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HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: You're only as good as your next script so skip the one you're working on now.
December 3, 2024 at 3:10 AM
HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: You're only as good as your next script so skip the one you're working on now.
Screenwriting means always moving forward breathlessly and excitedly, never stopping, never slowing down. Wait. No. Meth. I'm thinking of meth.
March 18, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Screenwriting means always moving forward breathlessly and excitedly, never stopping, never slowing down. Wait. No. Meth. I'm thinking of meth.
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why would I set up an offshore account? all that money wet and sinking into the ocean?? no thank you.
August 17, 2023 at 11:45 PM
why would I set up an offshore account? all that money wet and sinking into the ocean?? no thank you.
To discourage the picket lines studios have removed sidewalks and shade trees and next they're unleashing Old Man Withers wearing a rubber zombie mask.
August 14, 2023 at 11:41 PM
To discourage the picket lines studios have removed sidewalks and shade trees and next they're unleashing Old Man Withers wearing a rubber zombie mask.
If you're ever feeling blue about your writing, just remember that someone greenlit the script for Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny.
August 10, 2023 at 5:47 PM
If you're ever feeling blue about your writing, just remember that someone greenlit the script for Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny.
HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: Good ideas happen in the shower, but great ideas only happen after you've given up on personal hygiene entirely.
August 9, 2023 at 10:18 PM
HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: Good ideas happen in the shower, but great ideas only happen after you've given up on personal hygiene entirely.
REMEMBER: Your script is more than a stack of paper. It can also be a hat. Or a brooch. Or a pterodactyl.
August 9, 2023 at 1:21 AM
REMEMBER: Your script is more than a stack of paper. It can also be a hat. Or a brooch. Or a pterodactyl.
HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: If you're having trouble getting started on a Vomit Draft of your script, eat some Papa John's pizza first.
August 8, 2023 at 8:21 PM
HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: If you're having trouble getting started on a Vomit Draft of your script, eat some Papa John's pizza first.
HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: SHOW, DON'T TELL
For example:
Don't *TELL* us your character is a baby boomer.
*SHOW* us by having him live in a house he actually owns.
For example:
Don't *TELL* us your character is a baby boomer.
*SHOW* us by having him live in a house he actually owns.
August 8, 2023 at 2:47 PM
HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: SHOW, DON'T TELL
For example:
Don't *TELL* us your character is a baby boomer.
*SHOW* us by having him live in a house he actually owns.
For example:
Don't *TELL* us your character is a baby boomer.
*SHOW* us by having him live in a house he actually owns.
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i just flew in from Saturn and boy are my arms vaporized.
August 7, 2023 at 9:47 PM
i just flew in from Saturn and boy are my arms vaporized.
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Great AMA thread on #publishing vrom @louiestowell.bsky.social.
#WritingCommunity #writing #writers #authors
#WritingCommunity #writing #writers #authors
btw if anyone on here has written a kids book (esp middle grade but pic books too) and wants to know more about the publishing process, happy to answer questions - I used to be in publishing before being a kidlit writer. I realise it's such an opaque process. Or if you're an illustrator for kids!
August 7, 2023 at 8:30 PM
Great AMA thread on #publishing vrom @louiestowell.bsky.social.
#WritingCommunity #writing #writers #authors
#WritingCommunity #writing #writers #authors
DID YOU KNOW? Hollywood stopped writing intermissions into movies because it got too expensive to add 15 blank sheets of paper to the middle of every screenplay.
August 7, 2023 at 7:23 PM
DID YOU KNOW? Hollywood stopped writing intermissions into movies because it got too expensive to add 15 blank sheets of paper to the middle of every screenplay.