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Yes, I’m using today’s #HumpDayHappy for self-promotion, but the fact that Sunday Night Sex Talks – my NO BOYS ALLOWED storytelling show – is celebrating three years of monthly shows in Los Angeles is a very happy fact. We’re planning a big bash for the birthday festivities at KING KING, Hollywood on Sunday, October 5th (just a quick break from our home at Bar Lubitsch …

On Sunday I taught a workshop on the Basics of Blogging through WritingPad – a fantastic resource for writing classes of all kinds here in L.A. and also online! I’ll actually be offering the class I taught online within the next month, so stay-tuned for that information. My goal in the three hour session was to give hopeful bloggers easy to digest information to help …

I am thrilled to announce that thanks to the fantastic people over at the fantastic Writing Pad (the BEST OF LA Weekly writing school), I am offering my very first blogging workshop.  SO YOU WANNA BE A BLOGGER?  Sunday, September 21st, 2:30-5:30pm snacks and drinks included! Look I have a whole page on the site and everything!   Won’t you please join me for an …

image source On my 31st birthday I decided that I know little to nothing about life and should seek the advice of older and wiser adults. The plan was to have a difference mentor recommend one book each month of my 31st year. So far it has been one month, and I am proud to say that the plan is still in effect. I was …

This week I learned the meaning of the phrase, “this book proposal isn’t going to write itself.” There have been some dark, dark times over the course of the 100 pages I’ve put down (#humblebrag), but the silver lining of it all is my new and improved list of tricks to force myself into writing when I in no way, shape or from want to …

Take that, “which famous Hollywood couple are you?” quiz! This super confusing looking chart from Aukland-based writer and designer Enni Tuomisalo with Lumi Creative for movie blog Filmsourcing will tell you if you should even be in Hollywood in the first place! The first time I took the quiz I got Gaffer but I think that’s because I didn’t know what, “do you like polishing …

I was having a drink with a friend the other night when the awkward topic of how to behave before you’ve, “really made it,” came up. Trust me, I feel as weird writing the words, “really made it,” as you feel reading them. What does it mean? When has it happened? What constitutes being a success? Nobody knows. I mean, Lena Dunham, Aaron Sorkin, the …