Once again inspired by my wife and her personal life, I imagined a breakup story but from the perspective of a couple of friends. As we know, sometimes, a friend breakup is even harder than a romance breakup.

This one took a bit of brainstorming. My goal for my previous work was to diversify the types of characters I wrote. For this one, I went back to what I was familiar with: a road trip story about grieving. An impossible situation: what if a death in the family arrived in the middle of…

I was inspired by my wife and her sister and writing about actual Asian things. Previously, I only wrote about white people, but now I decided to stick to what I knew: NYC, Chinatown, and Asian women. The story came about from an idea I had to just talk about an Asian women, her sister,…

I thought of this one after seeing Armageddon Time (2022). Spoilers to follow. After a year, I’ve revisited this story. For fun, I let an AI summarizer broken down the themes and summary and I forgot how dark this one got. I seem to have a running throughline of broken familial bonds and a desire…

This one spilled out of me fast. The Little Miss Sunshine influence is obvious. I disciplined myself into writing a <100 page story. Minot, ND got way out of hand (although I am very proud of it!) and I wanted to keep this one very focused. The basic building blocks fell into place quite quickly,…

This was something I never intended to share. But the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to share it because this was the point of the website after all. Til It’s Over is a personal story, heavily inspired by true events. It’s basically an autobiography. It was inspired by a meeting I…

(Spoilers conclude! Episodes 7-9 below!) Well, if I remember anything about this story, it’s the conclusion. I had planned the ending for this in 2018 and I stuck to it, for better or for worse. I sure do like depressing endings with lots of death, don’t I? 2016: John’s story ends when he goes to…

(The spoilers shall continue! Episodes 4-6 are below) My memory is beginning to get hazy. I’m realizing now as I recall details that I definitely indulged myself in details a bit. I think the character work is good, but I probably could have condensed this into a 2 hour movie. 2016: the journey continues with…

Minot, ND was a massive labor of love that inspired me to create this website. I envision this show as a Hulu miniseries. It’s written as 9 episodes of television. The thing is, the most that anyone ever read was 1 episode. No one found out what happened to the main characters or the mystery…

The Third Roommate was a play I cranked out in a short time frame. And honestly, I think it’s great. I had really developed a strong bond with my friends at Gotham Writers from 2016-2020. We always did the Write In most Fridays (boy, do I miss those because they haven’t been back in person…

The Last Five Days was a story that took me a very long time to write. The basic premise of the story was that there was a virus that essentially wiped out half of the world by making blood pour of their mouths. Very original. The event happened on “Day Zero” and the story takes…

PART I: The Dream This one came to me in a dream. I remember telling this to many people over drinks, at parties, and basically to anyone who’d listen. In this dream, I’m waiting at a surprise party for a friend to show up. I don’t know who we’re waiting for, but we all feel…

I basically ripped off “Warrior” (2011). I had no shame. But this was the first real thing I wrote in my, let’s say, young adult life. In high school, I had written some short stories. One of them was called “Crunchies” and I remember it was published in a writing collection. The story was basically…