Someday I’ll rant more about the aspiring-screenwriter industrial complex, and the use of “Pre-WGA” as a badge of honor and social clique unto itself, and the ineffectiveness of intermediate-and-above-level advice across formats (film to TV, drama to comedy, genre to realism).

Basically, I think aspirings often shoot them(our)selves in the foot and take advice from gurus and/or within the subculture before looking at what pros actually do, and I’ve made almost every fuckup you CAN make in this regard, and just. No. I’m fully done.

Also I think once you get past the level of learning how to break story, outline, and draft, it can be more damaging than helpful to take advice or classes or other instruction from people who write different things than you do.

Someone writing on the Umbrella Academy/Magicians/Killjoys axis is going to come at, say, a This Is Us spec very differently from someone of the Jason Katims school of writing. And we *need* to get good with that.