Author Archives: Geoffrey Scheer

It would seem I have quite the uptick in subscribers. Welcome! I’m thrilled to have you! Please excuse the mess. If I knew I’d be having company I would have cleaned … Seriously, though, thank you to all who have subscribed in the last couple days. I like having this teeny tiny little slice ofContinue reading “Well, hellooooooo!”

I spent the better part of my day today applying to a television writing program with the Sundance Film Festival. It was not your typical application process, where you submit your script and logline, pay your $50 application fee and then you’re done. For this application, I had to answer a series of essay questions,Continue reading ““Calamity Jen” – A Personal Statement”

Somewhere in my late-20s, I decided to become a self-styled literary snob. The science fiction and fantasy books of my youth were to be cast aside and purged from my memory. Horror? No time for it. Mysteries? Child’s play. Romance? Oh, please. I would not sully my mind with such tripe. I did read someContinue reading “No Fixed Address – A Defense of Non-Serious Literature”

Remember, like, a year and a half ago? When I came to L.A. and started writing about it? Giving updates on things I was working on? And then I stopped? Well, let’s get caught up … After our 2 months in L.A. were up, my family returned to Knoxville where life went back to whateverContinue reading “Oh, Right. I Came Back.”

So I experienced my first (virtual) film festival last week. If you want to know how I felt about it, please refer to the title of this post. The timing of said festival played a large part in this somewhat impulsive trip to L.A. It was not, as I previously wrote about, the only reasonContinue reading “Well … That Was Underwhelming”

After my contest win for “Calamity Jen” earlier this year, I was put in touch with a producer to discuss possible next steps for both the show and my career. One of the first questions he asked was what other pilots I’d written. The answer was none. What pilots was I working on? Uh …Continue reading “Finishing the Hat: Adventures in (Re-)Writing”

I spent a good chunk of my late-twenties, early-thirties learning to cook, which strikes me as a bit of an odd thing to say. Learn to cook? What’s there to learn? Find a recipe, buy ingredients, follow the directions. Simple. But you do need to learn, of course. Cooking isn’t an exact science, and everythingContinue reading “Mise-en-place”

Why am I here? How did this happen? What’s going on? (TL;DR version: I wrote a pilot, it won some competitions, I’m seeing what I can do with that. For those who want to do a deeper dive, read on.) Last fall, in a fit of Covid-inspired pique, I decided I needed to do …Continue reading “So … I’m in L.A.”