About ten years ago Whiskey and Old Stogies only existed in draft form. Every week I took 1,500 words of it to Toni Lopopolo‘s writers workshop and brought my pages back with lots of notes scribbled on them. I also attended Screenwriters Association of Santa Barbara, now defunct, meetings because I figured learning about screenwriting equals learning about writing. 

One SASB member, Guy Goldstein, talked about a website he developed, readthrough.com. On the site voice actors volunteered to perfo...