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Link to display lightbox. Instagram post 18006580838299331. Do not pursue a Creative Life if you highly value security, stability, and tangible proof of your toils or talent. Do not join this broken, beautiful parade if praise, promotion, or the admiration of industry leaders feeds your lifeblood.
- Abbey Cleland Lopez
Abbey Cleland Lopez writes fiction, TV, film, and essays. In...
- Hunting for HILPOs
Unofficially, my hunt for literature’s most precious and...
- Abbey Cleland Lopez
Abbey Cleland Lopez writes fiction, TV, film, and essays. In 2020, she became Vice President of Development for Oak Room Media, a full-service TV production company in Los Angeles. Since 2007, she’s optioned, sold, and packaged a diverse slate of TV and film properties.
Abbey Cleland Lopez. Writer: Detours: The Film. Abbey Cleland was born on October 16th, 1984 in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Now, she splits her time between LA and the Midwest, writing fiction, TV, and film. So far, she's found this arrangement results in great fun, and wild, irrepressible productivity.
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- Hunting For Hilpos
- I Done It, and I Done It A lot.
- Note: There Are No Steadfast Rules For Detecting The Hilpo.
- So, What Do We Do with them?
We writers can learn a lot from beagles. And of all the wise beagles in the world, my favorite is my dear friend, the celebrated canine treasure of Columbus, Ohio,MOE the BEAGLE. (Sorry, Snoopy.) Moe is always curious, always hungry, and always greets each day with boundless enthusiasm, despite his advancing age and a recent, rather painful, knee s...
My chronic habit was truly petty kleptomania: I was just over four feet tall and bird-boned, and the objects in question, well, you can’t get more petty than the occasional, gingerly removed sheet of paper. But to this very day I feel badly about it, robbing future readers that way. And here’s why it really mattered: I took the good pages. The gem-...
Naturally, what may be a hilpo to one, may not reach that status for another, as we each walk the planet with a unique set of emotional and intellectual triggers. But in general, it’s fair to say that if something is funny or poignant to you, it will be to another, and it’s worth testing. The hilpo’s habitat is everywhere, and I’ve found the sooner...
In my experience, sometimes a character grows out of a hilpo. For instance, “What kind of a guy does Sudoku with a pen?” Other times, they prompt a “what if” question that leads to a hilarious or poignant scene or subplot. Like, “Maybe she thinks he visits campus to bump into her, when in actuality, he’s going back to school in preparation to enter...
Smart, Kind Ones: I urge you to take a few minutes and read my interview with Amalee Dahman, mother, wife, teacher, Syrian-American, and exemplary human being. As a writer, I believe all of my...
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