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Established 1999. The original and still the best and most helpful creative script notes for writers, agents, and studio execs. #screenwriting #scriptcoverage https://screenplayreaders.com

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Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Dec 4

Absolutely.

Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Dec 3

HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: You're only as good as your next script so skip the one you're working on now.

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Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Mar 18

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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Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 23

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taffy bennington @singwithtaffy.bsky.social · Aug 17

why would I set up an offshore account? all that money wet and sinking into the ocean?? no thank you.

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Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 15

I could see that. I really could.

Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 14

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.

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Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 10

If you're ever feeling blue about your writing, just remember that someone greenlit the script for Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny.

Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 9

HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: Good ideas happen in the shower, but great ideas only happen after you've given up on personal hygiene entirely.

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Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 9

REMEMBER: Your script is more than a stack of paper. It can also be a hat. Or a brooch. Or a pterodactyl.

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Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 8

Amens!

Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 8

HELPFUL SCREENWRITING TIP: If you're having trouble getting started on a Vomit Draft of your script, eat some Papa John's pizza first.

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Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 8

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.

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taffy bennington @singwithtaffy.bsky.social · Aug 7

i just flew in from Saturn and boy are my arms vaporized.

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Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 7

Same to you JVB! All's well here and the tequila is flowing! :0 Cheers!

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Jeanne Veillette Bowerman @jeannevb.bsky.social · Aug 7

Great AMA thread on #publishing vrom @louiestowell.bsky.social.

#WritingCommunity #writing #writers #authors

Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Aug 4

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!

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Screenplay Readers @screenwriting.bsky.social · Aug 7

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.

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