title: Beyond screenwriting:Insider Tips and Career Advice From a Successful Hollywood TV and Film Writer
author: Sterling Anderson
description: Sterling Norman Anderson has been an award-winning, Emmy-nominated screenwriter for more than twenty years. He has written for some of the most popular network television shows, such as The Unit on CBS, as well as NBC's Medium and Heist. His teleplay, The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn, received three Emmy nominations and won an Image Award. His extensive resume also includes screenplays written for Lions Gate, Disney, HBO, TriStar Pictures, and Columbia Pictures. A graduate in English from St. Mary's College, he also spent five years teaching screenwriting courses as an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. He has written two books on writing, Writing Without Fear (2010) and Beyond Screenwriting (out on Kindle and releasing September 1, 2011 in paperback). The author often guest lectures and panels on screenwriting at film schools and festivals across the country. He has a fifth-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and was a winemaker in Napa Valley.
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  # Happily Ever His
  
  
  ### Movie Stars in Maryland, Book One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Ryan
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I’ll say this here because it’s important.
  
  
  I’m not the kind of guy who believes in fairy tales. Or happy endings, unless
  they’re in the movies. That’s just not the way my life has gone.
  
  
  I’m the action hero, the guy who takes the role and does his own stunts, the
  hard-working actor who just hasn’t quite managed to get his star to stick. But
  I’m working on it. Because honestly? I need the money.
  
  
  Of course, most of the public remembers me for my role in an epic television
  drama called _Charade of Stones_. And after the writers wrecked the whole
  series in one fiery ending episode full of rampaging elephants and flying
  monkeys? Well, I was s