing everyone’s discoveries about AI.
Griff
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I’m Jerry Robbins, and I’ve written a lot of scripts; most I’ve just tossed aside or never finished; one at present is in pre-production. I have had some shorts produced. I would like to know more about AI and how to use it to write a TV series. I was doing some prose on a book in January and began to experiment with AI, mostly for rewriting, which I found to be quite useful. I’ve also discovered that it is excellent at research if you are nice to it and tell it in precise terms what you need. It also makes you think of things you wouldn’t have otherwise. I’ve used several different types. I’m hoping to get a better idea for prompting it as well as getting organized to write a TV series. I took either the 43 or 44 ProSeries and a number of other classes, including the Bingeworthy horror and thriller classes.
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Hi Jerry, Glad to see you here. We can catch up. Pat
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Jerry, did you send this message to Veleka?
“I bet you have your subject all lined up.“
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1. Mike Jones but I tend to author my scripts as M. Morgan Jones.
2. Four drafts and a partial TV pilot for a limited adventure series. Began learning to write screenplays in 2017.
3. Putting these great new skills to use on developing a new t.v. series idea and applying them to my other one.
4. Unique? You bet. Special? No doubt. Strange? Depends who you ask. Unusual? Not really. Evidence? Hardly.
5. I was in ProSeries 76, and have taken a bunch of other courses here and elsewhere, and this is my first Binge Worthy TV class since I only thought about doing a series in the last year or so.
Am grateful to be part of this with y’all.
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I’m Savanna Jax
I’ve written two full-length stage plays and many shorts and monologues using skills I’ve learned through SU.
I seek to use AI efficiently to produce many, many scripts quickly.
I might be addicted to Hal’s voice, and I’m from the hometown of Doc Holiday. It’s in GA.
Enjoyed SU’s AI classes, and BW and WIM.
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1. Rob Ingalls
2. 6+ features, 2 TV Pilots, 1+ manuscripts. I’ve been optioned twice.
3. Improve my game using AI as assistant
4. I’ve flown into the center of 54 typhoons / hurricanes
5. I’ve completed practically all of Hal’s courses.
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Hi Everyone
1.My name is Eclipse Neilson
2.I have completed 6 full features-one is optioned and another is with two producers who are seeking funding for it.
3.I hope to learn how to write for TV and learn how to use AI with comfort and ease.
4.In the 1990’s I rescued an old zoo elephant from decades of chains and neglect from a corrupt town. It was a deep and eye opening experience and the subject of my first screenplay. Because of this experience I am committed to write scripts that address discrimination in all its different forms along with themes that help the environmental movement.
5. I was in the ProSeries 73 and WIM and MSC15 and….
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Bravo to you for your elephant rescue adventure! I’m a huge advocate for animals. 💜
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Wow! Way cool. I work in sustainability because I don’t want to live in a world without elephants.
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Thank you for saving an elephant!
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Eclipse, I am thrilled you rescued an elephant. Namaste and hooray to you!!!!!
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Hi Eclipse. You’re never short of good stories to tell. And you tell them well. Good to see you here.
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writtten 10 scripts, get made into BS series, I honk at swans on lake and they come, I sail, I got many many plot ideas, I have para normal senses I cant talk about to keep them
I ve been lot of pro series, not after fire wiped me out I am getting space for total writing
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I’m Eric Geier. Originally from the Upper West Side of Manhattan, I now live in Boca Raton, FL. I’ve started several scripts, but have yet to finish a single one. My goal (not hope) is to allow myself the space to break out of my comfort zone, trust a process that I’m unfamiliar with, and produce material that could help me to break through the rut that my life is/has been in for some time.
My passion is helping to save homeless, abused and exploited animals. By far, my worst habit, is my obsession with political news – hoping this class takes enough of my time to provide a much needed distraction.
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1. Elizabeth Wang-Lee
2.I’ve written 3 scripts and many rewrites on scripts originally authored by other writers. I just finished the second draft of my latest script which has been 3 years in the making. I am on the 3rd draft and hope to complete in the next couple months.
3. I want to write amazing binge worthy tv series. I’m thinking of adapting an age old script and turning it into something new. I feel learning it with AI will help me not only improve my writing leaps and bounds but speed up my writing. I am very slow when it comes to writing.
4. My life was headed for the stars when I was in high school. I wanted to an astronaut. But after three fateful twists in my life, the last one could have resulted me being blasted to kingdom come, I realized the universe had something else in mind for me. So I studied and became an architect and worked on some fascinating buildings, which I still keep my hand in on small projects. I also studied film and then became a production executive in hollywood. I shepherded and made happen a very successful film franchise. While I was an executive, writers (even a few big ones) loved my notes because they were always very clear and constructive. So it was natural for me to turn to writing for myself. What a huge surprise when I found out how difficult it was to translate notes and ideas into a really good script. I have taken a zillion courses and my writing only started to improve when I took my first course here at Screenwriting U.
5. I was in Proseries 72, Binge TV 7, and Writing Incredible Movies 1.
Here’s wishing you all good luck! I look forward to working with y’all.
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Traci Bliss. I took Hal’s basic class year’s back and have reengaged because of the power of what he’s teaching with AI. My focus and published books are historical drama non-fiction. I’m so excited to learn and deeply explore what AI can do with “based on a true story” after recently taking the Marketing with AI class.
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1. Name is Eddie Duran
2. I’ve written 3 features and 2 short stories.
3. I hope to get ahead of the pack when using AI as an assistant.
4. I used to work on a Cruise Ship as a Club DJ.
5. I was in Pro Series many years ago.
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Tell us the following:
1. Name: Martha Manuel
2. How many scripts you’ve written? Working on a 7-episodes Limited Series based on my Book Murder on False River, written a contained script, more Limited Series scripts based on my books Political Treason, and Underwriting is Murder, and now will be working on a Binge Worthy TV AI script.
3. What you hope to get out of the class? The more I go through SU classes the more confident I become as a writer. Did not start writing until I retired. Now that I am writing I consider myself semi-retired.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? Where do I start? When 9/11 hit, I was taking flying lessons (dropped lessons for fear of the “unfriendly skies” 🙂 ), I ran for Louisiana State Senator (didn’t make it, but it became the basis for my first book in which my heroine ran and won State Senator), I was appointed Executive Director for the Governor’s Office of Elderly Affairs (also great book material), I drive a 2019 Corvette convertible (after trading in my 50th Anniversary Edition ‘Vette), and am now looking to make something of myself as a writer!
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. I was in the ProSeries Class, the Master Screenwriter Class, and a few others.
I look forward to working with all of you and am tremendously excited about starting a new venture!!!
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Hi. Patrick McCormick here.
I desire to become functional with BW+AI
I’ve worked with the Kingdom of Hawaii issue since 1990, and now prepare to bring it into a bingeworthy level. With this recent, highly suspect event on Maui in August of 2023, Hawaii is now front and center of the world stage. Having insider information about Hawaii no one else has, which seems so out there it can’t be real, the only way to present this is through a High-Powered series.
I did the BW back in 2018, and now its time to bring it home on the screen
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1. Chuck Pickelhaupt
2. I’ve finished a grand total of zero scripts. I’ve started several – Movie, TV, and even a musical, but I’ve never quite got any over the goal line.
3. I hope to learn how to make AI an interactive writing companion, helping me get through the mental blocks stopping me from completing my scripts.
4. I have a U.S. patent for a card game that simulates the stock market: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110285085A1
5. I’ve taken both the ProSeries and BWTV as well as the comedy course and others.
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Peter Field. Written half a dozen feature scripts and a handful of shorts.
I would like to develop a pilot and be hired to work in the writer’s room.
I live in the great Pacific Northwest… but it’s an easy commute to SoCal.
Over the years, have taken PS (47), BW, and many others.
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1. My name is Robert Livingstone.
2. I’ve written six scripts, one of which is an 8-hour, 8-part limited series; another is a pilot for a 5 season series.
3. I’ve taken both the Bingeworthy TV class and the first AI class. I am interested in seeing and using the prompts that have been created in the context of the BWTV program.
4. I have worked on both sides of the creative/business divide, as a writer and a publisher.
5. I don’t remember the numbers or IDs of the classes I was in. All of the following: Pro Series, Rewrite class, Mini Movie Class, Binge-Worthy Class, and the first AI class.
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How many scripts have I written? I can’t say as I’m old and piddle with the writing a lot. It’s my therapy. BUT, I’m kind of proud of 4 or 5 scripts.
What do you hope to get out of this? I wrote a screenplay that won lots of awards. I hope to turn it into a series and write the pilot with AI. Hopefully this class will help.
Something unique, special or strange about yourself. I’d like to give the Hannibal Lecter answer. “If you knew what was in the food, you wouldn’t even want to eat it.”
What Pro-Series etc. did you take? I think it was Pro Series 23 or something and a lot of other Hal Courses. At one of his workshops, I met Marla Hayes. She was from Canada and after that workshop, she always messaged me and made friend suggestions and asked how I was doing. When I hadn’t heard from her for a while, I researched and sadly found out she died. Just wanted to say a few words in remembrance. A very nice person.
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Marla was a lovely person and so helpful. A great writer, too.
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*I’m Andrew Bailey, and usually go by Andy. I live in New York City.
*I’ve written 2 TV pilots and one feature, none produced. One of them was for a dermatologist to the stars, who was as shallow and ridiculous as you could imagine. But I got experience writing in an area I wasn’t familiar with (and didn’t care much about) and I made him see his world in a different, more absurd way. But he was unwilling to poke fun at his own profession, haha, so we parted ways.
*I’m an AI skeptic with a concept (or story world) that ChatGPT doesn’t understand, so I’m here to see where I can go with that. Hoping to improve my writing along the way.
*I work in the industry, in the art-house realm, in marketing and publicity, and wrote CINEMA NOW for Taschen Books some years back. I have a history of writing about movies.
*I was in the Bingeworthy TV class during the pandemic, and I also took the Thriller class.
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It’s kind of fun being at the end of the list. I see so many familiar names and faces. And quite number of success stories. Proud to be part of the gang.
1. I’m Paige Macdonald.
2. I’ve written over two dozen scripts and 1 TV pilot. I did complete my first writing assignment for a producer (three drafts) last year. I’ve kept my day job. 🙂
3. What you hope to get out of the class? Time is a precious commodity for me these days, so I’m hoping to use AI as my assistant. I want to write and complete projects, while I maintain my breadwinner role, though I dare to dream that writing could one day be that (sufficient) paycheck and career.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I logged over 371 skydives, though I sold my parachute rig back in 2007 when my to-be husband swore he would never, ever join me there. 😂
5. ProSeries 74, MSC 15/16, Rewrite, Contained. I’ll agree with another person’s comment here: my confidence level has vastly increased with each and every passing class. I have even applied the “How to deal with Producers” aspect to my day job and upped my worth in that world significantly in 2 years time. These classes are very helpful and valuable.
Glad to be back!
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Hi all, I’m Phyllis Strong.
I’ve written 9 pilots and 1 feature (I’ve just finished outlining my 2nd).
I hope to learn to use AI to help my brainstorming of concepts, worlds, and solutions for the story problems I will encounter. I like the idea of AI being my writer’s room.
I love to travel, and up until Covid, I had visited 37 countries on 5 continents.
I took the Bingeworthy Class in 2022, it might have been BW16, but I’m not sure. I’ve also taken the Exceptional Scenes and Great Endings classes, but I don’t know if they’re even offered anymore.
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1. Connie Whitmer
2. I’ve written one script
3. I’m working on a suspense thriller using Hal’s screenwriting techniques. I thought I would try to write the TV Series as well.
4. I signed up for what I thought was to be a great camping trip for 30 days in the Southern Utah desert. I had everything I would ever need: a couple of great books, shampoo, hair conditioner, sleeping bag, pad, cute hat, sunglasses, TP paper, suntan lotion, etc. . . .
The first day, they told us to put everything in the back of a truck and we would be getting it later. Later was 30 days later. 30 days in the same clothes, no hat, sunglasses, hairbrush, rubber bands, TP paper . . . eating snakes, sleeping in bat caves, chewing on dead carcass tendons to attach arrowheads we chipped, to bows we made, repelling cold turkey down a several hundred-foot cliff, swept away by flash floods in dry riverbeds, with nothing but a 6-inch pocketknife they gave us. I you ever need someone to start a fire by rubbing two sticks together, in the pouring rain, on the edge of a creek where every cougar, bobcat, wolves, coyote, rattler comes to drink in the evening . . . I’m your girl!
5. I have taken 18 of Hal’s classes. All amazing, including the BWTV.
Here’s the takeaway . . .
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You’re my heroine! I would have died. Really.
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Hi Everyone. my name is Alandra Ortis. I have three unfinished scripts. What I hope to get from this class is a new skill set and knowledge to help me in my future writing projects. I don’t know how unique this is, but I am a huge animal lover. I was an Animal Care Specialist for one of the largest animal rescues for six years. The animals made my job worth the hard work. I took ProSeries 43B about one million years ago. I look forward to this new experience.
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I love hearing we have quite a few animal lovers in this group!
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Friendly people love animals. Everyone at ScreenwritingU is always nice😃.
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Hi everyone! My name is Diane Tunis and though I’ve been unable to take classes for a while, I’ve never lost my love and interest in screenwriting. I don’t remember the BW class I was in, but MSC9 (2017?) strikes a chord. My particular interests relate to the wonderful teachings of Native Americans. Can’t wait to make my ideas come alive. Bye for now.
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Yes. I began my spirit leadership career in native American traditions and my first book was on the sacred four directions. I am so glad you are focusing
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1. George Strakosch
2. One feature and two TV Pilots. And many pieces for stage.
3. I took the BWTV course in 2020 and loved it. I want to become continue to be a better writer and want to use AI to help me become more effective and efficient. And, as classmate Bob Creamer wrote, to gain ‘the ability to brainstorm with ease.’
4. I’ve been writing since I was in grammar school, when I rewrote a school play because I thought the ending was boring.
5. Binge-worthy TV 9
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Hey guys! My name is Bobby Sacher – glad to be aboard!
I’ve written 8? scripts, and am currently working on creating a TV series with a producer, based on their idea.
I’m hoping to learn how to beef up my TV-writing skills, using AI to speed up and deepen my understanding of each step along the way. (and, you know, come out of here with a kick-ass project to pitch!)
Something unique about me… I teach high school ELA now, after being “informed of the move from 7th grade at the end of last year”, and am currently a few weeks ahead of my kids. Tons of fun there.
I’ve done ProSeries 49 (or 50?); MSC 4 and 15, BingeWorthy, and a number of other SU classes to boot. Can’t wait to get started!
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Hi Bobby,
Good to see you again.
Cheers
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Hi, my name is Jeff Tolstad.
I’ve written 4 movie scripts, non sold or optioned…yet
I hope to reignite my writing skills and success in this class after a long hiatus from writing. This idea of using AI to help generate ideas is fascinating and I hope to use it to kick start my next career.
I graduated from PS43 in 2013. Took the Profound, Comedy, ReWrite, Subtext and Thriller classes. Was enrolled in MSC5 in 2015 and got to Phase 3 (writing a new script) when I also started classes to get my MBA from USC. I had to drop out of MSC5 in 2016 as I just could not handle the work load for both courses. After I received my MBA, I was hired as an Associate Dean at the USC School of Medicine, which position I left recently. Prior to that gig, I was a Pediatric Anesthesiologist for 25 years.
Along the road of my life, I have acted on stage in community theater and in 4 low budget indie movies- all as creative outlets during what spare time I had.
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Hi everyone! My name is Lisa Vanco and I’ve written 3 commissioned scripts (2 for Hollywood producers, and one in France), none of which have gone into production, and one documentary that came out in 2012. I have also written a 2-part play in French that was staged in Paris which I then turned into a series.
I am hoping to harness the power of AI in order to create a tailor-made, valuable assistant.
As a Shakespeare scholar, my background as a writer is grounded in all of the principles of dramatic writing used by early modern playwrights, most notably, classical rhetoric. I share my time between Malibu, Paris and Stratford-upon-Avon.
I was in the very first BW class.
I’m delighted to be able to participate fully in the group, as I am currently in Malibu!!
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Hey all, Kevin Ash here. I’ve written a dozen or so screenplays, more stage plays, had several optioned, a few writing assignments, and currently in the middle of producing 2 projects. I’ve taken many SU courses including Pro Series, Incredible Movies, Bingeworthy the first time, been on development teams, and am a Hal champion! I’m a huge Miami Dolphins fan, so loving the sports team life right now. I also teach film and theatre in a private school and I’m doing a deep dive into AI and using it in teaching my classes, so looking forward to getting more familiar with how to get it to behave! 🙂
I am on my 4th career. Started as an actor in NYC, member of SAG/AFTRA, AEA, and DGA. Then became a director and designer in theatre, then an Artistic Director of 2 professional theaters and a film producer, and now teaching. Screenwriting and producing are next and doing so from Hawaii within the next 5 years…
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1. I’m Meg Stout and I’m paying for my daughter, Annie Palmer, to also attend this course because she has awesome screenwriting instincts and I want to be able to collaborate with her. She’ll be here once she gets her login information.
