#storytelling

Representation Kills/Representation Gives Life

Representation: How something is depicted. However ‘realistic’ texts may seem to be, they involve some form of transformation....

An Editor Can Uphold or Dismantle Systemic Racism

Photo from Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s blog post “Scholastic, and a Faustian Bargain.” Love in the Library is a children’s book by Maggie...

“Five Reasons Why Representation Matters”

“Everything Everywhere All At Once’s” sweep of the Academy Awards was a giant win for Pan-Asian representation in American film, LGBTQ...

To Find Your Story, Try Starting From The End

Age 16, training to be an actress at the Carnegie Mellon Pre-College Summer Conservatory of Drama We’ve all got things we’ve learned...

Origin Stories

Miss America, aka America Chavez, the Marvel superhero written by Gabby Rivera, has a VERY complicated origin story. What’s Yours? We all...

Rewriting Your Own Story is Sometimes the Most Important Revision of All

This girl thought she’d made all the mistakes, until she realized she’d gained all the wisdom. Or some of it. Whether I’m editing,...

Making Connections To Tell Great Stories

I first used this gift as a film student, and then as a screenwriter, helping my peers discover what they were trying to say when they...