writing | Marginalia

Over the summer, there’s a certain lack of structure without the daily routine of going to class and being assigned homework. As writers, ..

Everyone comes to Columbia at different stages in their writing career. Whether you’re fresh out of undergrad (like I was), or you’ve take..

Experimenting with digital collage from the junk mail in my inbox.

At the start of this semester I set out to experiment more in my pr..

The Spring Semester started on Monday, and I don’t have my first graduate class until Wednesday night. So what have I been doing these fir..

The New Year has dawned, and I don’t have a list of Resolutions for myself. For the past handful of years, I can name the “goals” I made f..

When I was about to begin graduate school in early September I marked each of the fifteen weeks down on a calendar, much as a prisoner wou..

I write to you from the last stress-filled weeks of the semester. I know end-of-semester chaos isn’t a new thing, but I always find myself..

I’m writing from the head-fog-filled morning of November 9, the day after the Election was called for Republican candidate Donald Trum..

So…Many…Drafts.

Development serves as one of the most important factors in creating a good film. It is of the utmost importance to..

Ahh, that sweet sweet “Screenplay by” credit

In the Cinema Directing program, we almost always write our own scripts. But not every di..