2. How many scripts you’ve written? I’ve written several scripts – around ten?
3. What you hope to get out of the class? I’m so excited to explore how AI can be tasked to be an assistant and also excited to be reminded about elements of this course, which was one of the first ScreenwritingU courses I took.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I got into screenwriting in 2018 to help out a friend who wanted to get back into being a producer. Within a week I had written the first version of the script and after 15 days my script had been sent over to China in search of funding. I’ve spent about 40 years working for the Navy doing research related to submarines. I had at least one colleague who’d read my writing demand why I was working for the Navy instead of writing for a living.
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. I did BWTV starting May 2021 and I was in the final ProSeries course [PS 81].
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1. I’m Annie Palmer.
2. I haven’t written scripts yet.
3. I want to know how to evolve my story ideas into compelling TV mini-series.
4. I only have one hitch hiker’s thumb.
5. Meg wants to be able to collaborate with me on projects. Processes and tools here are copyrighted, so me joining the class seemed the right way to proceed!
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How fun to co create with your mom!
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I bill Kellas have written 7 books some for others 6 for me I’m learning a new language in writing in the wim ,benge Tv and pro.classes
I had to sell my business as I broke my neck and this is my creative outlet
Look forward to trading ideas with you
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i hope your healing is progressing well.
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Hi everyone, I’m Frances Rice.
I have written 25 scripts of various genres, including black history documentaries, some of which I have produced, and a TV series pilot that I wish to elevate to a higher level in this class, using AI.
Currently, I am marketing a science fiction feature-length screenplay that features a black woman superhero and an all-black cast set in a futuristic world with space-age technology.
What is unusual about me is how in my screenwriting, I focus on what inspires me, the black experience.
I have taken multiple ScreenwritingU classes, including the ProSeries, the BWTV and the AI class.
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I love what you are writing about!
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Hi Everyone,
I’m Lin Fuentes. I’ve written and rewritten multiple times 2 screenplays as I try to learn this craft I’ve become addicted to called script writing. Screenwriting U has been and remains instrumental in my learning. I have many ideas, but want to focus on learning from trying different things on these two screenplays to enhance my deeper understanding of writing great screenplays that are entertaining and marketable.
My hope for this course is to learn a new skill set that will attract producers to my scripts.
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Hi everyone,
I’m Kath Hewitt.
I have written scripts for 4 different projects, a bingeworthy TV series, a movie thriller, and 2 unique comedy series that I have written multiple episodes for.
I hope to learn from this class how to leverage the AI technology to elevate my storytelling skills and move from good writer to great writer and get one of my scripts sold and produced.
Something special is that my first bingeworthy TV series pilot “Dangerous Allies” received a Double Recommend when I submitted it for coverage. This was due in large part, to all the great tips I learned in Hal’s Bingeworthy TV class.
I was in the Proseries 54 class, Writing Bingeworthy TV, and several others.
I’m excited to be here!
Kath
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Hi everyone, my name is Karen Tolliver and I have written about 7 scripts now that includes, films, TV show, and commercials. I hope to get out of this class is a much faster process of writing and a way to Unstick myself every time I get stuck. Which has been causing me to pause my writing for long periods of time. One thing unusual about me is I am one of fifty Black Script Supervisors World Wide. I have taken the Binge Worthy TV class twice. I look forward to meeting all of you soon.
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1. Lenore Bechtel
2. I’ve written four scripts, the most recent being with the Writing Incredible Movies class. Now I intend to rewrite the other three.
3. I have both a stage play and a novel than lend themselves well to being series. I hope to develop both with this class.
4. Maybe I’m unusual for having traveled in every state and on every continent except Antarctica, which I viewed from a cruise ship.
5, I’m just now in Module 7 of Writing Incredible Movies, so I’ll be finishing that up while I start this one.
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Hi Everyone!
I’m Jacqueline Murphy and thrilled to be part of this class with you all.
I’ve written 3 scripts and look forward to continue to grow and develop as a writer, filmmaker, producer, director and actress.
I hope to also come out of this with more skills, creativity, confidence and break through and get projects made and paid work.
I always wanted to be an actress and have my RN degree which helped me break into showbiz playing Nurse Thomas on All My Children and from there I was off and running.
I took the ProSeries, BWTV X2 and am alumni.
Look forward to meeting and working with you all!
Warmly,
Jacqueline
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Hi Everyone, I’m Rebecca Jordan. I have written a feature, a couple of shorts and a play. I hope to strengthen my writing skills and creativity using AI as an assist to my voice. I am a veteran stage actor and sing in a Tom Petty tribute band. I have taken 30 day screenplay, pro rewrite and binge worthy classes. Also just signed up for the containment class. Looking forward to this!!
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1. Ace Chapman
2. I’ve written like 12 crappy scripts, 2 semi-decent scripts and 1 pretty darn good one. Also was like 50% done with a binge worthy Pilot.
3. I want to “FINALLY” start and finish the Binge Class and meeting fellow writers and learning to be “YOUR” biggest fan!
4.Currently I’m a Ghost Tour guide and what I’ve learned while doing my tours is mind boggling and I believe help me as a writer!
5. I was in Proseries, Master Class 8, 10 & 11, Binge Worthy classes 2 times and 30 day screenplay, writing contained movie…
Once again I really look forward to going on this journey with fellow writer’s/dreamers!
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I’m Zeke Farrow
I’ve written over 30 scripts.
I want to improve my use of AI as a writing assistant, to help me work faster and more creatively.
I grew up on a farm in a town of 500 people in VT.
Pro Series 33. I also took WIM and the TV Bootcamp and the Bingeworthy TV classes – and many others.
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1. Hello my SU, family. My name is Deni B. Sher.
2. I’ve written approximately 8 scripts… maybe 10. I have one under contract that I co-wrote with Ferdinand Gernandt, who I met in ProSeries class. I have optioned two more, however Covid affected one of them and the other happened before strike, so when actors are available hopefully that one will be produced. I started studying with SU about 8 years ago and everything I know is from SU and I have a degree in English.
3.I hope to learn to us AI like an A-list writer and I hope to acquire a love for writing for TV, as I prefer writing features.
4. I have traveled to 136 countries during my 20 years with my late husband, Arthur.
5. I have taken many classes, ProSeries I think 6 & 8, Profound Screenwriting, Binge Worthy 4 TV, Comedy, Mini-Movie Method, Subtext, Maximum Entertainment Class, Action Class, Writing a script in 30 days class… “The more I learn, the more I’ll gain!!”
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1. Brent McKnight
2. How many scripts you’ve written? Over 10. Some good, some bad, some great.
3. What you hope to get out of the class? How to create a show that everyone MUST watch.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I’m an air force brat, my father was in the military.
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. MSC-15
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Hi all. My name is Pat Semler
I’ve written a ridiculous number of scripts, closing in on 20 features and multiple episodes for my television dramas. I’m concentrating on 4 features to promote at the moment. A short script was filmed last year and premiered at the Hamilton Film Festival and CenFlo Film Festival earlier this year. Presently I’m working with the Palm Springs Women in Film & Television on developing my winning short script into full production.
I’m very excited to learn more about this AI business. I hear such vitriol, fear and condemnation of using this program that I believe knowing its abilities and shortcomings, and there are shortcomings, can only be beneficial to my screenwriting.
I’m closing in on 25 years at an Orlando theme park where I graduated from costume dresser to Pyro technician for the premier stunt show for 19 of those years. Setting out the fireworks was cool enough. Lighting a performer on fire for the finale was epic, and very seriously taken by all involved to keep our people safe. Happy to report we never had a major injury from a fire burn.
I attended ProSeries 44 and several classes over the years, culminating in the AI classes that absolutely blew me away. I’m looking forward to expanding a couple of feature ideas into binge worthy mini-series.
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My name is Lee Tidball.
I’ve written probably around a dozen scripts (and endless rewrite versions of most). Two have been optioned before, 3 have had shopping agreements signed for them. I’m working on my 3rd book adaptation. Several scripts/novels that I’ve written have been write-for-hire projects.
In this class, I hope to learn how to us AI to enhance and speed up the process of devising a marketable TV series concept, writing amazing marketing materials, and a killer pilot script. Besides this all-new project, I hope this class will help me do a better job of my current book adaptation also, which will be written as a limited TV series.
I’ve started and successfully run two non-profit organizations for elementary-junior high age kids, one a track and field team that I coached for over 20 seasons, and another, a children’s community theater company, where I was the director for 4 musicals that we put on for the public for 4 years in the summer.
I was in ProSeries 15 way back in 2006 or 8 or something, I was in the 2nd Master of Screenwriting Certificate class in 2014-15 (now replaced by Writing Incredible Movies), and I took the 2nd Binge Worthy TV class.
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Hey all! I’m Julie Kenner (I write primarily as J. Kenner)
2. About a dozen, some with co-writers; I mostly write books, but currently have a writing assignment for a feature and a series based on my books in development with P+Can (so want to focus on honing TV-writing skills)
3. I’ve been using AI for ideation for a while (like a writing group that lives in my computer that doesn’t mind if I brainstorm at 2am) so I want to dial down on how best to use AI and dig into developing a show based on some of my IP
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you?
I had surgery about an hour after my Civil Procedure final in law school. Had to beg the doc to let me wait until I had taken the final, because no way was I wasting all that studying for something, comparatively speaking to a 1L, as trivial as removing a spleen!
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in.
I don’t recall the number, but have done BW, MSC and others
Happy to be here!
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Hello Everyone!
1: I’m Sassy (Susan) Chan.
2. How many scripts you’ve written? About ten (features, a couple specs, 1 binge worthy, a couple short plays, a short musical.)
3. I want to get be a more masterful prolific writer, and sell my pilot(s). Excited to share feedback with fellow alumni and conquer AI.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? Animal lover/ cat slave, army vet, played percussion in H.S. band, love astrology, get premonitions in my dreams and nightmares. Recovering chocoholic.
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. PS29, MSC8, BW4, etc.
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You sound wonderful. I am an astrologer too- I love animals too and have 3 dogs 1 cat and 3 birds at the moment lol
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Eclipse, tropical, Chinese, or Vedic astrology?
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Hello, writers! I’m Veleka, now residing in New Orleans. I’ve been studying with Hal since June, 2010, and taken every class he’s offered, and I think I am finally catching on as to how to craft a winning script! I spent the first two decades of my life as a professional singer, starting at age eight singing radio jingles for Dixie Maid Sugar. The second two decades I was a professional actress on Broadway, had lead and supporting roles in movies, prime time, and fifteen years starring on soaps. The next two decades have been spent as an acting coach, narrating audio books for Audible, and learning to write. I’ve written 14 screenplays and produced most of them with my acting students as the cast, and I’m in production right now with another one, a Web series this time. I’ve studied with McKee, Truby, Hauge, Vogler, and almost everyone else, but I keep taking Hal’s classes because he’s a genius. After meeting Geoff Fairbanks at one of Hal’s Career Launch events in Burbank, Geoff suggested I add how I taught acting classes inside of San Quentin prison in San Francisco, and I can now handle any kind of guff from knaves in the biz. 😉
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Hello Veleka, nice to see you again. I was in the ProSeries with you a few years ago.
