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Then a small miracle happens -- they discover they have the same escape fantasy, to head west on I-10 to where she grew up in Corpus Christi, Houston, and Kingsville, Texas. So, on a tight budget and with the expense clock ticking, they travel from Tallahassee to Texas and back, 2,400 miles in a week. But the distance they cover transcends the miles that they drive. Along the way, Claudia recounts the sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, but ultimately courageous Texas family story that defined her childhood and is Ross's heritage -- a story that centers on her own mother's path-breaking journey from a family history of dysfunction, alcoholism, and abuse to create a life for herself and a loving home for her children. As Claudia and Ross spend time together, sharing stories and laughter, she's able to see more clearly the young man her son has become, and he takes responsibility for his unhappiness and finds a solution. With prose that is nimble, vivid, and rich in humor, here is a spirited testament to the crucial bond between mothers and children -- and the healing power of human connection. https://www.claudiahunterjohnson.com/crafting-short-screenplays-that-connect daily 0.75 2025-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5970e52c1b631bdb724ad0f5/1745880296620-KFNVWC5COBWZZADTMM4X/CraftingFinalCover-screen+shot.png Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect - Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, 6th/25th Anniversary Edition Crafting Short Screenplays That Connect, 6th/25th Anniversary Edition stands alone among screenwriting books by emphasizing that human connection, though often overlooked, is as essential to writing effective screenplays as conflict. This groundbreaking book will show you how to advance and deepen your screenwriting skills, increasing your ability to write richer, more resonant short screenplays that will connect with your audience. With her candid, conversational style, award-winning writer and director Claudia Hunter Johnson teaches you the all-important basics of dramatic technique and guides you through the challenging craft of writing short screenplays with carefully focused exercises of increasing length and complexity. In completing these exercises and applying Claudia’s techniques and insights to your own work, you will learn how to think more deeply about the screenwriter’s purpose, craft effective patterns of human change, and strengthen your storytelling skills. https://www.claudiahunterjohnson.com/stifled-laughter daily 0.75 2023-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5970e52c1b631bdb724ad0f5/d3563794-6567-466a-b858-07c5041c2258/CoverWithBlumeBlurb.jpg Stifled Laughter - Stifled Laughter Claudia Johnson’s life changed one hot summer day when she was thirteen years old and she read Chaucer’s “The Miller’s Tale.” Until then, she had no idea that literature could be so alive and so funny. Literature, she discovered, could leap centuries and change people’s lives. Her life changed again in 1986 when the local school board voted to ban “The Miller’s Tale” and Lysistrata from the high school curriculum. Outraged and amazed that anyone would stifle this glorious laughter, she and two other women sued the school board. What followed was a five-year-long federal fight. Part memoir, part courtroom drama, part primer for fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter is the story of one woman’s efforts to restore literary classics to the classrooms of rural north Florida. Johnson’s honest, often hilarious, first-person account of censorship in its modern form provides valuable insight into why what our children read at school remains a controversial issue, and why free speech in America remains a precarious right. For anyone who has ever wondered just how far the religious right will go in limiting free expression, this book proves once again that the personal is political. Parents and teachers, writers and readers – all will benefit from Johnson’s experience and all will be touched by her spirit. *** Pre-order now and get the book early — and autographed by the author — at https://www.fulcrumbooks.com/preorder https://www.claudiahunterjohnson.com/script-partners daily 0.75 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5970e52c1b631bdb724ad0f5/1503757873273-6Z449L4UYUOCGIBBCICG/SC-front-cover.jpg Script Partners - Script Partners: How to Succeed at Co-Writing for Film & TV, 2nd edition Some of the greatest movies and television series have been written by script partners. From Billy Wilder’s legendary collaborations with Charlest Bracket and I.A.L. Diamond to the work of the Coen Brothers, writing teams and their secrets of success are as intriguing as the scripts they create. Script Partners, Second Edition brings together the experience, knowledge, and winning techniques of Hollywood’s most productive partnerships―including Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild), Chad & Carey Hayes (The Conjuring), Patrick Massett & John Zinman (Friday Night Lights TV series; Gold), Andrew Reich & Ted Cohen (Friends), and Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio (Despicable Me; The Secret Life of Pets). Aspiring and established screenwriters will learn how to pick the right partner and projects, co-create character and story structure, co-draft and rewrite a script, manage the creative and business relationship, and collaborate in film school and in the film/TV industry. https://www.claudiahunterjohnson.com/the-other-side-of-silence daily 0.75 2023-01-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5970e52c1b631bdb724ad0f5/1503763693312-HH4M12AFGUNGL4WGIP2G/tosos+cover.jpg The Other Side of Silence - The Other Side of Silence: The Untold Story of Ruby McCollum This compelling and compassionate film follows Pulitzer Prize nominee Claudia Johnson’s nineteen-year quest to penetrate the hostile and mysterious silence surrounding the story of Ruby McCollum, well-educated wife of numbers racketeer “Bolita” Sam and the richest African-American woman in Live Oak, Florida, convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to the electric chair for the 1952 murder of her white doctor and alleged lover, state senator elect Dr. Clifford LeRoy Adams, Jr. News of the interracial murder shocked the nation, the state, and the region, escalating racial tension in Live Oak that remains to this day, more than sixty years later. “It’s still an unbelievably controversial hot topic in town,” Johnson says in the film’s opening. “This story they do not want told.” In spite of the warnings there will be repercussions – and a terrifying death threat – she believes Ruby’s story has to be told because she’s discovered startling new information that Live Oak’s corrupt white power structure has been covering up since 1952. A nationally recognized advocate for free speech, Johnson connects deeply to Ruby’s story in 1991 when she discovers that the white power structure silenced Ruby, on the stand and to the press. Zora Neale Hurston, who covered the notoriously unfair trial, concluded that “the truth lay on the other side of silence.” Johnson wants to know why Ruby was silenced and why she killed LeRoy Adams. She didn’t, as Johnson comes to believe when two courageous African-Americans risk everything and break their long silence. https://www.claudiahunterjohnson.com/led-by-whispers daily 0.75 2017-08-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5970e52c1b631bdb724ad0f5/1503843192657-GPZJ3AQMXU2FRL0U24M8/Patricia+cover+shot+-+Large-2.jpg Led by Whispers - Led by Whispers: The Art of Patricia Ellisor Gaines Led by Whispers documents Patricia Ellisor Gaines' labyrinthine journey to finish a labyrinthine book about Argentine writer and artist, Susana Bombal -- close friend and muse of the poet Jorges Luis Borges. While on this path, Gaines experiences a surprising revelation that alters the course of her artistic intention – and her art. https://www.claudiahunterjohnson.com/new-page daily 0.75 2022-12-28 https://www.claudiahunterjohnson.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2026-03-20