Welcome to The Writer's Forge. This community exists for one reason: to help you stop spinning and start finishing. If you're here, you're ready to write work that matters—but everyone's starting line looks different. So let's define yours. Is your "zero" a drawer full of unfinished scripts? Years of consuming craft advice with nothing to show for it? A finished draft you don't know how to rewrite? Or are you staring at the blank page wondering if you even have a story worth telling? Here we're focused on one thing: real execution. We don't teach formulas. We don't worship structure. We help you inhabit your characters, diagnose what's broken, and finish scripts that hit audiences on a gut level—not scripts that read like every other Save the Cat clone. Here's your first move: Post your introduction and share: - What does your "Zero" look like right now? - What story are you trying to tell (or what's the script you're working on)? - What's the biggest thing holding you back? - What excites you most about becoming the writer you know you can be? Pro Tip: This post unlocks visibility. Every comment and like earns points and helps you rise on the leaderboard. Top members get priority access to Hot Seat coaching calls. You belong here. Now make yourself known. 👇 Drop your intro below. And after you've done this, weigh in on What Courses YOU Want to See next. Your voice will be an important guide in the tools I build out in 2026. Welcome!

This community has been such a surprising and great gift this year! Just want you know how much I appreciate you all and wishing you a wonderful holiday with loved ones! Big things coming! Keep on the lookout here and in the Classroom section! Merry Christmas!

Great night finishing off the Building Great Characters/Emotional Authorship Seminar. I really appreciate the focus you all brought to the table. But you’re not off the hook yet. Here’s the final exercise: Pick a bank robbery scene from any movie you like — one that’s supposed to be clean. No chaos. No heroics. The plan is solid. It should work. Now insert your main character from last session’s homework into that situation. This is not about crime, violence, or writing a cool scene. The bank robbery is just a pressure container — a neutral system with rules. The point is to see what happens when: - your character tries their usual coping strategy - and it doesn’t work here - or they can’t keep it up - or worse — it outs them The story doesn’t come from the robbery. The story happens when your character can’t stay who they’ve been in everyday life once their back is against the wall. Write that moment. You don’t need aftermath. You don’t need a lesson. Just the scene where the strategy fails or cracks. Also: Drop a few lines in the thread about what you’re taking away from the seminar — anything you feel you’ll actually use when you’re alone with a blank page. That feedback genuinely helps me shape what comes next for this community. Thanks again. I know I unloaded a lot on you, and I really appreciate the work and attention you brought to it. — David