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I'm going to be dropping a treatment or script into the Primal Forge GPT and using it as a walk through on how to build powerful characters. Any volunteers? Any guinea pigs out there? Also, if anyone hasn't tried the Primal Forge GPT, it's gotten rave reviews. You can read about it here and try it out. I'd love to know your thoughts and insights you develop with it! Primal Forge GPT Meanwhile I need a script or story or scribbles on a napkin to run through! HMU! Or drop them here. Thx! David

Good morning, Forge. Here's some great stories about writers breaking through in the last week or so: - Stephanie Ahn Spent 8 Years on Her First Feature. Sony Pictures Classics Just Bought It. — Stephanie Ahn wrote and directed Bedford Park, a story about a Korean American woman caught between family obligation and identity. It premiered at Sundance, won the Special Jury Award for Debut Feature, and Sony Pictures Classics picked it up. Their words: "the confidence of a master." She found her lead actress in Korea six years ago and rehearsed over Zoom for months before they ever shot a frame. Eight years from blank page to Sundance stage. That's not a slow career. That's a writer who refused to let go of the story she needed to tell. - Adrian Chiarella: From Editing Room to Neon's Seven-Figure Deal — Chiarella spent years as a film editor, working under Baz Luhrmann. Then he started directing shorts. His first, Touch, came in 2014. His second, Black Lips, in 2018. His third, Dwarf Planet, in 2021. Each one a little bigger, a little bolder. Then he wrote Leviticus, a queer social horror, developed through VicScreen's Originate initiative. It premiered in Sundance's Midnight section. Neon bought it for seven figures. A decade of shorts. Then the feature lands. That's how this works for most people. You keep making things until the right thing finds the right moment. - Ramzi Bashour Grew Up in Beirut. His Debut Feature Just Got Acquired at Sundance. — Bashour is Syrian-American, raised in Lebanon, moved to Indiana after 2006. He wrote Hot Water about an American kid and his Lebanese mom on a road trip west after the kid gets expelled. It's personal. He was a Sundance Fellow three years running (2022, 2023, 2024) developing this script. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces." The film debuted in U.S. Dramatic Competition and Rich Spirit acquired it. Three years of development. One story he couldn't not write.

It was a solid time. Everyone is making progress. We talked about unpacking our stories and how to do that in an effective way that doesn't let all the tension out of our story. Killing our darlings was another topic, and learning to be ruthless with our scripts for the sake of making them pop. Making sure our characters are well-rounded before anything ever happens. and just the positive energy of a group of writers in the story together. A shout-out to first-timer on the sprint calls @Tasha Kelly see you all soon!

Apologies for the so many posts. Let me know if I'm talk'n too much. I have a gorgeous scriptment. (expository story that is 'scriptish'.) I'm rewriting the scriptment in it's entirety to be cinema worthy. Suggestions on actionable measures I may employ to do that?