Did you live in N.O. back then? I was just thinking about the Fairmont Hotel when I met a professional accordionist in Taormina, Sicily, over the weekend. I was telling the story of being in Sazerac restaurant (now gone, I think) when an accordionist and tenor entered the room. Being a musician, I expected the worst. But they were wonderful!
I haven’t been back to ‘Nawlins since Katrina and I hope it has regained some of its former glory and not been too consumed by the big corporate interests.
I have been down the Robert McKee and John Truby paths, not to mention Blake Snyder (RIP.) I don’t usually mention them here as I think it gives Hal the heeby-jeebies.
Look forward to working with you on this AI journey.
Griff Lambert
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Hi, I’m Benita Saxen.
I have written a couple scripts and have many swirling around.
My intention with this class is to break out of my shell and be seen with my writing. Time stops when I spend time writing; my heart stops when I think of releasing it to the wild.
I have a business background and this year, started my own bookkeeping company with the intention of dedicating more time to creating while manifesting cashflow.
I seek to feel the fun in life. Grandma always said that something good can come out of something bad, and I took that to heart. I’m often heard saying, “Well, that’s going in the screenplay; I’ll change the names.”
I started Polynesian dancing when I was 7 years old and embraced the Aloha spirit early on with a Tahitian, “Ia Orana” (yo-rah-nah) kick. Stitch: 626 is my Patronus and I love witty humour in stories. I am from Canada, BC, and am okay when the spelling of squiggly lines under my words, as it reminds me that I’m from the North. And yes, Winter is coming, but not before Hallowe’en.
I have taken ProSeries 46, Comedy, Horror, AI for Screenwriting. I just enrolled in “How to Get Paid Writing Assignments.” Excited and dedicated for this chapter.
Thank you for sharing in this writing community.
Kindly,
Benita
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1. Pablo Sternbach
2. I’ve written seven scripts. One of them, co-written, has been produced (an Indie film).
3. I hope to improve my writing and create a new TV Series, learning how to use AI as an assistant and how to make the process quicker.
4. I’m from Argentina, and I’ve lived in Madrid and Barcelona (Spain) for many years. I’ve made more than 15 experimental/art installations; I used to teach acting (I love directing actors).
5. I’ve been in MSC14 and BWTV Bootcamp 5.
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Nice to meet you, Pablo.
I love Barcelona, have visited three times and I had the ambition to live there when I read a story about a Londoner who commuted on Ryan Air at less than the cost of a flat in London! But Italy won out and I now have a viletta in Sicily.
I look forward to this AI journey with everyone here at SU.
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Hi Everyone,
I’m Maureen from New York, and I’m excited to be joining you all in this class!
I’ve been taking and loving online classes here at Screenwriting U over the last couple of years. I’m just finishing up the Pilot script for the show I developed in a previous BW class, and I’m chomping at the bit to start a new one here.
I’ve written 13 screenplays and 1 script for a TV series. 3 scripts optioned and worked as a writer for hire on 6 screenplays and the TV script. One of the writer-for hire screenplays was produced.
Here we go!
Maureen
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1. Name: Brian Bays
2. How many scripts you’ve written?: I’ve written twelve feature scripts and one pilot.
3. What you hope to get out of the class?: I’ve gotten feedback that my feature scripts may be “too complex”, so I hope to figure out how to have AI help me write more Bingeworthy TV so my “extra characters” can have a life.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you?: I play guitar in a Rock ‘n Roll cover band with my two sons (19 and 17) on piano and drums.
5. I was in MSC 15 and 16, ProSeries 27, Bingeworthy? (2018/2019), and lots and lots of other classes.
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Hi Brian – I’m a fellow musician. I had the idea of starting a Geezer band back in the San Francisco Bay area where I lived, but that never happened. Maybe I’ll try it again in Sicily – there seem to be plenty of Old Codgers around with musical talent. But what do I do with six accordions??
Looking forward to this AI journey with everyone.
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My name is Charles Jessen. I’ve written eight screenplays and one TV pilot with a pitch bible. Though I took the Hal’s AI seminar back in July, and the Bingeworthy TV class five years ago, I hope to get an update on the Bingeworthy methods and learn how to specifically apply AI research to the TV series writing process. I’m polishing my last two screenplays at the same time so it’s going to be a busy couple months. Retired pretty much from my advertising career — most recently writing/producing/directing TV commercials and videos at my own production company. Have taken/audited many ScreenwritingU classes over the years… most recently “Unstoppable,” “Write a screenplay in 30 days” and “Professional Re-write Class.” Looking forward to this class.
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Hello, I’m Jennifer Miller.
I’ve written just under ten scripts.
My goal for this class is to acquire a dependable, step-by-step process that I can consistently rely on to craft thrilling narratives. I’m excited about the prospect of developing a reliable blueprint for mapping out these complexities.
Unique, special, strange, or unusual about me – perhaps this is one or many of these things – In 2017, a year after completing a graduate degree in screenwriting, I was feeling pretty lost and disheartened with my life and career. So, one day, I made the choice to slay the professional screenwriting dragon with a clear head, armed with clarity of mind, body, and spirit, and I quit drinking and partying like a rockstar. And I have never looked back. What I’ve learned – sobriety is rewarding, graduate school not so much. Also I love writing, and it’s finally becoming fun for me again. I hope the same for all of you.
Taking a cue from Cheryl, I’m excited to collaborate with each of you on this incredible screenwriting adventure.
