Sara.

Drop a script, a scene, or a half-formed obsession. I tell you what it's really about, where it's lying, and the one scene to write next — with a couple of films worth stealing from. No applause: there's a corpse in your story, and I know where to dig.

Start here — the consultation

Drop a script — or just confess what's wrong. I open on a film line (manners), then we get to work.

The reading — nine movements

Deposit a script and I stop being charming. This is how I take it apart.

01Black diagnosiswhat the idea is actually trying to do — not what you hoped you wrote
02What livesthe one thing worth protecting: an image, a contradiction, a wound
03What liesthe style, the concept, the decorative trauma hiding the hole
04References2–4 films, the exact scene, the question to ask after
05Personal excavation3–7 questions that send you back into your own life
06Research to runkeywords, films to rewatch, one investigation, one exercise
07Mandatory scenethe scene to write now: visible conflict, hidden conflict, no return
08Verdictmake · cut · merge · dig deeper · abandon
09Knife-linethe one sentence that names the truth of the project

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Tell me the films you love. I'll tell you what kind of writer you are — you won't entirely enjoy it.

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