That idealistic, daydreaming girl from Hogtown who sometimes lost the reality plot while reading… was thinking her dreams may actually come true. For the first time in my life, I seriously thought about screenwriting. Told my one story, I Trusted You, would make a perfect movie. I was told my writing style lent itself to screenplays. Sometimes I need a push, or four, before I do what needs to be done. Not that pushing this stubborn, procrastinating Aries is a bad thing. One person saw something in my writing no one else had and pushed me to my limits. My heart, fragile and insecure, was too afraid to try.Īs an adult, I jumped feet first into the blogging, then pool and shared my stories with the world. That my future rested in screenwriting, movies, or television. Haven’t been little in a long time, except for the apprehension I felt towards screenwriting.Įvery part of myself told me repeatedly that I needed to write screenplays. One thing, in all her years of writing stories and imaging worlds, she wanted to do but was too afraid to try was screenwriting. It’s a good thing she can (usually) make sense of her written ramblings, because everyone else would be more lost than Alice in Wonderland. Inspiration hits and those pages fill up. Every notebook, every stray sheet of paper, was fair game to write a story on… and write on them she did. Only writing.īy the time this girl was eight, no piece of paper was safe. Read books like birds ate seeds, insanely fast and more than her body weight in a day. Taught herself to read and write at five, thank you Sesame Street, and never looked back. She’d been drawn to the written word her entire life. Homework was her task, but imagination was her distraction. A young girl sits with pencil in hand, notebook on her desk. Each mentee will also receive the latest in Final Draft software.Picture it. Mentees will also receive education and training through Stage 32 Next Level Education in the form of a free webinar of their choice and Stage 32 Script Services in the form of a free pitch session with the executive of their choice. Past participants include Nick Jr., OutTV, Plan B, and Array. And at the end of the program, each mentee will have the opportunity to be read by Mike Gauyo’s agents at Culture Creative and Lit Managers at Writ Large, for representation consideration. They will also participate in general meetings with Networks and Production Companies. In addition, mentees will participate in writing workshops and notes sessions to prepare mentees for Fellowships, Generals, and Staffing. Past participants include Amy Aniobi of Insecure, Kay Oyegun of This Is Us, and Golden Globe Winning & Oscar-Nominated Writer Kemp Powers writer of Soul and One Night in Miami. Features of the mentorship initiative include monthly Writer Roundtables with established writers/industry leaders.
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