“Sometimes the best stories don’t start in film school… they start in an argument.”
Today’s guest is proof that creativity doesn’t always arrive politely—it shows up in the middle of a late-night debate, challenges everything you think you know, and dares you to prove your point with a story.
After a 22-year career in law, Monte Albers de Leon began screenwriting on a dare—sparked by a heated conversation about artificial intelligence, humanity, and whether we’re fundamentally good or doomed to lose ourselves to technology.
What started as a Notes-app allegory about The Breakfast Club, an AI apocalypse, and Amazon workers in suburban Omaha turned into Good—a screenplay now on draft fifteen, with over 160 international awards, currently in production with Impossible Dreams Productions, and part of a powerful anthology called The Parables.
Monte writes modern fables—stories about morality, choice, and the belief that even at the end of the world, people can still do the right thing.
Today, we’re talking about reinvention, writing from conviction, trusting your voice, and why sometimes the best way to win an argument… is to write a movie.
I’m Erin, and this is Plot Twist Radio. Let’s get into it.
www.theparables.net
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