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Monday Motivation:Stage 32 Never Stops Working for our Screenwriters: Comedy Contest Winner Lands More Meetings Through Stage 32
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The night before the winner of the was announced, I turned to my husband and said: “Do you thin
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The night before the winner of the [5th Annual Comedy Writing Contest]( was announced, I turned to my husband and said: âDo you think Iâll win?â He took a deep breath, looked at me with all the love in the world and said: âNo.â Boy, did he feel like a jerk when I got the email. Like a lot of writers, it was a bit of a circuitous path for me to get here. I think it was 7th grade that I started to write my first novel. It was about a plucky thirteen-year-old girl who was pretty, but didnât know it, and ended up dating the most popular boy in school. It was a real page turner. Looking back it makes perfect sense. But it took me until age 25 to say the words out loud: I want to be a writer. And I want to write comedy. We had just moved back to Chicago from DC, so I signed up for Improv Level A at âThe Second Cityâ and was in and out of the building every week for the next 3 years. I took basic Improv classes, an acting class, went through the Conservatory where we wrote and performed a Second City style revue, and then took a few screenwriting classes. I could gush at length about my time there (I know because I did and then deleted most of it because it was... long) so I will just say that it taught me three important lessons: 1) I do not have the talent to be a professional improviser, 2) I love creating comedy with a room full of hilarious humans, and 3) I really want to write TV... [Keep Reading]( Copyright © 2021 Stage 32, All rights reserved.
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