Authors Anonymous

Action. Sun goes down.

Sun, go down.

I'm sorry.

What's my motivation?

Oh, you good boy.

Oh, you good-

we thought this was going

to be a reality show.

Yeah, like the Kardashians.

I love that show.

You know that I love that show.

I wanted to do a show like that.

Really?

A documentary?

What's that?

So... so this is going

to be a documentary

about our writing group?

I thought... I thought it was

gonna be just about us.

Just... I mean not that it

should be just about us,

'cuz you know, there's

more people...

But I mean we are the main

people in the group, honey.

I thought-?

Yeah, I mean I guess this is

going to be like that thing

that we watched on cable

the other night.

The holocaust.

Yeah, the holocaust...

That was-

long, right?

That was very long,

but, I mean...

It was, it was...

Like-

powerful.

Heavy.

Powerful.

Yeah. Heavy.

But, I mean...

We-we love documentaries.

Yeah, we love 'em.

We do.

We love them.

Don't we, Winston?

Does the red light mean

that the camera's on?

So all of this was?

What?

Hello.

Maria! Can you come

get Winston, please?

Winston, you gotta go.

Maria.

Hold on. I gotta find Maria.

We can't, we can't.

Maria!

Well, welcome to

our humble abode.

We moved here a couple

of years ago-

Maria!

Honey.

It's kind of a dream,

dream house for us.

You know what, maybe?

We should...

I'm not dressed.

Can we just start over?

Our writing group meets

every Tuesday night.

Mostly at Alan and Colette's.

Sometimes we rotate.

That's me with

the dorky glasses.

I love coming to the group.

Everyone has such

constructive feedback.

Natasha the Russian peasant

dressed oh so slowly.

Consumed totally, completely,

absolutely, definitely

by endless thoughts of Yuri

fondling her breast.

His other hand groping her

womanhood, knowing any second

that she might explode.

Her chastity spraying

across the ceiling

like passionate grafitti.

Natasha never thought such

a moment possible.

Have I satisfied you, Natasha?

Yuri had inquired after

their fourth round of

vodka soaked love making.

Niet. Not yet, Natasha stated.

Exhausted, but greatful.

Comments?

I have to say I love the

way that Yuri is developing.

You do?

Colette, I love the character.

Ok.

If you ask John k butzin,

you're gonna have to explain

why this woman would

go awol on her husband.

What?

That's so iffy to me.

I was a little

bothered by that too.

Why would Natasha betray a

reliable, dependable husband

for a washed up young punk?

Well...

I've been rewriting and

rewriting and rewriting

and I don't know.

Poodles, it's ok.

It's not ok, Alan. It's not.

I mean I can't find the

motivation for Natasha

like everybody else can.

So I can't, I'm not a writer.

Woah, time out, ok.

The dude is good in bed.

That is all the

motivation she needs.

Listen, I would torpedo

chapter 2, and just pull

all the focus back onto

this nijinski dame.

Natasha.

Yeah. I-I agree with

John and William.

That's exactly what

I was gonna say.

I think just make it more

clear that Natasha wants

to be closer to Yuri.

Writing can be such a solitary

existence, so it's great

to have this outlet where

you can exchange ideas

with other writers.

I mean with this group, it

really is all for one

and one for all.

I work two jobs.

Delivering pizzas

and cleaning carpets.

Which are good jobs for a

writer 'cuz you meet

lots of interesting people.

My whole life I dreamed

about playing football

for the fighting illini.

And uh, I got to go to the

university of Illinois

on a full ride college

football scholarship.

But, right at the beginning

of my freshman year,

I blew my knee out.

And that ended that dream.

And that same fall,

I took English 101.

Dr. buchannon.

He introduced me to steinbeck

and Hemingway and Fitzgerald

and he encouraged me to write.

It just set me off on a whole

new creative journey.

Hi, I'm originally

from Prescott, Arizona.

I followed my mom out

here about four years ago.

There she is back there.

Stop.

My parents are divorced.

Not fault.

So I moved here and, um, got

into a few writing classes

I just loved it.

24/7 total dedication.

The writing always comes first.

That's my mantra.

She even had it sewn

onto a pillow for me.

Everything that John k. Butzin

has learned about writing

comes down to two simple words.

Tom Clancy.

That's write my friends.

The man is a genius.

Does his research.

All of those nitty

gritty details.

Now that is writing.

Why'd I come to LA?

Um.

Because I knew you were

here and you'd lend me

a hundred bucks if

I asked ya, right?

Right? C'mon.

Thank you, babe.

I already got her number.

Maybe I'll text her.

Maybe I won't.

I don't know.

I'm an optometrist in glendale.

Yes he is.

And I am a full time writer.

Yes, you are, honey.

And our last name is mooney.

So you can call us moonies.

We get that joke all the time.

Yes, everybody says it.

It's very funny. It's uh...

Moonies.

Right now I have two unpublished

novels and I'm working

on a third that I'm

really excited about.

It's called pizza to go.

It's about a guy named

Scott who meets all these

interesting characters.

Um, I'm pretty happy with

what I've got so far.

But it's only a hundred

pages long right now.

And I'm stuck.

I haven't written in two weeks.

Hannah keeps teasing me

about my writers block.

I think about her a lot.

She's all I think about.

I really want to ask her out.

My latest project is called

sleeping on the moon.

It is about pain and rejection.

And, oh...

It's not about a moon.

It's confusing.

But actually the moon

part is more of a...

You know? It's not

really what it is.

It's not an actual...

No one's sleeping on the moon.

But there's a word for that.

It's a um...

You know? Um, um.

Metaphor.

That was actually crawling out

of my mouth, metaphor, so...

Thanks, ma.

John k butzin has one agent

that is very interested in

roaring lion and there's a

publisher up in oxnard

who's reading it as we speak.

Plus, there's a certain cousin

who has a best friend who has

a neighbor that has an in

with Mr. Clint Eastwood,

so it looks like roaring lion

will be roaring at the

I'm just not sure how the other

members of the writing group

are going to handle so much

success by one person.

I just hope they don't all turn

out to be a bunch of pussies.

I am here because of bukowski.

Charles bukowski.

Greatest writer ever.

Period.

LA is his town, man.

I mean, if I'm going to be

a writer then I need to

walk in bukowski's shoes.

You know?

Capture and experience the

plight of the working class.

Colette here is the real writer.

No, honey, you are.

No, you are, you are.

You are.

I am, I am.

You're right.

I'm more of an idea guy.

Mmhmm.

You know, I get

these great ideas...

But I don't always

follow through. You know?

In a lot of things.

Not just writing.

I'll show you. I'll show you.

Idea for romantic novel.

No.

Make that idea for

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