HeyJaredLetters from the Trenches
WGA writer / educator / nonsense-talker. rep: mitchell bendersky @ expectation management
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The Challenges of an Anemic Writer (opens the original)
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I’m anemic. This is common for South Asian women, and goes double for me on the page. I have an OCD-like obsession with the economy of words, which helps in screenwriting. A page count ceiling forces you to be intentional and precise about every word choice. And while other writers struggle to kill their darlings, I murder mine with gleeful abandon. I overcompensate for low iron with a bloody body count!!The flip side of this habit is that I sometimes strain to produce in the first place. When I
On Appreciating the Sublime in Horror (opens the original)
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For years whenever anyone asked me if I wanted to check out a horror film, my answer would be, “hard pass.” One only needs to open the front page news to be confronted with something terrible. Life, I believe, is filled with enough horrors. Who would want to scare themselves for fun?Listen, I am the type of person sitting in the audience who will shriek… Read more
Your Writing Routine Will Change (opens the original)
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I’m back after a couple of Big Life Updates, the first being that I moved and am currently living out of boxes. I’m doing my best to make sure I unpack everything, but considering I brought along boxes from my last move (over ten years ago!!!), it has been a process. This also means until such time that I set up my home office, I am using our dining tab… Read more
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