"Perhaps, from a surface-level, it does seem kind of absurd to think that a cellist and a quarterback have anything in common. But a closer examination of what it means to be an athlete or an artist and what each requires suggests that the principles that work for sports, apply

"At one session, my therapist challenged me to identify how I learned my coping skills. That was an ah-ha moment that hit me like a two-by-four aside the head. I immediately raced home, mind spinning about not only my own childhood dysfunction, but also that of my characters.

"Their work got them signed to a top comedy manager and meetings followed. But work didn’t. It’s a familiar story." Read "The Fantastic Two: An Interview with Screenwriters Ian Springer & Jeff Kaplan" on #PipelineArtists: pipelineartists.com/the-fantastic-…

"Finally, when the deafening roar of the flames had slightly subsided—and the stink of decaying human flesh was not quite as potent—the man removed his sleeves and opened his eyes. He saw that he was on the edge of a towering cliff—and that one more step would send him plunging

More eps coming soon with authors, screenwriters, and industry... Catch up on all: howtheartswerewon.com

Authors: symposium.pipelineartists.com

The #1 (don't factcheck that) podcast in the arts... Catch up on Reckless Creatives Podcast, hosted by Jeanne Veillette Bowerman and @sadiekdean: pipelineartists.com/reckless-creat…

"When you’re in the thick of grieving, you’ve just lost the love of your life, your parent or best friend, there’s a laundry list of this to take care of." Read "What to Watch When Your Heart is Broken" on #PipelineArtists: pipelineartists.com/guidlines-for-…

"Hollywood doesn’t wait. Executives change like seasons. Strike while the iron’s hot, or go back to second-unit work. Blow things up. Call it a living. Then came Val." Read the tribute to Val Kilmer by D.J. Caruso on #PipelineArtists: pipelineartists.com/through-the-fo…

“'Maybe it’s time to pick a new path. You know, something that sticks. We need to think about the future,' she says calmly, but her finger taps the table in that nervous and annoying way. It’s clear she’s been rehearsing the delivery." Read the short story Legacy by Mike Langer

In the onslaught of A.I. we’re realizing this week that story is everything and the most important cog in the creative machine is the writer gosh who’d have thought.

A Pipeline Artists classic ... Read "a sonnet" by author and Pushcart Prize nominee Tara Stringfellow (Memphis): pipelineartists.com/a-sonnet-poem *original art created for Pipeline Artists by Graham Sisk

Explore an archive of interviews on #PipelineArtists: pipelineartists.com/tag/interviews/

"So many of you seem to be making the exact same mistakes with your writing. And from my vantage point, they're all easily fixable." Read now on #PipelineArtists: pipelineartists.com/5-script-notes…

"It’s important to see your work as the beginning and not just the end, even once you're published. I know for myself that working on all these various projects in different mediums keeps my neurons firing and the dreaded Writer’s Block at bay." From the #PipelineArtists

"A lot of what I already had learned from screenwriting translated to book writing. Plot is still plot, whether it’s in screenplay form, or book form. Characters are still characters, and dialogue is still dialogue." Read now on #PipelineArtists: pipelineartists.com/crossing-over

"Reinventing yourself takes the gift of objective analysis of your weaknesses. We bitch about how firmly those gates are locked to newbies, when we should be staring straight into a mirror, reflecting on our own roles in our struggle to succeed." Read now on #PipelineArtists:

"Throughout history, the greatest minds have left us roadmaps to victory..." NEW on #PipelineArtists: pipelineartists.com/know-thy-enemy/

"I have a confession to make—I’m a quitter." Read now on #PipelineArtists: pipelineartists.com/the-sunk-cost-…