I'm a senior software engineer with an MS in Comp Sci who spends most of his workday fixing other people's bugs while fantasizing about making movies. Classic.

I've been studying film for about ten years the obsessive kind of studying. During a call-response job a few years back, I had basically unlimited downtime, so I split it between Instant Pot recipes and every filmmaking YouTube channel I could find. I burned through Robert McKee's audiobooks narrated by the man himself (genuinely the only correct way to experience his work), Blake Snyder's Save the Cat, and enough "how movies are made" deep dives to become completely useless at parties.

The problem is I kept trying to actually write scripts. I started so many on MS Word that I almost stopped writing words altogether. I tried Ulysses thinking some flavor of Markdown would get me close then they flipped to a subscription model and I rage-quit. I have been half-building a screenwriting app in the back of my head ever since.

Then a family friend went through some relationship drama, I felt the story brewing, sat down to write it