Q&A with Wenonah Wilms: Persistence Pays Off

Wenonah Wilms is an award-winning screenwriter who won the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, and a second McKnight Fellowship all in 2018. She’s written over twenty feature-length screenplays and she’s had six short films produced. Wenonah is a member of the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, and Native American stories and characters figure prominently in her work.

q&aLillie GardnerNovember 5, 2021Wenonah Wilms, screenwriting, screenwriter, self-taught, persistence, discipline, rewriting, first drafts, competition, David Trottier, screenplays, fun, Horsehead Girls Comments

Spice Up Your Discipline

I really think that finding this balance between wildness and discipline is key in creativity, which is not only about thinking of ideas and expressing them, but also about developing them into some form of finished project. I don’t know how wild my mind is, but, having grown up a classical pianist, discipline is kind of my jam.

lillie's musingsLillie GardnerAugust 27, 2021discipline, self-discipline, creative process, novel-writing, revising, rituals, slog, inspiration, motivation, fun, dorothy parkerComment

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