by Ian Delaney
It all began, as most things seem to in an actor’s life, with a touch of vanity. I have been writing short films and scenes for years as an effort to hire myself and friends when the established Industry hadn’t yet. What I discovered is that my talent for writing, meager as it may be, lies entirely in writing great material for other people. Looking back on the body of work my friends and I produced, the roles I wrote for myself were “poor players” indeed, whereas the roles I wrote for my friends held all the comedy, all the drama, and therefore helped propel their careers far further and faster than my own.
This realization led me to an important question: how can I write better stories and characters for myself?
