Articles and blogs

New #blog alert! For any #screenwriter out there or writer who likes #writingprompts or a good #writingchallenge, I very much recommend checking out Script Hive and their #discord community. https:...

For anyone who is interested, here is my entry to the 2021 #NYCMidnight short #screenplay competition! I'm proud of this one and had a really fun time writing it. https://cheekybats.com/katy-writin...

Continuing from my last blog post about the #NYCMidnight short screenplay challenge, here's my #feedback on the film I wrote for the 2020 challenge. I got some great feedback! #screenwriting #horro...

With another #NYCMidnight competition underway, I figured I would share my previous entry into the competition. Spoiler alert, I didn't win, but I'm still proud of the piece that I wrote! #screenwr...

Let's talk about #fanfiction. #Writing is hard. Like super hard. You have to create a whole world inside your brain parts and then put a #story together with a beginning, middle, and end. You have ...

What are the literary conventions of the RomCom genre? I explore these in the third in a series of blogposts. #blog #screenwriting #romanticcomedy #romcom https://cheekybats.com/katy-writing/2021/6...

Time for a #creativewriting challenge! Sometimes I really enjoy school assignments. One thing I've always enjoyed is using #writingprompts to inspire myself and get my noodle working. Had this grea...

When studying #massmedia sometimes you end up writing some interesting papers. Here's a history of the #postit note, invented at #3m and subsequently changing the lives of pretty much everyone in t...

When it comes to #writing , I really like to cheat. Especially with #screenwriting because we so often have preconceived ideas about what this genre will entail. I figure, why not start from a spec...

Ever need #inspiration? Where do you go to find it? Personally, I tend to check out a handful of #subreddit(s) that never fail to make me think. #motivation https://cheekybats.com/katy-writing/2021...

We all have a #genre or genres that mean a lot to us. I find that it helps me with #motivation when #screenwriting to reflect on why I love what I love. Sometimes you have to reach back in time and...

Let's take a look at how #screenwriting for the #RomCom has changed over the years. This is the first in a series of #blog posts in which I work to develop a #writing #toolkit for one of my favorit...

Some musings on audience and who I write for. https://cheekybats.com/katy-screenwriting/2021/6/26/who-is-your-audience?fbclid=IwAR2i4aKk7TiSCUYYSGGobwfQu1prTV8MV_tMdHA8QvzSsmUq031TUV7Y3Xg

Love studying screenwriting in grad school at SNHU. School has always been a personal hack for making myself be creative and productive. When money and grades are on the lines, deadlines get more m...