Ask the Author: Clarissa Jacobson
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Clarissa Jacobson
Mostly I just sit down and power through it and even if I only write a sentence or a paragraph, I just keep doing that day after day until I break through. Sometimes I will write stream of consciousness stuff to get out of my head and sometimes I just need a break from writing and take a few days off to come back to it fresh. Talking about it to other writer friends helps too, sometimes they have the simplest ideas that free you from the block.
Clarissa Jacobson
When the muse comes and you are in the zone and creating something that you don't know where it came from! And of course when you write "The End."
Clarissa Jacobson
Write even if you don't feel like it. Be dedicated to a time to write, and do it, slog through it even when it's hard, it's so much about showing up. Can't get to be a better writer if you don't write. Get in a class. Learn.
Clarissa Jacobson
A new horror screenplay called Tear Catcher.
Clarissa Jacobson
Inspiration is for the lucky - when inspiration comes it is the best thing in the world. But most of the time, sitting down to write is hard and not inspired and you look at a white page and bleed onto the paper. And then you get going and it becomes fun and maybe the muse comes. But mostly writing, for me, and I think for many is about showing up and doing it whether you have inspiration - if I waited for inspiration I would never finish anything! :)
Clarissa Jacobson
I had an extremely successful short film - Lunch Ladies. I had a huge learning curve on how to maneuver the world of film festivals and promotion as it was my first short and I got good at it, bringing the film to more than 120 film festivals, 42 awards, gold standard distribution and over 120 reviews and interviews. The director of Lunch Ladies - JM Logan - kept telling me to write a book about how I did it, to help filmmakers. I fought him on it - "JM - it's too much work to write a book!" But the idea just wouldn't die. So many filmmakers came to me asking me questions about how I did it, and ultimately I decided to sit down and put pen to paper.
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