Unscripted: A Dark Night

We offer our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the The Dark Knight Rises shooting. As writers, we often pour our thoughts onto the page…

We offer our deepest condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the The Dark Knight Rises shooting.

As writers, we often pour our thoughts onto the page to heal our souls. If anyone wishes to do so here in the comments, please feel free.

We are a community, and ScriptMag will always be a place you can share what's on your mind, even in tragedy.

Jeanne Veillette Bowerman is a Senior Executive at Pipeline Media Group and Book Pipeline, Editor-in-Chief of Pipeline Artists, Director of Symposium—a year-round conference in the arts, co-host "Reckless Creatives" podcast, partner at Fringe Press, former Editor-in-Chief of Script magazine and a former Senior Editor at Writer's Digest. Recognized as one of the "Top 10 Most Influential Screenwriting Bloggers," her "Balls of Steel" column was selected as recommended reading by Universal Writers Program. A compilation of her articles is now available at The Writers Store—Balls of Steel: The Screenwriter's Mindset. She is also Co-Founder and moderator of X's weekly screenwriters’ chat, #Scriptchat, and wrote the narrative adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Slavery by Another Name, with its author, Douglas A. Blackmon, former senior national correspondent of The Wall Street Journal. More information can be found on her website. X: @jeannevb | IG/Threads: @jeannevb_ | BlueSky: @jeannevb.bsky.social