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Pipeline Artists
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A home for creatives. ✍️🎥📖 Est. 2021. 🦊 Fiercely independent. 🏴‍☠️
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"Joining a community that is oriented around your writing interests is crucial to forging a path for your content, perfecting your craft, and meeting the types of people that can elevate your work...."

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Best Practices for Writing "Conferencing"
There are a lot of reasons, of course, but let’s just boil this down to the punchline—you have to meet people to sell your work.
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December 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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From the Pipeline Artists "Subplot" archives....

Read the profile on Ariel Levine (Better Call Saul, Pluribus) now:

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Leaps and Bounds: Writer Ariel Levine Makes Her Ascent on Better Call Saul
Yet here she was, about to make the biggest pitch of her life: requesting a promotion to staff writer on the sixth and final season of a show some call the best on television.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"I just thought I wanted to be a photographer, and I really didn't even know what that meant. I just knew I liked taking pictures."

Read the interview with Alison Cohen Rosa now on #PipelineArtists:

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Below the Line: On-Set Photographer Alison Cohen Rosa
"I would pinch myself sometimes on set, going, 'I'm so fucking lucky to be in this room.' Like, I get goosebumps. I am so lucky."
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December 19, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"Here is your mission, should you choose to accept it. Close your eyes. Clear your mind. Think back: when was the last time a movie line felt instantly iconic—something destined to be quoted for decades?"

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I Can't Handle the Truth: How and Why Movies Gave Way to Memes
Are we being noted to death by fear-stricken development execs who are too timid to put something up on screens that swings for the fences ... ?
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December 18, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"My mom must have thought it was a bomb because she put her shoulder in front of me to shield me, like we were in the car, and she was about to throw out her arm to stop the impact of a real or imagined stop."

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Popcorn Summer
One of our dreams had to die for the other's to survive.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"Finding our people is important in all aspects, all industries, and crucial to survival."

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I'll Be There For You
You don’t have to love the ride, but accepting it is freeing.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"With publicity like that, is it any wonder that awards shows are turning off viewers, fans, and critics?"

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Are Awards Shows Ruining Show Business
I’m all for pushing envelopes, but should cringe be a part of awards show comedy?
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December 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"To further destroy my business plan in the advice-giving racket, I do not have any right-or-wrong answers for how your writing journey should go."

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Launch Party: The Practicalities of Taking an Impractical Leap
I didn’t become a full-time writer because it would support me financially—I did it so I could finally feel alive.
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December 16, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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For your holiday listening pleasure...

Catch up on eps of the Pipeline Artists original podcast for authors, The Story Will Save You:
The Story Will Save You
The world of writing and publishing, from the POV of emerging authors and the brave souls on the front lines.
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December 15, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Early deadline for @scriptpipeline - coming soon.

Learn more and submit on scriptpipeline.com.
December 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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"As I watch her struggle down the long, dark hallway to their bedroom, I'm thinking about love and the liars it makes of us all."

Read the short story "Fuzzy and June" by Kincaid Jones on #PipelineArtists:

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Fuzzy and June
As I watch her struggle down the long, dark hallway to their bedroom, I'm thinking about love and the liars it makes of us all.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Face some hard truths on #PipelineArtists:

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Hard Truths You Probably Don’t Wanna Hear But Should (For Writers): The Sequel
Alarm clock openings were never in style. They're not in style now. They will never be in style.
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December 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"And after having an epiphany at age 27, I decide to be a filmmaker. I know nothing. Nothing about cameras, editing, actors ... absolutely nothing. Don’t care, it doesn’t matter ... I mean, how hard can it be?"

From the #PipelineArtists archives:

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We Get There When We Get There
I don’t want to be famous. I don’t want to be the next ‘so-and-so’ anymore. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still on my grind—I still bleed this shit. But I’m just ... enjoying the ride.
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December 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"I used to draw and paint a lot as a kid. And I loved movies. When I was 14, I saw The Exorcist, and I thought it was just so cool. Like, how the hell did they do that?"

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Below the Line: Makeup Artist Nicki Ledermann
You can be the best makeup artist in the world, but if you don't get along with people and can't read the trailer, the room, the atmosphere, the actor … If you don't have that, then you will never…
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December 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"Maikranz began writing for The Denver Post and a few other publications, as many lit majors are prone to do. However, the desire to tell his own stories never left."

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Infinite Reincarnations: One Story’s Mythical Journey from the Page to the Screen
The life of a novelist is a very solitary endeavor. You engage the blank page on your own ... But in order for it to become a commercial product that is going to reach a wider audience, there has to…
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December 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"...it is possible to hustle like crazy, get some money for your project, and build a bigger base on your socials with modern crowdfunding."

Read now on #PipelineArtists:

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There’s No Crowdfunding Fairy and Also Santa Has Diabetes
We need stories, and we need stories like yours. And you must believe and trust in that to get people to donate.
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December 12, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"...Javier's creative journey as a screenwriter and emerging director likely mirrored your experience at some point in time."

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Interview: Screenwriter and Filmmaker Javier Solórzano Casarin
From documentaries to commercials to feature films, Javier Solórzano Casarin takes us on a step-by-step retelling of how his love for filmmaking grew into a lifetime passion.
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December 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"But on this night … something sparked in her. She was intrigued by the premise, the emotion, and how passionately I spoke about the story. She asked if she could experience it, too. She wanted to play the game..."

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I Played FFX with My Mom ... This is What I Learned
But on this night … something sparked in her. She was intrigued by the premise, the emotion, and how passionately I spoke about the story. She asked if she could experience it, too. She wanted to…
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December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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"Actors have to know their characters inside and out. But guess what, before actors ever lay their eyes on a script, so do the writers!"

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Acting Exercises Writers Can Use to Flesh Out Their Characters
If you consider creating and developing characters to be your writing Achilles' heel, you've come to the right place.
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December 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"So, no on-set experience, two babies, no childcare, and the entire industry on pandemic-related shutdown. I had nothing to lose! I also had no one to tell me otherwise."

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Script to Screen: How I Taught Myself to Direct
But to actually direct—something scripted no less—felt like a sham. People went to school for that. Or they had climbed the proverbial ladder to earn it.
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December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"Kudos to you, Duffer Brothers, for conjuring characters and spinning such tales that even this scaredy cat dared to brave watching because I just had to know. I had to know what was happening next because they made me care about a bunch of kids from Indiana."

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December 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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"Standing in a Room Naked: Being a Screenwriter Without Representation"

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Standing in a Room Naked: Being a Screenwriter Without Representation
My answer is a frustrating one, but it is an answer. You must give yourself agency over your work and your career. You must reach out to what’s in your means and take action: make things.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Reckless Creatives - our most-listened-to podcast.

Catch up but don't operate heavy machinery:

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Reckless Creatives Podcast
Reckless Creatives is the Pipeline Artists original podcast about nothing and everything.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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"An edgier filmmaker might have tried to incorporate more of author Gregory Maguire’s book, Wicked, from which the Broadway musical was itself adapted. Maguire’s prose was much more adult, darker, and quite nasty."

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Why Wicked Works
Where Chu was truly brilliant as a director was in his innate understanding of the intimacy of film.
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December 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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"It does newbie screenwriters an injustice to tell them not to hustle and do everything possible to support their work because most screenwriters will never get a big studio deal."

NEW on Pipeline Artists, from writer Kim Hornsby:

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When the Power Goes Out
Writing is not a choice, but a lifestyle and you get out of it what you put into it.
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December 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM