Screenwriting 101: Elizabeth Chomko

“Write. Write write write — grocery lists, journal entries, emails, short stories, whatever, it doesn’t matter. Write at every opportunity. Expect it to be awful, it makes it so much easier. That way you develop your writing habit and get to know your voice. Your voice is your best friend, it’s what makes your stories worth reading or watching or whatever. The stronger your relationship with your voice and your writing habit, the more you will love it and need it and get joy from it and be unable to live without it. It’s like learning an instrument. It’s all about getting to a place where you can just sit down and play, where you can get in the pocket and jam like a great jazz musician and marvel at how good you’ve gotten and how goddamn good that feels.”

— Elizabeth Chomko, 2015 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner

From Go Into The Story interview, June 2016

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