Nolan Ladison

Nolan Ladison is a young filmmaker focused on short‑form narrative works, especially within educational settings. His writing and directing of Omelet Sunday showcases his interest in genre mash‑ups (horror/comedy) and student‑collaborative production. His early recognition in film‑festival circuits for high‑school‑level work positions him as a promising emerging talent in youth filmmaking.

For me, the hardest part about writing... is the writing part. I love thinking about narratives, speculating, drawing, talking about ideas, but when it comes time to put pen to paper, I struggle. We live in a modern day world full of distractions and dwindling attention spans, and shortcuts like Al which stunt our growth as artists. When I'm able to finally start typing, getting in that rhythm, and putting words on a page, that's when the magic happens. It doesn't even feel like work it feels like a story that was a taut piece of yarn getting more and more tangled unraveling itself through your fingertips.

Editing is simple- just read it out loud, make word choices that fit better, dot your i's and cross your t's, spellcheck, spellcheck, spellcheck. After all of that deliberation you may come out with two pages. Don't be discouraged — that's two more pages than you had yesterday!

The way I plan for writing is I have to set a mood — get my playlist on, block out my distractions (writers: LEAVE YOUR PHONE IN ANOTHER ROOM! It helps SO MUCH) and not let up until I've finished what I had to do, or can't write any more. I like to have documents like story outlines and bullet points prepared of what I want to accomplish in the piece of writing I'm making, both to give me a metric of where I am on the list of to-do's, and to also inspire creativity when I'm reaching the end of one thread in a story.

— Nolan Ladison, interviewed for Next Generation Storytellers