I hadn’t realized until we chatted recently that movie-making has always been her secret love. Still, despite all her success as a novelist, Francesca wanted to work on her screenwriting chops, with the goal of adapting the original Weetzie Bat story - now called Dangerous Angels - for the screen. Coming up next year is the latest entry in the Weetzie Bat saga, Pink Smog. I’ve heard librarians refer to Weetzie Bat as “a modern classic.” Since its publication, she has written a host of other books, most set in a gaudy, glittering version of L.A. Back in 1989, Francesca shook up the staid world of Young Adult fiction when she published Weetzie Bat, a simultaneously lurid and romantic novel about young punks in old Hollywood.
I don’t usually get students who are well-known authors. Imagine my surprise when Francesca Lia Block enrolled in my online screenwriting course.
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