My step mom: "You'll never make a dime as a writer." Yet somehow...

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I live in Santa Monica, 6 blocks from the beach. I didn't go to film school, or really know anybody when I moved here years ago. But in that time I've...

Dabbled in movies. Co-wrote Shrek 2, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Disenchanted, the Smurfs movies, the Rugrats movies, and Are We There Yet?

Made a few dimes on my way to $2.5B cumulative box office across a 30+ year career writing, rewriting, pitching, and fixing projects for Disney, Dreamworks, Paramount, Fox, etc.

Written for Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, Mike Myers, Neil Patrick Harris, Sofia Vergara, Ice Cube, Katy Perry, Antonio Banderas, Patrick Dempsey, Hank Azaria, Cuba Gooding Jr. etc etc.

Invested my dimes in a house in Pacific Palisades, so my kids could grow up in one idyllic little town, rather than get bounced from place to place like I did.

Watched said town burn down in Jan. 2025, including that house and everything in it. Then watched my daughter go from devastated to thriving her freshman year at NYU.

The same year, I built The Writer's Forge to 620+ members, coaching writers three times per week. Because it's all, all of it, about mindset.

Created the Primal Forge Method: a character-first story development process that helps writers find the emotional engine of their story before touching structure.

Developed proprietary tools already working inside the community: Primal Forge GPT and The Diner Test.

Next up: Helping 25 serious screenwriters write, finish and market the best screenplay of their lives in a private cohort I'm calling The Screenplay Forge.

If you're ready to get serious and take your writing to the next level, click here to apply.

First in, first served. Lock your place now.

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My step mom: "You'll never make a dime as a writer." Yet somehow...