Holly
@hollybeach.bsky.social
Screaming into the void is my passion
she/her 💅🏻💖🌸🎀
she/her 💅🏻💖🌸🎀
Watching 10 Things I Hate About You and remembering how devastatingly handsome Heath Ledger is.
Like he is an architectural marvel and I won’t shut up about it 🥵
Like he is an architectural marvel and I won’t shut up about it 🥵
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Watching 10 Things I Hate About You and remembering how devastatingly handsome Heath Ledger is.
Like he is an architectural marvel and I won’t shut up about it 🥵
Like he is an architectural marvel and I won’t shut up about it 🥵
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
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YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to watch Daybreakers! It was so good!
November 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to watch Daybreakers! It was so good!
NAME: Holly Beach
CRIME: Starting a new screenplay before I have the chance to edit/redraft the one I had just finished.
PUNISHMENT: Editing Purgatory
#scriptsky
CRIME: Starting a new screenplay before I have the chance to edit/redraft the one I had just finished.
PUNISHMENT: Editing Purgatory
#scriptsky
NAME: Leah Simmons
CRIME: Immediately emailing someone with an updated draft because I made a change on page 3 🫠
PUNISHMENT: 48 hours writer jail
#Scriptsky
CRIME: Immediately emailing someone with an updated draft because I made a change on page 3 🫠
PUNISHMENT: 48 hours writer jail
#Scriptsky
NAME: Sam Robotham
CRIME: Added 9 pages to the next draft of my script when I swore I wouldn't add more than 3
PUNISHMENT: 1 full week in Writer Jail
#Scriptsky
CRIME: Added 9 pages to the next draft of my script when I swore I wouldn't add more than 3
PUNISHMENT: 1 full week in Writer Jail
#Scriptsky
October 25, 2025 at 6:57 PM
NAME: Holly Beach
CRIME: Starting a new screenplay before I have the chance to edit/redraft the one I had just finished.
PUNISHMENT: Editing Purgatory
#scriptsky
CRIME: Starting a new screenplay before I have the chance to edit/redraft the one I had just finished.
PUNISHMENT: Editing Purgatory
#scriptsky
Writing a horror screenplay is tough when I’m forced to live out the live-action adaption in the United States🥲
#scriptsky #screenwriting
#scriptsky #screenwriting
October 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Writing a horror screenplay is tough when I’m forced to live out the live-action adaption in the United States🥲
#scriptsky #screenwriting
#scriptsky #screenwriting
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Underrated aspect of being a writer: those moments when you talk shop with other writers and suddenly unlock how to tell the story you’ve been working on. Creating with a community rules.
October 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Underrated aspect of being a writer: those moments when you talk shop with other writers and suddenly unlock how to tell the story you’ve been working on. Creating with a community rules.
Procrastinating on BlueSky? No, no, no.
Over here on #scriptsky and #screenwriting we prefer it to be called ✨creating community✨
Over here on #scriptsky and #screenwriting we prefer it to be called ✨creating community✨
October 24, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Procrastinating on BlueSky? No, no, no.
Over here on #scriptsky and #screenwriting we prefer it to be called ✨creating community✨
Over here on #scriptsky and #screenwriting we prefer it to be called ✨creating community✨
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Combining Warner Bros. with Paramount or another major studio or streamer would be a disaster for writers, for consumers, and for competition. The WGAW and WGAE will work with regulators to block the merger.”
October 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Combining Warner Bros. with Paramount or another major studio or streamer would be a disaster for writers, for consumers, and for competition. The WGAW and WGAE will work with regulators to block the merger.”
Just curious, what’s your favorite piece of negative feedback you’ve received on a script?
I say “negative” because although positive feedback can be validating, sometimes it can be equally validating hearing the not so positive feedback
#scriptsky #screenwriting #scriptwriting
I say “negative” because although positive feedback can be validating, sometimes it can be equally validating hearing the not so positive feedback
#scriptsky #screenwriting #scriptwriting
October 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Just curious, what’s your favorite piece of negative feedback you’ve received on a script?
I say “negative” because although positive feedback can be validating, sometimes it can be equally validating hearing the not so positive feedback
#scriptsky #screenwriting #scriptwriting
I say “negative” because although positive feedback can be validating, sometimes it can be equally validating hearing the not so positive feedback
#scriptsky #screenwriting #scriptwriting
Hey @grahamformaine.bsky.social , how many people misspell/mistake your last name “Platner” for “Planter”? And will you be leaning into this with succulents or other small potted plants?
Anyway, I’ll be voting for you, plant man ✊🏻💯 keep up the good work!
Anyway, I’ll be voting for you, plant man ✊🏻💯 keep up the good work!
October 10, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Hey @grahamformaine.bsky.social , how many people misspell/mistake your last name “Platner” for “Planter”? And will you be leaning into this with succulents or other small potted plants?
Anyway, I’ll be voting for you, plant man ✊🏻💯 keep up the good work!
Anyway, I’ll be voting for you, plant man ✊🏻💯 keep up the good work!
