One of the joys of teaching is seeing those you teach blossom and mature. The feelings created during that process are unmatched by anything I’ve ever experienced via writing.
Back in the twenty-oughts, one of my students at TVWriter University was Chicagoan Joselito Seldera. I’ve previously described him as “an excellent student, a fine writer, and a pretty damn good guy,” and he’s still all three of those things.
Once upon a time, way back in those dim, early days of the 21st Century, I had an Online Workshop student named Joselito Seldera. An excellent student, a fine writer, and a pretty damn good guy, Joselito was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2003 SPEC SCRIPTACULAR contest with a tasty little WWII drama that miraculously also managed to be an eye-overflowing love story.
How good a writer is Joselito? Let me put it this way: A few years ago, he was my first choice as the writer of a film for a Chinese production company I consult with. Joselito had to pass, however. He was in L.A., working hard at learning The Business from the ground up.
And now he’s going to tell you what he’s learned…and what he’s doing with it: