by Mary DeRosa Hughes | Oct 5, 2018 | Creativity, Encouragement, Feature Films, Films, Perseverance, Procrastination, Rejection, Screenplays, Self Love, Short Films, Writing
This is an admittedly bizarre title choice for someone who once bawled her head off when taken on a fishing trip as a child (early indication of a future vegetarian). But the words came to me the other day when I realized that – as much as I like to think I’m a...
by Mary DeRosa Hughes | Jan 27, 2018 | Books, Creativity, Encouragement, Novels, Perseverance, Screenplays, Self Love, Writing
“We are all peers in the human experience.” – Maru Iabichela We’re all made of the same basic building blocks. We all eat, drink, work, sleep…lather, rinse, repeat every 24 hours. The Constitution even confirms that we’re all created equal. But somehow, we just don’t...
by Mary DeRosa Hughes | Jun 19, 2016 | Films, Gratitude, Resistance, Screenplays
“Life is a journey, not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Mr. Emerson’s quote is famous for a reason. It really is an ideal way to see your existence. Adopting a viewpoint like his makes it easier to handle frustrations. To see great progress in small...
by Mary DeRosa Hughes | May 25, 2016 | Creativity, Encouragement, Gratitude, Perseverance, Resistance, Screenplays
We all have a back catalogue of things we regret doing or saying. And unfortunately, it’s all-too-available for us to use against ourselves when Life uses our self confidence as a piñata. When we’re already low, our monkey minds go to town…blowing up minor missteps...
by Mary DeRosa Hughes | Jan 13, 2016 | Films, Screenplays, Short Films, Writing
This morning I watched the rough cut of my new short film Waiting for Goodbye with tears spilling into my coffee. Being that it explores the feelings of a young woman as she spends her last morning with her beloved dog, I suppose my reaction was a good sign. We were...
by Mary DeRosa Hughes | Sep 17, 2015 | Rejection, Screenplays, Writing
Years ago when I was still a scripting newbie, I decided to enter a fairly well known screenplay writing contest. One of the perks of coughing up the $50 entry fee was receiving an evaluation of your script by a professional screenwriter, so I was pretty excited...
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