Thank you for this series, Scott! Such an educational delight.

And am particularly heartened to read, "Take what you have... and bring that to bear in your writing." Schnauzers! In every script!

OT, on "real Americans", some trivia: blue used to denote an incumbent win in a presidential race, red a challenger win, only in the last 10 years did those colors become fixed.

Scott, what does "tyro" mean in the phrase "tyro scribes"?

@Annika W: Tyro means novice or beginner. I'd never heard of it until I started working in Hwood. The Daily Variety uses it sometimes to refer to first-time writers.

Scott, you wrote; "Don't become a generic product. Take what you have and who you are, the sum of your life experiences, and bring that to bear in your writing. Hollywood is looking for writers who don't think like them."

You could make a lot of money selling that as a motivational poster. Every writer in the flyover states should memorize that statement and place the poster of it above their computer.