She was groomed to be alone in a room for hours on end after spending her childhood practicing the violin, so writing a novel came rather naturally to her. Susan is excited to add debut novelist to an eclectic resume which includes unwatchable TV news reporter, failed concert violinist, and dazed mom to two adolescent girls.
She was hoping to be a newscaster, however the local TV station didn’t see any natural on-air talent and hired her to produce and write promos instead. So she went to Harvard University, which she got her AB in government from, which she has thus far failed to put to good use. Susan was given every opportunity to become a concert violinist, but failed. And she enjoys rock climbing, enjoys skiing.
When she’s not busy writing, and even when she is, she can be found streaming Red Sox baseball and drinking way too much wicked strong coffee. It was then Susan took it on and directed it herself. The fifth, a woman, asked her a bunch of questions during a conversation they had, and Susan did some rewrites, not based off her ideas, but based more on her questions, and she finally took full ownership of it, and the female director did something else. It was kind of a revolving door of actors and directors coming in and out of the project. She just accepted it, and wanted to get the movie made with the most money possible. The movie got set up, with her just as the writer, but a producer told her not with them as producer, since she is a first time female director. She figured nobody would want to see a fifty year old doing something like that. She believed she was going to have to change a whole lot, like the scene about a woman playing beach volleyball in a bikini. Susan was glad that Sharon had proposed this, despite having resisted at first because she was scared. But she had another idea, to age it up and play the 25 year old. Sharon was the one that came to her, saying she couldn’t get the script out of her mind, but was uninterested in playing the mom and would do it because she liked the script and story. The project fell apart after the actress hired to play the 25 year old went to do something else. Originally, “All I Wish” was meant to star a 25 year old in the lead role, with Sharon Stone being offered the role of the mom. Her movie “All I Wish”, which she wrote and directed, won the WIFTS screenwriting award. Once she realized that it was the writers having all the fun, she transitioned to screenwriting and then directing. She went to Los Angeles originally, seeking a change of scenery and sunshine and worked in television and film production. Susan Walter spent her younger years working her way up the Hollywood ladder, taking the longest road possible in becoming a filmmaker, which she did after almost two decades working on film sets.
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