Natalie Krinsky always knew she wanted to become a writer. In college, she started writing a column at the Yale Daily News.
Since it was 2002 at the time, these sex-column articles were published online, sort of like a blog. Readers enjoyed the articles so much they started to forward the column to friends at other colleges.
“I sort of began to have this real following based on my silly student sex column. So I then I wrote a novel based on the column.” The novel was called Chloe Does Yale, which was published after she graduated.
These days, she’s best known for working on shows like 90210, Grey’s Anatomy, Gossip Girl, Red Band Society, and the new film, The Broken Hearts Gallery.
In Krinsky’s latest film, Geraldine Viswanathan (Blockers) stars as Lucy Gulliver and Dacre Montgomery (Stranger Things) stars as Nick. The story follows Lucy after she decides to leave past romance trinkets in an art gallery, based on the Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia.
In this interview, Krinsky discusses writing character point-of-view as prose first, her fascination and pet peeves about rom-coms, why working in a writer’s room is invaluable for a writer, and how to create daily victories as a screenwriter.
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