Come inside the kitchen!

Across these six weeks, you’ll build a writing practice rooted in discipline and ease and emerge with that holy grail - a finished script!

You’ll learn to stack habits, set clear goals, and create a schedule that supports the writer you’re becoming. I have poured over fifteen years of teaching experience into this six week course. One thing I pride myself on as a teacher is how much my students produce. This will help you to develop material for the ever shifting world while maintaining and building your sense of self as an artist.

This is your invitation to not only begin a project, but to finish one.

In the kitchen, we believe that consistency is its own kind of magic.

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit" - Aristotle

Small daily rituals become heat. Focus becomes flame. Before you know it, the page softens, the ideas simmer, and you begin to trust your own creative temperature.

“Prior Preparation Prevents Poor Performance, as they say in the army - and I always, always want to be ready. Just like Bigfoot.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

What you'll get inside The Pantry:

Everything simmering inside your six-week container.

• Foundation Weeks - Your Creative Ground
• a writing schedule that actually fits your life.
• You’ll choose your goal project, gather your ingredients, and map your writing year so you start from clarity, not chaos.
• Think of this as your mise en place.
• A good chef puts their tools out carefully before they begin.
• Weeks 3-6 - Accountability in Action
• You'll stack your writing time, build stamina, troubleshoot your process, and move from idea → outline → draft.
• This is where your practice strengthens, your focus sharpens, and your confidence expands through repetition.
• Finishing & Refinement
• By Week Six, you’ll have pages on the table, a draft taking shape, and a clear next step.
• You’ll print, read aloud, revise, and climb the glass mountain with your higher self as the head chef.
• Congratulations, you now hold that holy grail in your hands - a finished draft.

What People Are Saying:

"I adore working with the brilliant and extremely supportive Ivana" - Maria Bamford, Comic, New York Times Bestselling Author of Sure I'll Join Your Cult, and subject of Judd Apatow's documentary, Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story

"I hadn't written anything new in two years...Now I've written more in the past 6 months than in the last ten years combined" - Cat Rhinehart, Director, Writer

"I finished an industry ready draft, then pitched and then sold my script to a production company where it is now under development. The instruction I received from Ivana, and the supportive relationships I formed with my classmates, were both integral to my writing process." - Liane Balaban, Actress, Writer

"Sometimes your gut tells you when to work with someone. Ivana’s feedback was nothing short of brilliant. She knew exactly how to help me take my play to the next level" - Leah Eichler, Novelist, Journalist