Writing from Personal Experience 101

We’re diving deeeeeep. Gird your loins! (Recorded November 2020)

Hillbilly Elegy (2020 film and 2016 book by J.D. Vance)Caitlin brings up ~ screenwriting twitter ~ YET AGAIN.A Million Little Pieces (2003 book by James Frey)Why does having a personal connection to the story make a script more desirable?Sketchy Hollywood Nonsense!The “White Trash Narrative” and male, southern writersAn ode to Ron Howard, director of our hearts.White Trash: The 400 Year Old Untold History of Class in America (2017 book by Nancy Isenberg) What You’re Getting Wrong About Appalachia (book By Elizabeth Catte)Personal backgrounds and the correlation with a writer’s brand.Class, wealth, and all the trappings of that bullshit.Realizing you are living through a life moment that will eventually need to be expressed creativity. Drawing on life experience to enrich stories indirectly.Don’t be so literal! Nuance is the name of the game, baby!Lady Bird (2017) and Greta GerwigBecoming too attached to the truth when adapting real life.The Farewell (2019) and Lulu WangRejecting who we are as young people vs. embracing who we are as adults.“One to Watch” a 2020 novel by Kate Stayman-LondonFramebridge - this is not an ad... but it could be! Framebridge, I love you! Call me!Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (2017 children's book by Vashti Harrison)