This past weekend, I found myself locked in a room with four other people, deciding what to do about alien visitors and discussing whether or not we'd have to kill someone. (I'm stretching the truth a little bit. The door was completely immovable and wouldn't close, so we weren't actually locked in) I'm talking about the writers' room for the upcoming series REAL AMERICAN, produced by Perelandra Pictures. Kathryn Postema and I hired writers Penni Jones and Jalexia Stoutmyre t

“Everytime I write something different or something new, it’s a discovery.” – Shonda Rhimes Idioms are often idiotic. And the idiom "Those who can't do, teach," is right up there with being the most misguided. When I was in film school, there were professors who belonged to the can't do: struggling filmmakers who took a job at a university just to pay the bills. They didn't have a passion for teaching and it showed. Showrunner and creator of Grey's Anatomy and Scandal, Shonda