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The funny thing about the final semester for this program is that your cohort, which used to h..

Downtown Portland, Oregon: Home of AWP 2019

By a strange twist of fate, Portland, Oregon, and Portland, Maine, are on roughly the same..

You can’t make films alone. Well, you could. But it would be pretty hard to film, record sound, and act in a film all be yourself. Telling..

Our test shoot of Silver Cord finally happened! Even for a test shoot, we prepared to shoot for a long time so that we could test as much ..

Back at the beginning…

Maintaining a love life is one of the most complicated things you can do in graduate school, especially when ..

I’d like to believe that there is no such thing as “writer’s block.” I could write for days about topics that I care about. Would they all..

I feel like just yesterday I was writing a blog post all about one of my recording sessions, and how nervous and excited I was. Lo and..

Screenshot of thatwa.y takeover, which is super fun and a great way to promote your work!

Some of the most rewarding things about atte..

As soon as you begin development on a project, there’s a lot of emotions. The excitement of telling an interesting story, the weariness of..

An early draft of my thesis. While I’ve learned to write, I still cannot spell.

“Thesis” is a fun word to say. It makes your tongue push..