Writing Samples
Tranquility’s Edge is a ten page science fiction script sample. This projects showcases balance in voice, character exposition, and visual world-building. With tonal similarities to Project Hail Mary and I Am Legend, Tranquility’s Edge is a genre-bending exploration of self, survival, and the meaning of a life through the lens of the galaxy’s last living resident.
What Survives is a seven page darkly comedic script sample that uses the inescapable tragedy of immortality to expose, develop, challenge, and break its central character. This sample demonstrates flexibility in tone and dialogue, the ability to leverage the unexpected to draw audiences into the world, and deft navigation between quiet moments and plot-propelling action.
H.E.R. is a twenty page procedural pilot script sample with a strong voice, dynamic characters, and compelling world construction. With a disciplined story structure that supports a genre procedural format in the vein of Pushing Daisies and Veronica Mars, this script focuses on the chemistry and tension between its main characters in a world that’s Indiana Jones meets Agent Carter.
By Today’s Standards is a short prose piece that sets a speculative scene and builds its point of view character through a dark, sardonic first person reflection one early evening after the world ends.
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Tranquility’s Edge (Ten Pages)
Nearly nine years after an unthinkable catastrophe stranded her ship and killed her entire crew, First Officer Kate Ealand is alone and adrift. Life doesn’t mean much to her these days, and survival’s a matter of habit more than an actual will to live. But when the readings on Kate’s systems change for the first time in 3,108 days, she’s forced to rethink everything she’s considered fact for the last decade.
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Everyone Lara Maclean’s ever loved, ever really known, is dead. That’s the downside of accidental immortality. But when she attends the funeral of her very last relative, she meets someone who threatens to turn her entire world upside down. Again.
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H.E.R. - Partial Pilot Sample (Twenty Pages)
Inspired by the boom of female archeologists during WWII, this thrilling adventure follows a reluctant hero as she shelves her personal quest for answers and directs her particular talents toward an effort to thwart a fascist plot.