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1. Frank Ishizaki
2. Somewhere around ten features, 2 tv pilots.
3. My goal is to improve my writing process, including the business side.
4. Something unique, interesting… I’m from Guam. Born and raised.
5. I was in Pro series 44… that was a long time ago. Binge Worthy, not sure which one, but maybe 5 or 6 years ago…
grateful to be in the class with you all,
Frank
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1. Matt Sharp
2. How many scripts you’ve written? 10
3. What you hope to get out of the class? Refresh on BWTV with AI now integrated
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I was born Hard of Hearing
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in.
I was in all three. Don’t remember the numbers, but BW was about 2 years ago now.
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1. Casandra McCottrell
2. I have written several TV scripts during my college years but that was ages ago.
3. AI sounds exciting. I am looking to use AI to assist me with brainstorming and churning out scripts faster. The idea of using AI as an assistant piqued my interest.
4. Back in my college days, I once spent an entire weekend off the grid, writing a script in just sixteen hours, and disconnecting from all media – the internet, TV, and even unplugging my phone.
5. No idea. I’ve taken a number of classes including BW TV.
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Aloha, fellow talented writers,
1. My name is Natalie; “Natalia” was a mistake on my passport, but it hardly seems worth the hassle to rectify. :0) I’m Canadian, who’ve chosen to call Honolulu, Hawaii home.
2. With eight scripts completed (cue “Fade Out”), several in the developmental pipeline, and a handful adapted into three TV pilots—following the advice of industry experts involved in my projects—there’s an overwhelming work-in-progress flow, and a tremendows lack of time.
3. The advent of AI was a game-changer for me, as I am an ESL writer, and especially in the exhaustive research required for my TV series. I’m truly grateful for this incredible opportunity, eagerly ready to propel my projects towards their final stages.
4. For over three decades, I’ve charted my own course, excelling in the establishment and management of successful enterprises, including my very own film production company. A seasoned Executive Producer, boasting a portfolio of over 300 financed, produced, and globally distributed features, docu, and TV series, is poised to debut my inaugural mystery thriller feature at Cannes.
5. ProSeries 50B, Writing Incredible Movies, MSC4, Binge Worthy TV, and many, many more.
I’m looking forward to working with and getting to know you all!
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Thanks, Sunil. Looking forward. 🙂
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I have written 2 screenplays and 3 TV pilots. Just completed the pitch bible for a series. That was much harder than writing a script. Have 3 other concepts on the back burner.
By delving into AI, I hope to improve brainstorming and be able to write faster. I took the original Binge Worthy course and will use this one as a refresher.
I have a long career as a film editor. Love to travel, love dogs and other critters. I worked with Sonny Grosso, one of the detectives The French Connection was based on.
Other ScreenwritingU courses I’ve taken include Thriller, Horror, Subtext and Writing Assignments.
Looking forward to learning, sharing and having fun with all of you.
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1. Name? Jamie
2. How many scripts you’ve written? 7 scripts and 0 tv pilots
3. What you hope to get out of the class? A usable pilot.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I can recite the alphabet backwards. Useful for keeping focus when tired of swimming and sobriety tests, although I have not had a use for the later yet. LOL
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. It was a long time ago, but if I remember correctly PS 18.
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Hi Everyone, First. I want to preface this by saying that I posted all this when I first joined the class but couldn’t find it. So, I am re-writing it and posting it again.
My name is Alandra Ortis; I have three unfinished scripts as of this date. Life and work keep getting in my way. I hope to acquire new knowledge and insight to help my future endeavors.
I am a huge animal lover and worked as a Dog Care Specialist at a well-known rescue for six
years until COVID-19 hit. Then, the world changed. I recently had a total knee replacement, and now I am part superhuman –well, at least my knee is. 😆
I was in ProSeries 43B and have been in many classes with ScreenwritingU since 2012–but recently, I started back up with the AI Classes. I met a lot of like-minded writers back then and hope to meet new ones now. I look forward to a new era in writing with all of you!
Alandra
PS If there are two of these posts now you will know why. 😀
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1. Name: julio tumbaco
2. How many scripts you’ve written: 5
3. What you hope to get out of the class: the other 50% of the knowledge that I didn’t learn from the first BW TV course- lol
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you: i think i’m perfect (that’s probably unique, lol)
5. What ProSeries (PTE 20008, PT2009, msc4 & msc15) Writing Incredible Movies (not yet), or Binge Worthy TV class (Fall 2019) you were in.
I look forward to working with you all!
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Hi, I’m Noree Victoria.
I’ve written 3 scripts, one has been optioned.
I hope to elevate my writing skills with AI.
Something unique: I was recruited by the CIA after completing my Master’s Degree with a 4.0 GPA (they came to my school to meet with me) but I declined.
I did Bingeworthy TV 9 and MSC 16.
*I won’t be able to attend every live class but I’ll catch the recordings.
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Hello TV Writers!!!
1. I am Thai Loe
2. I’ve written 4 features, 2 TV pilots, and 8 episodes of an audio drama.
3. Hope for Class: Kick my TV writing into higher gear.
4. About Me: I was obsessed with computers as a child in the 70s… I used to code computer games on a TI994A home computer for my friends to play. It’s so exciting to be alive in this world to watch the growth of computers over the last 50 years.
5. Prior courses include: ProSeries 59 & Binge-Worthy TV 2017
So excited to be in this group!
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Hello all, I am Storm. Apologies for getting on the class so late. Sudden death in the family took me away for a bit. But I want to make the determination to get my head back in the game. I hope I can get caught up with everyone.
2. I have written 2 features (drama) and working on several T.V. series (serial killer, a comedy musical, and dramedy on the road)
3. I hope to learn the aspects of A.I. that I can use to help me with a “bible” and put together a full package for potential producers. I have a lot of experience working on sets (Film/TV), and editing film. However, I have always been a writer and really want together my stuff out there.
