No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

He also wrote directed and edited the short film Rusty Forkblade. He wrote his own screenplay Shrapnel in 2008 and is being produced under the name Killing Season after receiving generally good praise. Evan Daugherty has written the movies Killing Season and Snow White and the Huntsman and has been named as the screenwriter for the upcoming film adaptation of Divergent.

The screenplay also won first place in the 2008 Script Pipeline contest and was featured in the 2008 Black List a list of screenplays deemed ready to produce by select individuals but have not been yet. Daugherty's original screenplay Snow White and the Huntsman was sold to Universal Pictures for $3. 2 million and was later altered by John Lee Hancock and Hossein Amini.