Michelle Garcia

Tonight I finished the first draft of my first feature length screenplay! All 127 glorious pages. Don’t get me wrong — I KNOW my jokes are weak. The plot is meh, the characters don’t all pop. But it’s OK. It’s a first draft. My husband has reminded me to walk away from it now. Take [...]

The end of the year, that is. As mentioned before, I’m currently creating a basis of research on understanding women in society, as an audience, and as consumers. In addition to that, here’s what my next 6 months look like… - Finishing the first draft of my very first feature-length screenplay! (90 pages down, and [...]

Two things happened this fall, that made me further understand who I’m writing for, and what I’m writing exactly. 1. I was talking to my mom about my docket of script ideas I want to tackle in the coming year, and I said, “Basically, none of my protagonists are male or over the age of [...]

Whoa. Last night, I passed the 60 page mark. I still have tons to write, and re-write, and re-re-write, and so on, but I’m pretty pumped about it. So pumped, I’m posting this photo, because it’s cute. Filed under: Foundation Tagged: coming of age, movies, screenplays, writing

I’ve been outlining a screenplay for about six months. Sure, it’s yet another coming-of-age movie about an outcast girl and her BFF, and finding love in high school. But it’s my coming-of-age movie about an outcast girl and her BFF, and finding love in high school, dammit. It’s very loosely based on me and two [...]

Universal purchased a spec script for Grim Night. The premise, according to THR: Grim Night’s conceit is that one night every year, strange creatures attack Earth and kill thousands, targeting different place[s] with no one knowing why. The story centers on a family in small town America that gets attacked and has to defend themselves. The [...]

Upon recommendation from a writing colleague, I picked up a book — you know the type. The kind of book that is supposed to help guide you through the trials and tribulations of being a writer. The kind of book that will give you great insights into the world of scribedom, and helps you hope [...]

OK, to many people, being a Production Assistant on a small-scale, pro-bono PSA is really not a big deal. But for me, it was a big freaking deal because it was the first time I got to actually work on a set. I’ve been to tapings and shoots before, but this was the first time [...]

Two weeks ago, I finished an amazing program, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s Professional Program in producing. My 50+ classmates and I were met with a fairly rigorous schedule: 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., four nights a week, for 10 weeks. Personally, I didn’t go to film school, unlike quite a few [...]

This weekend I decided that I wanted to go back to braiding my hair. I didn’t want to spend money on doing so, and I didn’t want to wait a week for an appointment, even if I did have a wad of cash. Additionally, I’m going to New York in a couple of weeks — [...]