Drew and Jerusha H., tearin' it up at BYU Theatre and Media Arts' annual writers' retreat

Drew, as you'll recall, actually lives up in Salt Lake City with these here Jared and Jerusha Hesses, plus their various children and small animals. The three of J & J & D wrote a coupla feature scripts together last summer. Both have been optioned, and by film production entities that you have definitely heard of. Mind, actual production is a whole 'nother complicated and alchemical and mysterious thing. Still, finished, and cheques!

In addition to that, D. and Jer. have been collaborating on another script for the last quite a while. It sets out to reveal some shocking information about the true identity of Santa Claus. It also contains many surpassing silly things.

First thing:

They put her up, and poshly!

Those BYU filmsters wanted these somewhat hard-working and occasionally productive ladies to do a session for the conference attendees. Their session was actually three 45 minutes modules, for three separate groups of kids. Just like they were real, working public school teachers! This is what all that looked like:

Jerusha and Drew talked about logistics, routine, wheres and whens. They read excerpts. They showed several inappropriate film clips.

Also, they imparted many pearls of profound wisdom, as well as cracking each other up, and their communicants too. It's fun to be having fun ...

Chums

Later, Jerusha waxed annoyed about the continued and unrelenting presence of certain elderly faculty members. Like these guys:

President and Treasurer of the DD fan club. There's DD, tolerating ...

Meanwhile, outside, geology doesn't much care about film careers. Beautiful setting though; cool for Drew!