Comedy. Romance. Delusion.
THAT’S THE GENERAL SITUATION.
You want to know more?
Let me start with the movie version of Elizabeth.
Elizabeth is a carefree person who doesn’t look a day over 25.
She’s a writer. Or maybe works for the FBI. Or is a professional sportsperson… but only because she wants to be paid to get in shape.
Even though she’s a kick-ass career woman, she also has a life — saying yes to last-minute invites, smoking weed on a Wednesday, and generally acting like she doesn’t have to be in bed by 9:30 to solve a crime or win a game the next morning.
Movie-Elizabeth doesn’t over analyze everything. She never spirals out when making tough decisions, like whether to work from a coffee shop or at home. She never devolves into drama when needing to do something ordinary and mundane like picking up sparkling water from the grocery store. There are so. many flavours!!! Her coping skills make others seethe with envy.
Most importantly, Movie-Elizabeth co-stars with Harry Styles and would really like him to be her one true love, but feels Mark Ronson is a better fit because he’s older, cooler, and that just feels more responsible.
The end.
Listen... I get that creating the movie version of yourself might feel delusional, but I’m at least delusionally responsible.
See: choice of Ronson over Styles.
Real-life Elizabeth may not be a CSI-level crimefighter or a sports person, but I am a professional writer.
It’s not all fiction, people.
I was never one of those people who knew what they wanted to do at ten years old, unless “marry a boy band member” counts as a vocational plan. I found my way here the less efficient way: following the weird little sparks, talking myself into things before I felt ready, and deciding that a bit of delusion can be extremely useful if you aim it at the right dream.
Now I’m the author of Bed Chemistry, a fake-dating, second-chance romantic comedy about a sleep study, only one bed, and two people being paid to sleep beside each other for thirty nights.
I’ve also written several feature screenplays, with projects placing in international screenwriting contests including ScreenCraft, Final Draft, and the Austin Film Festival.
My work is full of romantic chaos, buddy comedy, big feelings, bad decisions, and characters brave enough to want things out loud.
Which is usually where the trouble starts.
I like characters who love what they love.
The ones who are passionate to a fault. The ones who chase the dream, the person, the ticket, the fantasy, the feeling, the life they secretly think they were meant for — even when they’re making it up as they go.
Especially then.
Because that’s where the funny stuff is.
And the honest stuff.
And the part where someone finally stops pretending they don’t care.
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When I’m not writing, you’ll find me listening to the same ten songs on repeat on Spotify like a serial killer.
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