Ah, nothing like getting flamed by my family on a Sunday morning 😭🥴
September 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Ah, nothing like getting flamed by my family on a Sunday morning 😭🥴
1. Multi-systemic therapy and systems theory
2. Capitalism & Ronald Regan being the root of the majority of modern Americans’ problems
3. Movies! The good, the bad & the ugly but ESPECIALLY horror movies
The real question is what CAN’T I talk about for 3 hours without prep 😅
2. Capitalism & Ronald Regan being the root of the majority of modern Americans’ problems
3. Movies! The good, the bad & the ugly but ESPECIALLY horror movies
The real question is what CAN’T I talk about for 3 hours without prep 😅
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. Flat Track Roller Derby
2. Screenwriting/Story Structure
3. Split-System, Ductless, and Hydronic Heat Building Science
I contain multitudes 😄
1. Flat Track Roller Derby
2. Screenwriting/Story Structure
3. Split-System, Ductless, and Hydronic Heat Building Science
I contain multitudes 😄
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. STAR TREK
2. Screenwriting
3. Filipino history and culture
Bonus: Current politics, especially in America, and why everything sucks for us all and how it’s rooted in racism and homophobia.
1. STAR TREK
2. Screenwriting
3. Filipino history and culture
Bonus: Current politics, especially in America, and why everything sucks for us all and how it’s rooted in racism and homophobia.
September 26, 2025 at 2:21 AM
1. Multi-systemic therapy and systems theory
2. Capitalism & Ronald Regan being the root of the majority of modern Americans’ problems
3. Movies! The good, the bad & the ugly but ESPECIALLY horror movies
The real question is what CAN’T I talk about for 3 hours without prep 😅
2. Capitalism & Ronald Regan being the root of the majority of modern Americans’ problems
3. Movies! The good, the bad & the ugly but ESPECIALLY horror movies
The real question is what CAN’T I talk about for 3 hours without prep 😅
If you leave your cart in the parking lot without returning it to a designated area and I happen to see, I WILL be asking you about it 🫶🏻
this is why we need to bring back shame
there need to be consequences for being a huge asshole, there need to be standards for how you behave in a decent society
the rules cannot be set by the worst of us
there need to be consequences for being a huge asshole, there need to be standards for how you behave in a decent society
the rules cannot be set by the worst of us
the cultural crisis is straightforward: there are no longer any formal consequences for blatantly anti-social behavior, and the rest of us are constantly just getting lectured that we have to put up with these assholes making our lives worse
September 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you leave your cart in the parking lot without returning it to a designated area and I happen to see, I WILL be asking you about it 🫶🏻
When Teddy Roosevelt was 23 and IN LAW SCHOOL he took one to two years to write AND PUBLISH “The Naval War of 1812”. This man found time to write and publish a book completely unrelated to his career path and you expect me to believe that he is NOT neurodivergent?? I think not!
The rabbit hole of historical figures that were probably neurodivergent is EXTENSIVE (for a reason y’all)
Neurodivergent folx are at the root of the majority of ingenuity and modern advances we see today, in both STEM & the arts/creative areas, and you will never be able to convince me otherwise
September 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
When Teddy Roosevelt was 23 and IN LAW SCHOOL he took one to two years to write AND PUBLISH “The Naval War of 1812”. This man found time to write and publish a book completely unrelated to his career path and you expect me to believe that he is NOT neurodivergent?? I think not!
The rabbit hole of historical figures that were probably neurodivergent is EXTENSIVE (for a reason y’all)
Neurodivergent folx are at the root of the majority of ingenuity and modern advances we see today, in both STEM & the arts/creative areas, and you will never be able to convince me otherwise
September 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The rabbit hole of historical figures that were probably neurodivergent is EXTENSIVE (for a reason y’all)
Neurodivergent folx are at the root of the majority of ingenuity and modern advances we see today, in both STEM & the arts/creative areas, and you will never be able to convince me otherwise
September 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Neurodivergent folx are at the root of the majority of ingenuity and modern advances we see today, in both STEM & the arts/creative areas, and you will never be able to convince me otherwise
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Medicare for All is the answer.
September 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Medicare for All is the answer.
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Of course horror screenwriters process their trauma!! They give it a three-act structure and everything
#scriptsky #screenwriting
#scriptsky #screenwriting
September 24, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Of course horror screenwriters process their trauma!! They give it a three-act structure and everything
#scriptsky #screenwriting
#scriptsky #screenwriting
Just @ me next time Scott 😭😂
For some reason, tenses are my biggest challenge while scriptwriting 😅 anyone whose ever read my work would probably agree to that
#scriptsky #screenwriting
For some reason, tenses are my biggest challenge while scriptwriting 😅 anyone whose ever read my work would probably agree to that
#scriptsky #screenwriting
Screenplays are written in the Present tense for a reason: Scenes unfold in the MOMENT giving the reader a sense of immediacy. Write IN the moment … ABOUT the moment. #screenwriting #scriptsky
September 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Just @ me next time Scott 😭😂
For some reason, tenses are my biggest challenge while scriptwriting 😅 anyone whose ever read my work would probably agree to that
#scriptsky #screenwriting
For some reason, tenses are my biggest challenge while scriptwriting 😅 anyone whose ever read my work would probably agree to that
#scriptsky #screenwriting
When I tell a story, you either get the director’s cut special edition with bonus features or you get the SparkNotes version.
There is no in-between.
There is no in-between.
September 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
When I tell a story, you either get the director’s cut special edition with bonus features or you get the SparkNotes version.
There is no in-between.
There is no in-between.
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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I’m not looking up anymore for inspiration, I’m looking side to side
September 16, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I’m not looking up anymore for inspiration, I’m looking side to side