The USC Scripter Awards - Diversity
It's Awards Season - specifically, USC Scripter Awards time - which I've already established is the coolest awards event on the planet . You know, because I have the credentials and clout to establish such things. The short explanation for my fangirly enthusiasm is this: The USC Scripter Awards honors both the author of the original work (novelist), and the screenwriter who adapted that work into a film. The long version is somewhat more complicated, and it involves a little word with a very, very big meaning: Diversity. Now my white-girl, middle class upbringing establishes about as much in the way of credentials and clout to discuss this as my proclamation of the Scripter Awards' coolness. But stay with me here, because I'm going to veer around in some pretty big arcs before I come back to my point. Patrick Rothfuss, author of the Kingkiller Chronicles , and blogger, speaker, gamer, and philanthropist extraordinaire, spoke to a group of authors a