I do a nice sloppy first draft like everybody else. And then just work at it and work at it and groom it. I get input from other people.

Of course, the strippers also take pains not to appear too innocent, valorous, or bookishly inclined. (In direct opposition to the Swayze Mandate of 1987, everybody puts Baby in a goddamn corner.)

I'm glad that as a 33-year-old working mother, I can still choose to wear a Hello Kitty T-shirt or stay up late scrolling through the Twitter feed of my junior-high crush.

Here's my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly your competition. No one else is capable of doing what you do.

As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.

When I was a kid, I attended a small Catholic school in a south suburb of Chicago.

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production.