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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Pooley on January 6, 2011 at 9:15pm

Hi,

 

I am new to Los Angeles after twelve years in New York City where I was an acquisitions editor at HarperCollins, focusing mainly on literary fiction and memoir.  I am incredibly passionate about book-to-film adaptation and learning more about the craft of screenwriting both as a writer and to pursue work similar to what I did as a book editor. Books that I acquired such as Kiss & Tango; The Motel Life; and Lost Girls and Love Hotels, amongst others are in various stages of development--my fingers are crossed that they are made in the coming two years--and I hope to bring Marjorie Hart's Summer at Tiffany, which I discovered at a tiny writers' conference in 2006, to the screen in my author's lifetime (she turns 87 on April 15th) and wrote my first adaptation before learning craft to help others see why this was a book that can & should be adapted.  

 

I am very grateful to live a life where I have been able to work so closely with writers, and hope to do a bit more writing myself now--which I've long pushed to the side in favor of the writers I work with--and will be taking a class at UCLA this spring to become a better writer & editor (to give great notes and ask for ambitious rewrites I think you need to always remember what it is to be asked to do the work yourself).  Overall just so happy to have made this move west after wishing on it for so long, but first following books to New York City.  

 

I can be found posting about books or writing at @jenniferpooley on twitter or at www.jenniferpooley.com.    

Permalink Reply by Kenya D. Williamson on February 27, 2011 at 3:58pm

Hey everybody!

 

I'm a novelist, screenwriter and actress from Levittown, PA. But, currently I call Los Angeles home. I've written a handful of spec feature scripts and an original TV pilot. I wrote several short scripts for the web series Ernie's Girls. Lately, I've been writing primarily fiction.

 

My novel, Depth of Focus, is now available in paperback, Kindle and Nook. And I'm also working on two novels -- adaptations of my scripts Windmills (drama/suspense) and Siblings & Other Torture Devices (comedy). My fiction's influenced by my loves of screenwriting and poetry. I post excerpts of my work on my website, www.kenyadwilliamson.com, and Scribd. I look forward to what I can contribute to and glean from participation in this group.

 

Here are some of my links:

www.kenyadwilliamson.com

www.twitter.com/kenyawilliamson

www.scribd.com/kenya_williamson_1

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932077/

Permalink Reply by dianejwright on February 28, 2011 at 5:35pm

Love it! Welcome Kenya!

If you, Jennifer, and any other LA-based writers are interested, why not join the Goodreads Los Angeles group? Good readers make even better writers, after all.

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/29697.Goodreads_Los_Angeles

djw

Permalink Reply by Kenya D. Williamson on February 28, 2011 at 6:35pm

Thanks, Diane. I'm checking out the Goodreads group now!

Permalink Reply by Ms. Blasé on March 3, 2011 at 7:01am

Greetings!

 

I just love to write. Period. Short stories, screenplays, song lyrics, poetry, you name it. It's just what I do... like drawing and painting. I'm hoping that somehow, one day, I will be able to write full-time for a living because I simply can't live without it. Also, I've always wanted to be one of those fortunate, highly-envied individuals who gets paid to do what they love :)

Permalink Reply by Mary Ratliff on July 2, 2011 at 8:11pm

Hello everyone!

 

My name is Mary Ratliff, and I technically started screenwriting twelve years ago when I studied film for my BA. But looking back on those scripts now, it doesn't really feel like they count!  I did direct a few of them as short films, but I never did anything with them.

 

In 2008 I went back to school for my MFA, and I studied film again, this time with a focus on screenwriting and directing.  So over the last three years is when I really consider that I became a "screenwriter."  I've written a dozen short scripts, two of which I directed in the last year, Extraction and Catching Up.  Catching Up won an award and was nominated for two others, so it's by far my most successful piece.  The finished film won an award as well, though it's yet to be accepted by a film festival.  You can see the trailer for it here on my page: http://www.shewrites.com/video/official-trailer-for-catching

 

I've also written one feature length screenplay, but it's in a state of limbo while I concentrated on finishing up my short films and graduating last year.  I have another feature script outlined and ready to go once I find some time to work on it!  Right now I'm spending a lot of time directing a feature length documentary, which is a very different kind of storytelling, but I want to start working on that second feature this summer in between shoots.

 

I live outside D.C. with my husband.  We're both huge nerds, and right now because of my documentary my entire brain is taken up with competitive video gaming.  But I love to write both screenplays and prose (not usually poetry) and I'm learning to swim better this summer.  I like crafting and baking, but I never find the time these days.

Permalink Reply by dianejwright on July 6, 2011 at 9:59am

Welcome Mary. Love that you're working on a doc. Those are extraordinarily difficult, in my opinion, so hats off to you! When I read your post, I knew I had something in the archives for you: http://the-story-spot.com/2008/your-first-10-scripts/

Don't ever stop creating!

djw

@dianejwright

Permalink Reply by Pat Branch on September 18, 2011 at 5:54am

yay! http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs062/1102568755484/archive/1107...

Permalink Reply by Jackie Petersen on November 16, 2011 at 10:01am

Hi all!

I write both novels and screenplays, but I'm just starting out, really.  I enjoy writing animation screenplays more than live action film, and I do have a completed animation feature screenplay that I wrote for my creative writing MFA, but I'm planning on reworking it and tweaking it a bit after I finish NaNoWriMo this month.  I'm really excited to get to know everyone here and their work.  I know I can pick up a lot of pointers from you all!

 

Permalink Reply by Kathy Price on February 12, 2012 at 2:57pm

Hello Diane-She-Screen-Writers:

I am a complete novice to screenwriting. I love my picture( now out of print)  book, The Bourbon Street Musicians, Clarion-Houghton Mifflin.  http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/19/books/children-s-books-swamp-and-...

It's a jazz picture book and  a few years ago, I started an attempt to line up "names" to get behind it. So far, Brandford Marsalis has a signed copy for his son---but that's been it. I am adapting it as an animated feature film--as a complete newbie.

I am taking a few classes here and there on screenwriting, and began reading animated screenplays. Feels very slow.

Looking forward to gleaning wisdom from this group--thanks!  

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