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Amy Suto

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Pain Clarifies Priorities: Getting My Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis and Creatively Recalibrating

Pain Clarifies Priorities: Getting My Rheumatoid Arthritis Diagnosis and Creatively Recalibrating

"I can't walk," I struggled to say, lying on an exam room table at USC's health center six years ago as two doctors stood over me. My hip felt like someone had poured gasoline on it and laughed as they lit the match.

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Quarantine Nomads: How Freelancers Can Live and Work Remotely and Safely During COVID-19

Quarantine Nomads: How Freelancers Can Live and Work Remotely and Safely During COVID-19

I spent most of this year quarantined in Los Angeles, sitting at the dinner table with my cat and Zooming with friends over cocktails and societal outrage for five whole months. I've taken COVID pretty seriously, seeing friends only for the occasional masked hike or social distanced hang.

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Nobody is Going to Make Your Thing: The Cavalry Isn't Coming and Other Hollywood Pep Talks

Nobody is Going to Make Your Thing: The Cavalry Isn't Coming and Other Hollywood Pep Talks

I get a lot of people who ask me how to get started in the industry, i.e. how to sell a script or something or get somebody to produce your idea or get a studio to buy your screenplay or make your podcast or whatever.

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Get Help Becoming a Freelance Writer + Writing Your Novel, Screenplay, or Whatever: Consultations + Writing Coaching Sessions Open!

Get Help Becoming a Freelance Writer + Writing Your Novel, Screenplay, or Whatever: Consultations + Writing Coaching Sessions Open!

In the past decade or so since I started this blog, I've had the pleasure of chatting with so many of you wonderful people about all things writing/creativity/the best coffeeshops in LA.

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Writing Routines: A Holistic Approach to Crafting Your Weekly Writing Schedule

Writing Routines: A Holistic Approach to Crafting Your Weekly Writing Schedule

If you think I'm writing these blog posts in part so I can spend my mornings browsing aesthetically pleasing photos of coffee and desks and people writing in dramatic lighting, you'd be 100% right. Also, it's January, so I'm on that Self Development Kick that we all get when advertisers are hammering into our minds how we can be better, and our new years' resolutions haven't faded from our minds for the next 11 months.

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Inside the USC Writing for Screen and Television BFA Program

Inside the USC Writing for Screen and Television BFA Program

Because I'm graduating soon, it's about time that the nostalgia hit full force. Tonight is my last USC class, ever, and it's all beginning to sink in.I've been doing a few panels for admitted screenwriters and have been answering a lot of questions about the program, so I thought I'd write about what it's been like going to school here for the Writing for Screen and Television program.

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A Week in the Life: Showrunning, Writing, and Sleeping (Sometimes?)

A Week in the Life: Showrunning, Writing, and Sleeping (Sometimes?)

Since January, I've been inhaling coffee and painting my calendar red, as this semester has been the most insane yet: by May, I will have written 210 screenplay pages, produced over 120 minutes of the dramatic scripted TV miniseries CON, and will have met several career milestones, such as getting my first feature assignment, being nominated for a college television Emmy, and graduating from USC's Writing for Screen and Television program (also known as the Writing on Zero Hours of Sleep program) and to top it all off still maintain some semblance of a social life.

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Trailers and Time Management

Trailers and Time Management

The past 8 months have been filled with the creation of this television miniseries, which is airing September 10th on Trojan Vision 8.1. The series will also be available online at ConTVShow.com. If you want to know more about the series, you can read interviews on that website so I don't sound like a broken record every time I blog about this series. Anyways, I'm incredibly proud of how the trailer came out, and can't wait to share the series! It was a challenge to get the show made and on the air, and every hurdle was worth it.

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Writing 100 Pages and Second Seasons, #Scriptchat, & Passing the FBI Fitness Test

Writing 100 Pages and Second Seasons, #Scriptchat, & Passing the FBI Fitness Test

It's been a landmark summer filled with unexpected writing opportunities, a rollercoaster post-production process for CON, and lots of having to explain why my walls are covered in newspaper clippings, red string, and far too many color-coded notecards.

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INTJ: One of The Rarest, Loneliest Personality Types [Introverts and Writing]

INTJ: One of The Rarest, Loneliest Personality Types [Introverts and Writing]

I hadn't put much stock in personality types up until now, but when I started reading more about INTJs, I began to realize that the kind of isolation I sometimes felt (and felt unable to express) even when surrounded by people I cared about had roots in my personality type.

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