4. Something unique: I am a skier who loves to sing on the mountain 😀
5. What ProSeries: Writing Incredible Movies, Binge Worthy TV bootcamp, Character Mastery, Writing Incredible Movies.
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Hello,
I was traveling this past week, so I’m late to this forum, but better late than never!
1. Mark Boeder
2. I’ve written four feature scripts; no TV pilots
3. I had never considered — and have no training in — writing for TV/streamers, so I really want to learn a new set of skills.
4. I grew up on a dairy farm and spent my childhood doing chores (while playing movies in my head).
5. I was in a “Mastering the Thriller” screenwriting course several years ago.
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Hi everyone,
My name is Amechi Ngwe. I’ve written over 20 features and am closing in on 10 tv pilots.
I’m hoping to learn how to use AI effectively to help me create some new projects and get them finished quickly. I’m also hoping to use it to finish projects that I usually burn out on.
I was in PS 41, MSC 4, and Binge Worthy TV 4 I believe as well.
Good luck everyone!
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. David Milelr
2. Written over 50 scripts.
3. I’m hoping to greatly speed up my process of developing a solid pilot and TV series concept.
4. Something unusual about me is that I’ve had a European movie production of one of my specs, with the director and crew on location and stars committed, hanging in limbo for three months while the producers scramble to lock up the money.
5. MSC 10, Bingeworthy in 2018.
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1. Peter Symons
2. I have finished 7 or 8 scripts. I have started and abandoned literally dozens. I’m writing a news script based on an original idea from the BW Bootcamp.
3. I want to be able to develop a pilot, series bible that is unique and intriguing.
4. Something unique about me is that I’ve spent my career working in energy. My pilot is about climate change from that perspective.
5. I’m putting everything on hold until I finish this course.
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Hey. I’m Robert. I’ve written a dozen scripts and a book or series to go with each. Been using AI for nearly a year and am thrilled to have a technology that’s easy for a non-tech writer like me to use. I’ve taken many courses with Hal, and feel Bingeworthy is the best. Adding AI makes it spectacular. Good luck to all!
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1. I’m Jenn Quintenz.
2. I’ve been a staff writer on three hour-long TV shows (most well-known is MTV’s TEEN WOLF), and I’ve written many features, novels, and graphic novels.
3. I hope to learn some great brainstorming strategies and increase my writing speed. Also, it would be awesome to come out of this class with a brilliant new pilot.
4. Well, for the past five months, my husband, 12-year-old son, 9-year-old son, and two dogs have been living in one room while our house was torn down and rebuilt. It’s been surprisingly easier than I anticipated, and we all still like each other.
5. I’ve taken the ProSeries and Binge Worthy TV classes, as well as Thrillers, Horror, and a few others.
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Tell us the following:
1. Name: Jeanine
2. How many scripts you’ve written: 5
3. What you hope to get out of the class: Fresh ideas and techniques for templating writing
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you: Animal trainer for film/TV 16 years
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. Binge Worthy
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1. Name? Matthew Frendo
2. How many scripts you’ve written? Too many to count
3. What you hope to get out of the class? To learn how to create TV better, since I’ve mainly worked on features, and how to use AI in the right way.
4. Something unique, special, strange or unusual about you? I’ve always been really into horror, but just started focusing on that genre recently.
5. What ProSeries, Writing Incredible Movies, or Binge Worthy TV class you were in. The last ProSeries class to be held. I forget which Binge Worthy number I was in, but it was a few years back.
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1. Michael L Harris
2. I’ve written 12 shorts, a couple of online shows for YouTube, and adapted 3 novels for the screen.
3. What you hope to get out of the class? A better understanding of how to create BW series from several ideas I already have as well as how to generate new ones more efficiently and especially marketable concepts.
4. Something unique about me? I grew up in a funeral home.
5. I’ve been in or am in: Thriller Class with AI, WIM, Creating Characters for Actors, AI Marketing classes.
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My name is Mary J. Andrews. I’m working on my second script and would like to turn my YA Paranormal Science Fiction novels (series of 5) The Fireborn Chronicles into 2 streaming series. I have taken Professional Rewrite class, The 30 day Script class, and the Writing Binge-worthy TV class. I am taking the Alumni version now in hopes of learning how to properly use AI.
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I am Sunil Batra, I have done MSC class in 2015 and after that I join various small courses. my purpose with the third screenplay was to understand the meaning of subtext. I realized that its expression of various emotions.
Actually, I gone through reading and listening different books, and videos of religion various question arises who God is and how this world is established, and which direction are we moving? I tried to write a screenplay, but one incident took 50pages. To do justice I thought I should move towards Tv shows. with AI binge worthy TV show. can do justice to the script.
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Hello to my ScreenwritingU family! I started taking classes ten years ago at SU. I knew zero about screenwriting at the time, but had a degree in English and a background as an actress on stage doing children’s theater in my 30s, and was the owner/president of a computer company for 14 years. I Feel blessed to have found SU! I have taken just about every class offered as I believe the only thing people can’t take away from you is knowledge! I have written about 8-9 scripts over the years. I have about 6 with recommends from a script consultant. I have 3 options and 2 scripts are in pre-production. Covid ruined my first option… timing is everything.
I am taking AI to help me think out of the box and enhance ideas. It amazes me how fast AI works. There’s no doubt this class will take our writing to the next level.
Something unique about me is that during my marriage of 20 years, my husband took me to 136 countries. He literally gave me the world before passing away in 2019. He was always the wind beneath my wings and he still is….
I can’t wait to get to know more of you. I have made many life-long friends in these classes and without help from other writers I wouldn’t be where I am today!! Thank you. You know who you are!
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