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Influential Movies or TV Shows: IN COLD BLOOD, BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD DO AMERICA

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Comment on Your WBC Experience: I really did feel like I was given a roadmap to writing scripts.

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What are your favorite WBC tools? Writing the first fast draft. There was a fearlessness about writing a screenplay that Boot Camp encouraged that has really stayed with me.

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How you got your start in the business: My very first job out of college I worked for Viacom in New York translating television series and movies into Spanish. This included Hawaii Five-O; "Book him Dano" was "Llevatelo, Danny." We also translated the Beverly Hillbillies theme song into Spanish.

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Then I went to work for a CBS News affiliate station in Augusta Georgia, producing the 6 and 11 o\'clock news. After that I produced a PBS program about apartheid called "South Africa Now". I spent quite a bit of time in South Africa and was privileged to be there and to make films about Nelson Mandela\'s release from prison and South Africa\'s first non-racial democratic elections. I wrote my first screenplay based on my experiences there and was able to set up the project at a studio.

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Describe the Transition Stages of Your Career: I went from network news producing to making documentary films and wrote my first script based on experiences I had working as a journalist in Africa and managed to sell it to a studio. Now I feel very fortunate to be able to write and make documentary films.

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How many hours per week do you devote to your creative work: I would hate to compute my hourly.

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What biases or preferences do you have regarding the writing process? I still like to write first with a pen and paper, then put it on my computer.

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Do you have any special rituals, places you write, etc.? I also write for myself. Personal stories. And I have been in a writing group where it\'s not about writing stuff that is for sale. That writing tends to demand a lot of honesty and soul-searching, not work people always want to pay for, but often that\'s what makes me feel more like a real writer. And hearing other people\'s work is always important. It actually makes the screenwriting and other \'real\' work seem a lot easier.

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Do you have anything you’d like to say about LA or the entertainment world? You mean for attribution?

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