We’re diving deeeeeep. Gird your loins! (Recorded November 2020)

• Hillbilly Elegy (2020 film and 2016 book by J.D. Vance)
• Caitlin brings up ~ screenwriting twitter ~ YET AGAIN.
• A Million Little Pieces (2003 book by James Frey)
• Why does having a personal connection to the story make a script more desirable?
• Sketchy Hollywood Nonsense!
• The “White Trash Narrative” and male, southern writers
• An ode to Ron Howard, director of our hearts.
• White Trash: The 400 Year Old Untold History of Class in America (2017 book by Nancy Isenberg) 
• What You’re Getting Wrong About Appalachia (book By Elizabeth Catte)
• Personal backgrounds and the correlation with a writer’s brand.
• Class, wealth, and all the trappings of that bullshit.
• Realizing you are living through a life moment that will eventually need to be expressed creativity. 
• Drawing on life experience to enrich stories indirectly.
• Don’t be so literal! Nuance is the name of the game, baby!
• Lady Bird (2017) and Greta Gerwig
• Becoming too attached to the truth when adapting real life.
• The Farewell (2019) and Lulu Wang
• Rejecting who we are as young people vs. embracing who we are as adults.
• “One to Watch” a 2020 novel by Kate Stayman-London
• Framebridge - this is not an ad... but it could be! Framebridge, I love you! Call me!
• Little Leaders: Bold Women in Black History (2017 children's book by Vashti Harrison)