Query letters are strange animals to me. On one hand, I love talking about my ideas. I can spend hours expounding on what each character and interaction represents. In fact, I think I am more eloquent talking about my stories than I am actually writing them. Ask me for a summary and I will come up with a thousand new ways to describe the plot and the message. You would think that means that I am eager to write a query letter, but it just gives me too many options. I have two different...

As a writer and a producer, there are many opportunities to say perfection is right around the corner. A little more effort and I will be satisfied with the project. It is an easy lie to fall into. But we all know perfection is impossible. No matter what it is, it can always be improved in some way. Some people take that to mean that you should be content once it is in a reasonable state. Others take it to mean that it is never completed. It is a tricky line to find, but I find it by avoiding...

Didn't feel like writing this week because of a lot going on in my personal life. The end of an era in a sense. It has me thinking about how quickly things can change. All it takes is a moment and life's trajectory is completely different. Here today and gone tomorrow. My personal emotions go back and forth between mourning the past and eager about the future. It is a tightrope that I am not used to, but I am adjusting. There is something profoundly sad about things ending in an unfinished...