Hello
I’m Karin
ABOUT
After seeing her first big screen movie 007: License to Kill at age six, a questionable parenting move she still thanks her parents for, Karin naturally became obsessed with writing action-infused stories. The next time she’d see Benicio del Toro was in person, twenty-six years later at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. He was there for the Sicario red carpet, she was there for her first produced short film in the basement of the Palais…same-same.
ROLES
Writer of screenplays, fiction and brand stories.
Blogger of Film & TV.
Fairytale addict, Trekkie & Superhero Fangirl.
In between, Karin traded her small town for a Creative Writing Degree and urban life in the next city over, where she worked her way from magazine intern to interviewing Maggie Q, then went all-in on a freelance writing career.
A writer of screenplays, fiction, and brand stories, Karin operates on the notion that we are, in fact, living in a galaxy far, far away and everyone deserves a Happily Ever After; writing screenplays to support her belief which have landed her multiple Screencraft & Stage 32 finalist spots, an Austin Film Festival Second Rounder, and a Final Draft Big Break Top 3.
As a content creator for over 20 years, Karin’s experience ranges from devising brand stories, marketing strategy, and writing fashion editorial to copy editing manuscripts and excels in the nitty-gritty role of script analysis.
SCREENWRITING ACHIEVEMENTS
THE POTENTIALS “Becoming Aphrodite”
2022 Stage32 Sci-Fi/Fantasy Screenwriting Competition Finalist
2022 Stage32 Female Driven Screenwriting Competition Semifinalist
2022 ScreenCraft Fellowship Quarterfinalist
DC’s TITANS “Bludhaven”, spec script
2022 Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder
HOPE FALLS “Pilot”
2022 Stage32 Female Driven Screenwriting Competition Finalist
2021 ScreenCraft TV Pilot Quarterfinalist
2020 Table Read My Screenplay – Genre: Drama Top 100
BECOMING APHRODITE “Pilot”
2017 ITV Fest Official Screenplay Selection
2017 ScreenCraft Screenwriters Residency Program Semifinalist
DECROWNED
2017 Hollyshorts Film Festival Official Screenplay Selection (an Academy Awards® Qualifying Festival)
2017 ScreenCraft Short Film Fund Semifinalist
THE FLASH “The Conductor”, spec script
2016 Final Draft Big Break Contest Top 3
THE OTHER ROOM, writer + director
2015 ScreenCraft Short Film Fund Semifinalist
FILMOGRAPHY
EYE FOR AN EYE (Short)
2015 Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner
THE BLOGS
A blogger of all things film, television, and screenwriting for Pipeline Artists, Script Magazine, and Final Draft.
PIPELINE ARTISTS
Articles on navigating the industry as a screenwriter, interviews with LOKI writer Katharyn Blair and award-winning documentary filmmaker Michael John Warren, personal essays, and travel for Pipeline Artists: A home for creatives that elevates authentic voices in film, publishing, and the arts.
Wanna know why creative pursuits are worthy work? Let me tell you.
SCRIPT MAGAZINE
Chronicling TV’s greatest hits for Script Magazine: the #1 source for screenwriters since 1989. New Column Coming Soon.
FINAL DRAFT
Around the time I bought my first copy of Final Draft: the industry’s #1 screenwriting software to take my freshman creative writing class in style, I binge-watched my first TV show: CSI. Two decades later, I got to write about it — and many more shows — FOR Final Draft in a little column called the History of Television: Binge-able TV Screenwriters Can Study.
As a hard and fast fan of shows like Halo and Hunters, I also had the thrilling opportunity to interview their showrunners Steven Kane and David Weil respectively — Kane on honoring the Halo spirit, and Weil on his Sci-Fi Apple+ show, Invasion. As well as many other screenwriters rising through the ranks in Hollywood.
EDITING SERVICES
Congrats! You’re literally a superhero: you finished that manuscript, pilot, feature—the THING you had to get on the page. It’s tough, but oh-so-worth-it. Now what?
The part that I love:
EDITING!
I will read your (manu)script from top to bottom looking for spelling, grammar, industry-standard formatting, and clarity issues. My clients have gone on to final in screenplay contests as well as have their work produced!
- Spelling & Grammar.
Sometimes, auto-correct doesn’t cut it. - Formatting.
Did you catch that INT. header location was the same place we’re at now, but three scenes ago it had a different name? I did! - Clarity.
Say what?!
Interested in polishing your manuscript before it hits the contest, fellowship, or that manager’s desk? Shoot me an email at: writergirlkarin@gmail.com.
CONNECT
Call: 778.238.7877
Email: writergirlkarin@gmail.com
Get Social: @WriterGirlKarin
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