Here’s a preview of the mechanics of turning rejection, boredom, jealousy, loss, and despair into a book, movie, joke, walk, letter, meal, or meaningful moment.
This section will be filled with behind-the-scenes stories, tips, documents, photos, and videos showing how I turned a broken heart into art and made my books, movies, web series episodes, stage plays, stand up comedy routines, short stories, and more.
Writing A First Novel
See my dining room, with the outline taped to the wall, and how I crafted it into 300 pages. I’ll show you rejected book covers, advice from freelance editors I hired to help me shape early drafts, and what it was like to hear it was getting a review from The New York Times.
Writing A Play
I wrote my first play because I was acting and not booking any jobs in TV or film. I thought, Why not try the stage?
I’ll show you how it went from an idea (many said was a bad one) to crafting it at my kitchen table, workshopping it in my living room, designing the first poster, and taking it to sold-out stages all over the world, including Edinburgh Fringe.
And more…
We’ll look at projects that failed, web series episodes I shot but never posted, how I wrote out my own shot lists, storyboards, did my own make-up and hair (including using a bald cap in one project), video and sound editing, and wrote, produced and co-starred in projects I created with Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and Emmy Award winner Jonathan Van Ness.
