Andrea Mann
@andreamann.bsky.social
British screenwriter, occasional musician, landlocked yacht rock-lover. She/her. www.andreamann.com
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Andrea Mann
@andreamann.bsky.social
· Oct 17
*waves in Bluesky* Hello folks! I'm Andrea. I'm a screenwriter, I love cats AND dogs, and I've got several films currently in the works, including this one:
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Christmas sorted. Prints, homewares, cards and t-shirts inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Designed in Manchester. Made in the UK. gailmyerscough.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Christmas sorted. Prints, homewares, cards and t-shirts inspired by midcentury design, music and architecture. Designed in Manchester. Made in the UK. gailmyerscough.co.uk
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Tom Stoppard: "I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead."
November 30, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Tom Stoppard: "I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead."
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I would go as far as to say it’s actually an important trait to being a good artist, to have a firm sense of who and what you don’t like and what you don’t want to do.
November 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I would go as far as to say it’s actually an important trait to being a good artist, to have a firm sense of who and what you don’t like and what you don’t want to do.
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
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“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
“The number one thing that we’re here to defend as artists is humanity… We’re here not to think about makes human life easy, what makes it convenient, but what it’s like to actually live.”
This. It's a cliche but I truly believe that one half of this country don't know how the other half live.
Some sympathy for this potentially made up woman but I wonder how the poster feels about the numerous people who would love to be able to call a house their own and form relationships with their neighbours but can't because of the housing market. Does their emotional plea count for anything?
Mumsnet is already on the case.
November 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM
This. It's a cliche but I truly believe that one half of this country don't know how the other half live.
Love this piece (and not just because I’m a huge Paul McCartney fan too).
I flew to Canada this week to go to a Paul McCartney concert and I wrote about it here:
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
going through hell, keeping going
on art, grief, and the emotional heroism of just bloody keeping on making your work
open.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Love this piece (and not just because I’m a huge Paul McCartney fan too).
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
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The idea that if you “write your spec” you will find success is a fallacy. There’s a lot of luck involved. There’s a lot of skill involved. Screenwriting is easy to do but almost impossible to master.
But if you want to do it, the only way is to actually do it.
But if you want to do it, the only way is to actually do it.
November 26, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The idea that if you “write your spec” you will find success is a fallacy. There’s a lot of luck involved. There’s a lot of skill involved. Screenwriting is easy to do but almost impossible to master.
But if you want to do it, the only way is to actually do it.
But if you want to do it, the only way is to actually do it.
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Seems UK has same dynamic as US. Left struggles to get elected & is thus fearful of taking ANY risk, alienating their base. Right takes any margin of electoral victory as a mandate to charge unapologetically even further to the extreme. This scenario makes progress impossible & regress more likely.
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Seems UK has same dynamic as US. Left struggles to get elected & is thus fearful of taking ANY risk, alienating their base. Right takes any margin of electoral victory as a mandate to charge unapologetically even further to the extreme. This scenario makes progress impossible & regress more likely.
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This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)
October 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)
Some great advice here (as always) from Carole 👇 #scriptsky
This year’s “Thanksgiving” post isn’t for the grateful writers — it’s for the ones feeling stuck, bitter, and anything *but* thankful. If that’s you, here are a few tips for surviving family dinners, the industry slowdown, and the pressure to fake positivity.
The Gratitude Hangover — Carole Kirschner
Every Thanksgiving my family and I get invited to what can only be described as a spectacular Thanksgiving extravaganza. It’s hosted by one of my best friends and is less dinner party and more...
www.carolekirschner.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some great advice here (as always) from Carole 👇 #scriptsky
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Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Here are my top 10 dogs carrying big sticks!
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Once again, with feeling:
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI will reshape publishing jobs, from editorial and production to marketing, sales and operations. The question is not whether this happens, but who shapes these changes, says Bec Evans 👇 #BookSky
Knowledge is power
ebx.sh
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Once again, with feeling:
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
AI IS NOT FUCKING INEVITABLE
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In a comedy writers room you have to know SO MUCH about what white men ages 36-65 think is PEAK COMEDY that I’m not surprised by this list at all. You must understand the Spaceballs references, you must pretend you are not afraid when you’re shown Sam Kinison’s angry shark eyes.
The movie listed at #1 is so incredibly misplaced that it calls into question the veracity of the entire list. It belongs on the list, yes, but SO MUCH further down. An absolute, credibility-wrecking flub. Boo, @variety.com! Boo!
variety.com/lists/best-c...
variety.com/lists/best-c...
The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time
Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'
variety.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
In a comedy writers room you have to know SO MUCH about what white men ages 36-65 think is PEAK COMEDY that I’m not surprised by this list at all. You must understand the Spaceballs references, you must pretend you are not afraid when you’re shown Sam Kinison’s angry shark eyes.
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Share a ‘90s movie you think deserves more love
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Share a ‘90s movie you think deserves more love
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Again, I get it. WRITING is in fact the key to success as a writer. PLEASE continue to writer your specs! Write everything you can when you can. But remember if you're a budding writing right now, a lost lower level, current or pre WGA these are unprecedented times. YOU aren't the problem.
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Again, I get it. WRITING is in fact the key to success as a writer. PLEASE continue to writer your specs! Write everything you can when you can. But remember if you're a budding writing right now, a lost lower level, current or pre WGA these are unprecedented times. YOU aren't the problem.
Do a vulgar roast… use forbidden words
November 24, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Do a vulgar roast… use forbidden words
Heartwarming: The worst people you know are fighting
PUNCHBOWL: “.. GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term. Here’s one particularly exercised senior House Republican:
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November 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Heartwarming: The worst people you know are fighting
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He's like a splendid cautionary Greek myth; the wealthiest man ever but all he really wants is to be funny, and yet he's been cursed with an singularly abject wit dearth.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
He's like a splendid cautionary Greek myth; the wealthiest man ever but all he really wants is to be funny, and yet he's been cursed with an singularly abject wit dearth.
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This is something that @andrewhickey.500songs.com sometimes talks about that I absolutely freaking love. "Please Please Me" began as Lennon's attempt to write a Roy Orbison song, and if you slow it way down and sing it to yourself you can still absolutely hear it.
They teach people to write songs this way!
Lake Street Dive’s “You Go Down Smooth” started as a college class exercise in rewriting “Got to Get You Into My Life.”
The two songs aren’t the same, but are built from the same parts, like those Lego sets w/ alternate instructions.
Lake Street Dive’s “You Go Down Smooth” started as a college class exercise in rewriting “Got to Get You Into My Life.”
The two songs aren’t the same, but are built from the same parts, like those Lego sets w/ alternate instructions.
November 24, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is something that @andrewhickey.500songs.com sometimes talks about that I absolutely freaking love. "Please Please Me" began as Lennon's attempt to write a Roy Orbison song, and if you slow it way down and sing it to yourself you can still absolutely hear it.
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respect truth in advertising
January 26, 2025 at 2:11 AM
respect truth in advertising
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Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
October 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer
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Fond 90s Pub Memories: A bloke with a bumfluff moustache cockily putting "STUD" as his name on the pool blackboard, and a girl walking up after him and adding "ENT" on the end.
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Fond 90s Pub Memories: A bloke with a bumfluff moustache cockily putting "STUD" as his name on the pool blackboard, and a girl walking up after him and adding "ENT" on the end.