About
I write screenplays and direct movies. I read advice columns.
Advice columns are full of conflict.
Good screenplays are full of conflict.
People who write to advice columnists are usually looking for help in having a difficult conversation. Most advice-column advice comes down to “Have you tried telling that person what you just told me?”
Movie characters are all direct and brave and articulate the way that we almost never get to be in real life. They get to have those difficult conversations and make them sound awesome. That’s not because screenwriters are life experts. We are not. You should probably not be taking life advice from a woman whose plan for paying back $100K in grad school debt is “be an indie filmmaker.”
I can’t tell you what to do. But I can try to tell you what to say, or lend you some courage in saying it.
Write to me at welcometoawkwardtown@gmail.com. I will redact personally identifying details from your question and reserve the right to edit it for length and content before posting. And then I will give you honest answers and try to make you sound awesome.
An awesome friend/blog reader made me a thing.
I love this idea! I will be following.
Excellent concept:)
And but so I do not even remember how I found your fine embloggenation because I have been too busy reading and enjoying it to give somebody credit, sorry, but thank you (and mystery source of finding your blog, whoever that may be)! Keep up the fantabulousness!
I had to share that reading your archives, including the amazing comments, has been the best way to spend two days home sick in bed. Your advice is thoughtful, sensible, truthful and respectful. I’m a 50 something woman, and I’m learning so much from you and your readers. This blog is a wonderful use of the Interwebs. Thank you!
i love this!