We’re diving deeeeeep. Gird your loins! (Recorded November 2020)
- Hillbilly Elegy (2020 film and 2016 book by J.D. Vance)
- Caitlin brings up ~ screenwriting twitter ~ YET AGAIN.
- A Million Little Pieces (2003 book by James Frey)
- Why does having a personal connection to the story make a script more desirable?
- Sketchy Hollywood Nonsense!
- The “White Trash Narrative” and male, southern writers
- An ode to Ron Howard, director of our hearts.
- White Trash: The 400 Year Old Untold History of Class in America (2017 book by Nancy Isenberg)
- What You’re Getting Wrong About Appalachia (book By Elizabeth Catte)
- Personal backgrounds and the correlation with a writer’s brand.
- Class, wealth, and all the trappings of that bullshit.
- Realizing you are living through a life moment that will eventually need to be expressed creativity.
- Drawing on life experience to enrich stories indirectly.
- Don’t be so literal! Nuance is the name of the game, baby!
- Lady Bird (2017) and Greta Gerwig
- Becoming too attached to the truth when adapting real life.
- The Farewell (2019) and Lulu Wang
- Rejecting who we are as young people vs. embracing who we are as adults.
- “One to Watch” a 2020 novel by Kate Stayman-London
- Framebridge - this is not an ad... but it could be! Framebridge, I love you! Call me!
- Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (2017 children's book by Vashti Harrison)