When I became a mom, I was told the film and TV industry was nearly impossible for mothers to break into.
That really made me angry.
Not because the people saying it were trying to be cruel. They weren’t. They were just saying what they believed to be true. But it pissed me off so much. Not even for me, but for my daughter.
I thought, is she going to be this limited too? Why can’t she do anything she wants? Just because she doesn’t have a penis?!
She deserved better.
So I said FU to that. And when she was a newborn, I entered a company call to write the story for The Nut Job 3, the animated feature film franchise starring
@arnettwill Will Arnett and Maya Rudolph
@mayarudolphdaily and my story was chosen. It was the first thing I ever wrote.
So today feels big in a quiet way. I became a member of the
@writers_guild_of_canada . Not only because I’m a mom of two, but because I have a reading and writing disability. And up until my mid-20s, I was told that I was slow, and lazy. Sadly, I was told this by multiple teachers and one college professor, who, after handing me back a test, said loudly in front of everyone in the class, “What, do you have some sort of disability or something?”💀
A new friend of mine quietly told me that he did, and that I should get checked if it was something I struggled with. Thank you to my friend Support, because that changed everything.
So I got tested in college and found out. I did, in fact, have a disability, and I smacked the results on that professor’s desk. And from that point on, no matter what the hell I wrote, I always got a solid B+ 🤣
So today, I celebrate my first official Writers Guild project: adapting a New York Times bestselling novel into a feature film screenplay for a major U.S. network, by taking my two girls to Ripley’s Aquarium and giving my hardworking, super supportive hubby the gift of the child-free home today!
And sure, I’m in my 40s. But hey, I am here. I didn’t come from money or connections, and I have a learning disability, and I’m here. So If I can, so can you!
Excited to be strengthening my hyphen.
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