One day in April of this year, I woke up to my ordinary routine as a music writer and editor in Los Angeles. I was working on a critique of a new album, planning my social media efforts for a weekend covering an upcoming music festival, and “writing at” (as opposed to “writing”) a short … Continue reading My Halcyon Days As theOffice 2013 Fellowship Winner
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"I don't really plan it out for the characters to have these really raw human experiences, but I think inevitably it ends up that way. In the story I want to tell, the characters end up being probably embarrassed frequently or they're in awkward situations just like in real life. I always have a desire to show people … Continue reading QOTD
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Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, … Continue reading QOTD
Media Fast
In my last year at Emerson College I had a Media Ethics class with a professor named Tom Cooper. The kind of professor that makes those crazy tuition costs worth it. Among many other valuable things, he taught his students to be conscious of the amount of time we spend consuming media. He even encouraged … Continue reading Media Fast
Allow Me To Introduce Myself…
Hi there. My name is Emily. I was lucky enough to get a job at theOffice a few weeks ago. Now that I’m settling into the job (learning everyone’s names, finding the appropriate volume to whisper in), it’s time I introduce myself on the world wide web. I graduated from Emerson College in Boston this … Continue reading Allow Me To Introduce Myself…
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The stars over the Atlantic are dangling salt crystals. The room at the Seashell Inn is $20 a night; special winter off-season rate. No one else here but us and the night clerk, five floors below, alone with his cherished stack of Spiderman. … Continue reading QOTD
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It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want - oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! Mark Twain
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Now, moving in, cartons on the floor, the radio playing to bare walls, picture hooks left stranded in the unsoiled squares where paintings were, and something reminding us this is like all other moving days; finding the dirty ends of someone else's life, hair fallen in the sink, a peach pit, and burned-out matches in … Continue reading QOTD
Member Chatter
On writing for TV. The process changes quite a bit as the season goes on, both in a positive and negative sense. On the positive side, you begin to develop a relationship to your characters (the ones in your head, not the actors); they start talking to you, mouthing off, doing unexpected and unimaginable things. … Continue reading Member Chatter
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Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words. C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
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