This month Smish meets screenwriter Chris Hicks - - @WriteChrisWrite -- who coined the phrase “you can’t polish a turd until you shit it out”. Words to live by! Chris talks about everything from optioning over a dozen short scripts to going viral on the nosleep subreddit. He is an Austin Film Festival semi-finalist and is featured on the 2018 SMISH LIST.

Smish and Chris discuss:

• Titlepalooza - (4:02 )
  
  


• Optioning Shorts - (6:45 )
  
  


• Nosleep subreddit (11:47 )
  
  


• Austin Film Festival (27:57 )
  
  


• AFF server meetup (36:27 )
  
  


• Picking a Genre (41:37 )
  
  

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