What 14-Year-Old You Has To Say: “Make A Movie!”

Tom Leveen
6 min readDec 18, 2020
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When I was 14, I borrowed a VHS video camera from a neighbor friend of mine. I did everything with that camera that one might expect, making stupid short videos starring myself — the kind of thing that would be a low-view YouTube or TikTok video today. It didn’t take long to decide I needed to make a “real movie.”

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Tom Leveen

Award-winning author of 9 novels with imprints of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster; wrote for Spawn and BattleTech. free novel: tomleveen.com/signup