It's great things are turning for Tyler but I'm a little surprised the Hollywoodwiretap article neglected to mention anything about Scriptshadow in their piece.

Posts of this nature feel like finding water in the desert knowing it's not a mirage. Thanks, Scott.

Correction, meant to say "things are turning out great for Tyler"

Yeah, even I mentioned SS in the TBOS post where I noted Tyler's deal and I'm just a blogger, not a journalist. BTW swapped emails with Tyler. He's a GITS fan, too.

All we will ever see behind clouds is a shining light so bright it pumps energy of a blinding heart impervious to rain or fire. It's a magnet. Always there. Persistent. Challenging us to dare watching and to just close our eyes to feel the heat in every step we take. Far away and closer by the minutes if we so choose to reach it.

Try reading that post sitting in front of a big glass window on a gray day in small town coffee shop with "The Winner Is" from The Little Miss Sunshine soundtrack playing thru your headphones. Whoa. What a movie moment. I felt my life changing.

It's funny you should mention that, Annika. Little Miss Sunshine was one of the inspirations for sitting down and writing my farce. Everybody in that movie is pretty much dealing with issues revolving around identity and failure. Feeling personally backed into that particular corner, that's the road I decided to go down literally with the story's theme. I never thought too much about how we define ourselves beforehand, of how much our profession plays a role into our identity (if we let it). Second perhaps only to our name is the question "what do you do?" that often gets asked by strangers. I've learned to just smile as a response. A, it keeps them guessing and it's fun to hear them make assumptions, and b, it's what I'm usually doing anyway when I'm writing. :)

What is failure and what is success, those two are central themes in LMS. I've read just about everything out there about the movie's screenwriter Michael Arndt and he talks extensively about that precise point. In my view LMS has a central character, Olive whose goal of performing in the LMS pageant, is what provides the backbone to the story's plot, and three Protagonists, the lead one Richard, and two others Frank and Duane. Each of those three is directly dealing with issues of failure and success, Richard most overtly because he actually preaches self-help crap with those very concepts as core principles. The catharsis of the entire family joining Olive on stage, dancing with her, supporting her, amidst what the world would consider a colossal failure, is one of the most wonderful movie moments I've seen in the last decade.

I laughed pretty hard at that scene when I saw it in the theaters. All this build up and dread, then... the song. But it was the family joining in that really elevated that scene: it's what they ALL needed. I know when I wrote my scene, I thought of it as my "LMS" moment... but instead of dancing, it's karaoke and all the principle characters are dealing with identity crises, trying to be things they're not when what they really need is to accept themselves. I make no qualms when I say I was trying to top that scene and aim for a piece of my own little magic. I remember telling a friend, if going through all the stuff I've had to do meant being able to write that scene, then it was worth it. The bliss of reading it over and listening to the music still hasn't worn off for me.