I’ve written films for every major studio. Worked with some of the biggest stars on projects both huge and small. No film school yet somehow my career exceeded anything I had planned. I were to coach you personally, what would you most want me to help you with?

Yesterday, I received news about being selected as a finalist in the Oxford Script Awards. The same day, I received an email from the Director of the World Rugby Museum updating me about the article he is writing for their publication next month about my dad, his rugby jacket, and the 100 items from my collection of California rugby history from 1906 to 2026 that I donated to them last fall. Talk about Divine Timing! Inspired by @Matthew Lutz talk on Wednesday, and his answer about sending a follow-up thank you email, I sent an email thanking the Oxford Script Awards and letting them know about the collection in Twickenham, London, if they wanted to see the jacket in person. This is the email I received back, and I am beyond excited for the response! As Matthew discussed, connections are how to make things happen! So fingers crossed that my email has inspired them to take a deeper dive into my script as they make their final decision for the Best US Screenplay! So just do it! Send thank you emails, let them get to know your personality and your story deeper! Doors can open in such unique ways! Oxford Script Awards Thu, Jun 25, 9:03 PM (12 hours ago) to me Hi Thia, Thank you so much for reaching out and sharing this incredibly touching story with us! First of all, a massive congratulations on "A Trainer's Daughter" being selected as a Finalist in the Best US Screenplay category, an especially huge achievement for your first-ever screenplay! What a beautiful and serendipitous update regarding the World Rugby Museum and your father's jacket. It adds such a profound, tangible layer of meaning to your script, and it’s wonderful to hear that his legacy is being honored in such a significant way at Twickenham. It truly sounds like divine timing! We are so proud to celebrate your work in our 2026 festival. We wish you the absolute best of luck in the next round of judging, as well as with the upcoming museum publication! Cheers,

HEY FORGERS! This week's Business Talk is going to be 🔥FIRE!🔥. Special guest @Matthew Lutz will be sharing a method he developed called SCRIPT REQUEST SPRINT: 50 script requests in 30 days. DO NOT MISS THIS!!! "This isn't a craft course and nobody's giving notes on your second act. This is marketing: targeted, repeatable, and built to get producers requesting your pages." JOIN US on WED, JUNE 24, 10am PST. Link to Zoom call: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86850227314?pwd=Z9bwsCa7KTM0UTWYRaL5FOE8MzQRxa.1 Here's what to expect... SCRIPT REQUEST SPRINT: 50 script requests in 30 days. You wrote the script. It's good. It's also collecting dust on your computer, unread. The hard part was never the writing. It's getting the right people to ask for it. This is a 30-day system for making that happen at volume. Not one lucky break. A machine you can run again and again. This isn't a craft course and nobody's giving notes on your second act. This is marketing: targeted, repeatable, and built to get producers requesting your pages. You'll learn how to build: 1. A target list worth pitching — real producer emails, plus a LinkedIn pipeline of producers 2. Assets that get opened — a query letter that lands, a profile that reads like a working writer, swipe files, and a tracking tool so you don't lose track of all of your script requests and interested readers 3. A daily outreach engine — 50 sends a day, scheduled, tracked, and followed up with 4. The discipline to run it — until the requests come in, and then until one of them turns into a deal We all want to get read. But smoking "hopium" alone won't cut it. This is how you build a tactical and practical system that gets you read... on repeat. This system is about volume. It's not glamorous. But it works. ABOUT MATTHEW LUTZ • Matthew Lutz is a produced screenwriter who works on assignment • The project he's going to share with you in this case study ranked in the top 1% of Coverfly's Red List (out of 50,000+ projects)

Hey Forgers We’ve got a big week coming up inside The Writer’s Forge. If you’re new here, welcome. We’ve had new writers joining every day, so if you see a new face in the community, say hi. And if you’re new, don’t be shy. Introduce yourself. Jump into a live session. That’s where this place really comes alive. The live rooms are the difference here. This isn’t just another content library. It’s writers showing up, putting pages on the table, getting sharper, getting unstuck, and building momentum together. Here’s what’s coming up this week: Monday at 10am PT ✅ Coworking Session Start the week by getting words on the page. Bring whatever you’re working on and get some focused writing time in with the group. Tuesday at 10am PT ✅ Premium Coaching Premium members bring pages, scenes, pitches, questions, and stuck points. We work the material live. Wednesday at 10am PT 🔥 LET’S TALK BUSINESS: SCRIPT REQUEST SPRINT w/ Matthew LutzThis week’s Business Talk is going to be fire. Special guest Matthew Lutz will be sharing a method he developed called: SCRIPT REQUEST SPRINT: 50 Script Requests in 30 Days This is not a craft course. Nobody’s giving notes on your second act. This is marketing: targeted, repeatable, and built to get producers requesting your pages. If you want to understand how to get your work in front of the right people, do not miss this. Thursday at 10am PT ✅ New Member Orientation / CoachingIf you’re new, this is the session to come to. Bring your questions, your pages, your pitch, your confusion, your half-formed idea — whatever you’ve got. We’ll help you find the next right step. Friday at 12pm PT ✅ Premium Coaching More live feedback, table reads, story work, and coaching for Premium members. You can find links all events on the calendar here: https://www.skool.com/the-writers-forge/calendar Also coming this week: I’ll be posting Monday morning with updates on the Nicholl Fellowship reopening/deadlines, plus some thoughts on recent spec script breakthroughs, the pitch deck tools I’m building for members, and upcoming pitch sessions.

A weekly call since we have so many new folks signing up. This will give you a lay of the land and the best ways for you to take advantage of this community and level up! Also... you'll meet cool new people and stop having to face the blank page alone!