Jenna Avery

In my writing daydreams, I write blazing fast, knocking out script after script with ease and joy. (I know, it sounds silly even writing it out!) The reality isn’t quite that, not at all, though a big part of me still hopes to get there. The truth is that I can and do write actual scripts quickly, but the development work takes me longer than I’d like. And this summer I’ve been getting to the bottom of that. I hope.

My screenwriting adventure continues. I’m in an in-between place with writing right now. While I’m putting my focus more and more on the craft and marketing of my work as a screenwriter — exactly what I want to be doing at this point — summer is also here, which means my schedule always gets a little blown up by kids being home more. We’ve had the added complication of having our first-ever Covid cases in our household, so things are a little wonky right now. Do I wish I was farther along?

I’ve wanted to be a writer since 6th grade. My parents advised me that I “wouldn’t make any money” as a writer, so I took a different path . . . for a while . . . through urban and landscape design, then coaching and various other twists and turns, including building an online community for writers and supporting them to do their writing, sometimes to the exclusion of my own.