Thanks to all who showed up and are putting in the work to truly level up. I’m on my way to UC Santa Cruz to take my son on a college tour. Will post the sessions tonight! Meanwhile, what are your goals for the rest of the week?

I've now read 3 other Forge members' scripts that i believe are really good at just getting to the point in their Action. I know there's more of you out here. My ask? How would you economize the following Action segment? -------------------------- She turns and sprints back towards the office. Jacob continues walking, his drink in hand, almost smiling as he walks past the now empty therapy rooms. At the elevator, he looks down an adjoining darkened hallway. The entrance is blocked by a cable attached to two stanchions. Jacob looks around then stealthily slips over the cable into the hallway. He’s the only person on the floor. It’s dark other than light coming from a frosted window on a door near the end. He slowly moves towards it. As he gets closer, the sound of faint voices is heard. Screaming voices.

Meant to put this up earlier, but it's been a week! Zoom: Premier Coaching - Tuesday 10 a.m. Pacific time Last week was packed too, and we met several new members, including @Temycka Carpenter Carlton who brought pages in for the first time and got a wonderful reception for her very sleekly written female-driven pilot about the secret world of private aviation. She's taking expertise from her own life and converting it to compelling characters in a fantastic setting, the feels fresh and exciting to explore. There's a lot of talk about "world building" in film and tv writing, and her example of how to open a script was a perfect example of efficient, visual world building, that doesn't beat the reader over the head with excessive detail. Looking forward to seeing compelling work from more new writers, who will be welcomed by the veterans around here with open arms, just as Temycka was. When I see the lights go on in someone's eyes like it did with her and @Chris Dyer and @Chad Desrochers and @Lena Lieuvin @Godfrey Virgile and @Krystel Biasotti when they come in for their first reads, it's just exciting for me personally, and makes all the work that goes into this feel deeply worthwhile! So, thanks to all of you for bravely showing up! Looking forward to more! -D

@Alan Brash @David Hinnebusch @Chris Dyer We talked about this in the New Member Coaching today... a YouTube short that broke out and was part of what lead Danny and Michael Philippou aka Rackaracka to break into making mainstream horror like the fantastically dark Talk to Me. This is intense, so you've been warned!

Love the idea of the Pats starting yet another much-hated dynasty. But also love me some Sam Darnold come back story. So I'll be good however this game goes. Predictions: Pats. Crucial mistake cost Darnold in the 4th Quarter. Situational football rules the day. But... this takes me back to The Goat, TB12. And the horrible start vs Atlanta, years ago. They fell behind 28-3, before storming back and winning in overtime. And maybe nothing looked worse than when Brady threw a pick 6 when they were down 14, to let the score go to 21-0. But he gathered himself and his team. "Come on now, laser focus! We gotta play harder! Tougher!" And led the greatest comeback in sports history. I've often felt this way when battling a script. Trying to figure out the way forward. Feeling lost, but knowing it's not in my DNA to give up and being determined to fight my way through. I genuinely look to Brady as a model for that. Selected 199th in the draft. 4th quarterback on the roster, behind the first QB ever to sign a $100M contract. But showing up everyday in practice and staying late, with the mentality that this would be his team one day and his work ethic would make that inevitable. I'm curious, who's your model for the way you work, for how you move forward when things get tough? Oh, and what's your pick? I'm going 27-24 Pats. Vrabel's got this team dialed in. I could be wrong, but even if I am, with the mentality Brady set down for that organization, even a loss will be a learning experience on their way back to greatness IMHO. Then again, I'm the same guy who was at a huge Super Bowl party years ago and everybody was making fun of me when the Pats were down 28-3. And I said, we've got them right where we want them. Then I might have turned around and flipped them all a double bird when the Pats won. I'm not saying I did. But I'm not saying I didn't either. Go Pats!