Mike Boland: Crew, gaffer/lighting technician and screenwriter in Vancouver, Canada.

Tessa Shaffer
What's your day job?

What is your "day job" and does it hinder or help your writing? And if you're a full-time author can you share a bit about your journey?

Tessa Shaffer

@amara franklin Walking the dog with a playlist before writing is a great idea to stir up creativity, I always forget how oddly inspiring walks can be! Thanks for adding that!

Tessa Shaffer

@Bertilda, I would love to read a book written by someone in the mental health field diving into the complexity of characters!

Sephera Giron

I've been a full-time freelance novelist for a few decades but I always have side hustles. I like to take jobs that will help me explore human nature. I do background work in movies/TV, dog walking/pe...

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Mustafa Knight
Iraqi-American writer needs to network

Well, I thought I'd introduce myself to this community. So here's a copy and paste of my bio on IMDb :P 

Once upon a time in 1980, a baby boy named Mustafa Al Shakarchi and his family escaped Bagdad, Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war and found refuge in San Diego, CA.

And due to the growing anti-refugee /...

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Mustafa Knight

Thank you Mike!

Phil Clarke

Welcome, Stevin. Also a big fan of Seagal and KITT. Happy to chat anytime.

Mustafa Knight

Fortunately I am as well! Not so much my older brother he eventually changed his name from Michael Knight to Marc :P

GENRE: Thriller, Horror
LOGLINE:

After a blackout traps them in a remote mountain truck stop, a grieving, dysfunctional family must band together to battle a swarm of rapidly-evolving digital creatures before the lights come back on and they spread through the grid.

Maurice Vaughan

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Nathaniel Baker

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Tasha Lewis

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Richard "RB" Botto

Hi Mike. I'm RB, Founder and CEO of Stage 32. As a screenwriter, producer, actor and filmmaker, I know first-hand the challenges all creatives face finding work, landing representation, launching projects, securing funding and simply making the connections that will make a difference in their careers. That's why I created Stage 32. Since our launch in September of 2011, the community has grown to 1,000,000+ members representing every country on the planet making Stage 32 the social network uniquely populated with the most creative people on Earth.

This is a network for you, built by you. Like m...

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Amanda Toney

Hello Mike -

Welcome to the community! I'm Amanda Toney, the Managing Director at Stage 32. Since 2013 I've been proud to oversee Stage 32's Next Level Education, which provides you the most up-to-date tools necessary to become a better creative.

Over the years Stage 32 has worked with over 500 industry executives and professionals to teach online webinars, classes and intensive labs exclusively for you - our Stage 32 community. We bring you instructors who have worked directly on some of your favorite films, TV shows or theater productions to teach you in-the-trenches information that you won...

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Mike's network

Mustafa Knight
Marcelo Grion
Marty Chartrand
David Obaniyi
Tasha Lewis
Richard "RB" Botto
Amanda Toney
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