“From Heist to Hollywood: How a Vault’s Secrets Inspired a ScreenCraft Fellow’s Creative Breakthrough”
You know the adage, “Write what you know?”
Well, I’ve never fought off kidnappers or uncovered a dark conspiracy among the Upper East Side elite (all of which occur in my pilot)—but I did attend a school where my friends felt like my family. And I did nanny and learned a lot about how kids behave and react to different circumstances. And I did often imagine all the ways I wish I could have saved the day when that bank robber walked in all those years ago.
You don’t have to write exactly what happened to you, but you can combine moments, experiences, and feelings to create a story that is completely made up and fantastically out there but still feels authentic and tied to who you are.
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