“Why now?”
One of the biggest questions every creator gets asked.
I wrote about how timing shapes storytelling, why trends dominate Hollywood, and why some stories become timeless while others quietly disappear.
Link: https://t.co/mx340WEkrC
#screenwriting#writingcommunity
@tihsehtmi@JonsLongs The problem is so much more prevalent than you’d think lol especially when it comes to your own family asking why you don’t write “Black stories” as opposed to anything else lol
Writers don’t just create stories.
Sometimes we move into them.
Which is why “just sell the script” can feel less like business and more like being evicted from a world you spent years building.
Link: https://t.co/S7p7zvayey
Live-action has one unique risk:
If you’re not careful, everything starts looking the same.
(looking at certain remakes 👀)
I broke down the pros/cons of animation vs live-action:
https://t.co/IlNlXbx2Fz
Networking is awkward.
It feels fake.
It’s uncomfortable.
And yeah—most people hate it.
But it’s also how people actually get opportunities.
I broke down why it matters (and how to make it suck less):
Link: https://t.co/tWIcrDlokH
Why are black creators and readers the only ones not allowed to indulge in escapism? The woman whose single can dive into books about women happily in love, the 14-hour blue-collar worker can entertain fiction about the lazy playboy billionaire and the hardcore science grad can crack open his favorite fantasy books, each escaping their realities and diving into content that are vastly opposite of their experiences.