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San Miguel de Allende: Your Screenwriting Muse Around Every Corner
San Miguel de Allende is one of those rare places that feels both timeless and vibrantly alive. I first visited in 1999, and made it my...
Lorraine Flett
11 hours ago2 min read


Beefing Up Your Script: 5 Steakhouses to Fuel Your Fall Intensive
We’ve been roaming San Miguel since 1999, and over the past 26 years the city’s steak game has gone from modest to magnificent. Here,...
Lorraine Flett
3 days ago2 min read


Beets, Baguettes and Beats: San Miguel’s Screenwriter-Friendly Lunch Sets
Writing a screenplay demands precision, passion and that elusive spark of magic. You will find all three at San Miguel de Allende’s most...
Lorraine Flett
7 days ago3 min read


Character in Motion: Eight Ways We Roam
Some days, I roam with purpose. Other days, I drift, following my intuition, wondering what new thing I'm going to discover. Either way,...
Lorraine Flett
Jun 233 min read


Storm Yourself with “What Ifs”
Set a timer for eleven minutes, 11 seconds. That’s it. Magical 11:11 to go full feral on your imagination. Write down as many What if ?...
Lorraine Flett
Jun 142 min read


Just One Line
Why your next creative breakthrough might be laughably small. I’ve been rewriting a script I began eons ago, originally titled Meet My...
Lorraine Flett
Jun 101 min read


Steal A Structure
I’ve loved the Coen Brothers ever since Blood Simple knocked my socks off in 1984. Hard to believe that was 41 years ago. Some of my...
Lorraine Flett
Jun 62 min read


The Screenwriter’s Guide to Doing Nothing
Oops! Been a tad remiss in updating this blog because we've been busy writing, and, yes, walking, and sometimes talking out loud. I'm on...
Lorraine Flett
May 293 min read


Write Out of Order: Skip to the Good Stuff
A Creative Boost From San Miguel to Your Screen You’re staring at your screen. The next scene is supposed to be two characters walking...
Lorraine Flett
May 202 min read


Talk It Out: When Your Dialogue Won’t Work, Say It Out Loud
You know what the scene needs to do. The structure is solid. The tension is right there, waiting. But the dialogue? Flat. Mechanical. A...
Lorraine Flett
May 173 min read


Five Affordable Stays for Screenwriters That Charm Without Splurge
San Miguel de Allende isn’t just a town—it’s a setting, a scene, a slow unfolding of story in every lavender dusk and sun-warmed wall. If...
Lorraine Flett
May 163 min read


How to Brain Dump Your Way Out of a Screenwriting Dead End
You’re halfway through Act Two, and the story stalls. Your characters stop talking. Your structure sags. You feel like you’ve outsmarted...
Lorraine Flett
May 153 min read


Seafood, Sunsets and Story Beats: San Miguel's Splashiest Seafood Spots
Writing a screenplay takes precision, passion, and a little bit of magic—the same ingredients that make San Miguel de Allende the premier...
Lorraine Flett
May 132 min read


Why Walking Solves Your Screenwriting Problems (Yes, Even in Act Two)
If you’ve read Wandering Words: How Roaming San Miguel Unlocks Creativity , you already know we believe in the magic of movement. That...
Lorraine Flett
May 123 min read


Top 7 Quick Tips to Crush Writer’s Block (in San Miguel de Allende)
We’ve all been there. The blinking cursor. The empty page. That creeping dread that maybe you’ve forgotten how to write entirely....
Lorraine Flett
May 113 min read


🎉 Skeletons, Sugar, and Soul: Celebrating Día de los Muertos in San Miguel de Allende
If you think Día de los Muertos is just Mexico's version of Halloween, think again. In San Miguel de Allende, this sacred holiday is a...
Lorraine Flett
May 92 min read


Wandering Words: How Roaming San Miguel Unlocks Creativity
San Miguel de Allende doesn’t just invite you to look. It insists that you notice. The city’s narrow cobblestone streets, bursts of...
Lorraine Flett
May 71 min read


Pasta & Plotlines: Five Italian Restaurants in San Miguel That Just Might Save Your Script
You know the feeling. You’re s tuck on page 72. The midpoint isn’t working. Your main character is having an existential crisis. And so...
Lorraine Flett
May 23 min read


Magic Keys: Five San Miguel Hotels That Unlock Another World
There’s arriving in San Miguel—and then there’s arriving through the right door. This city isn’t just a destination. It’s an unraveling....
Lorraine Flett
May 13 min read


5 Reasons to Write in San Miguel
There’s writing to get the job done. And then there’s writing that shifts something inside you — because of where you are while you do...
Lorraine Flett
Apr 292 min read
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