“From Heist to Hollywood: How a Vault’s Secrets Inspired a ScreenCraft Fellow’s Creative Breakthrough”
Let’s back up—after graduating from a small liberal arts college in Kalamazoo, MI with a degree in English and Media Studies, I felt lost and unsure of where the future may lead me. So I took a job that required neither knowledge of 19th-century British literature nor an understanding of Orson Welle’s use of chiaroscuro: bank teller.
The Inciting Incident
One day, a man walked into the bank, wielded a gun, and robbed the bank. There are details I’m leaving out, but the important thing is that no one was hurt. But all throughout the robbery, I kept hearing Paula Cole’s voice singing the Dawson’s Creek theme song, “I don’t wanna wait for our lives to be over…”
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