Visiting Kyoto’s Gion district at night is a surreal experience. Like strolling through some future America’s abandoned theme park recreation of the city.
Stores are closed and dark. Only westerners in the streets, all clustering around particular spots for the perfect Insta-approved photo angles.
Japan’s the plan.
Will soon be on a 12-hour flight, so I'm assuming I'll be able to finish this rewrite and then toss out a handful of new features just for fun.
Will certainly not spend the entire time drinking, crying, and failing to fix a single line.
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AI-peddlers are hawking a solution to "I hate writing", while ignoring the "...but love having written" part of the sentiment.
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Embrace the super-deniability. Dare the universe to disagree.
Such an amateurish mistake. Any time my scripts don't place in contests...
Lots of aspiring writers wondering how to make a script "undeniable".
In your screenwriting software:
1. Go to "Settings".
2. Click "Document Settings".
3. Ensure the "Undeniable" checkbox is selected (it's off by default).
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Nah, I'm just being silly (and doing anything to avoid working on a rewrite...)
The Black List Trash Alert Industry Member Trashed It David, Terrible news! Your project was downloaded and immediately dragged to the trash by one of our industry members.
I really should turn off these Black List notifications...
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Congrats, Travis!
If you’re looking for new ways to avoid writing, I recommend it. I do a lot of quality procrastinating by noodling around with the website.
Whoever first realized that if you start a post with "BREAKING:" everyone believes it must have felt like a god.
Organizing documents provides such a comforting hit of Procrastinator's High.
Have successfully spent five hours building up to the idea of writing.
Now settled in to begin the process of failing to write.
Initially I used Wordpress but it seemed like overkill so I ripped it out.
I just wanted a place I could host scripts without relying on Coverfly or NetworkISA or similar.
Hasn’t been vital but it’s cheap enough to keep around.
Walk right up to the biggest screenwriter and insult their logline. This will assert your dominance and garner the respect of the lesser screenwriters.
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Yeah, I don’t envy those mods (and honestly I’ve avoided that subreddit for a while..).
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Aspiring writers’ devotion to imagined rules borders on superstition / religion. Evidence can’t sway them.
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It's so satisfying...
Let's get Numbers and Excel in there for old time's sake. This is too important not to do it right.
A great way to procrastinate is to make a spreadsheet of all your drafts, submissions, queries, reads... And then spend more time making it look nice than you've ever spent on an actual script.
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Bluesky's Like icon alongside a more popular icon of Edvard Munch's The Scream.
New Bluesky feature's proving popular.
"Show, don't tell. Film is a VISUAL medium"
– Guy who hasn't seen The Jazz Singer yet
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Sundance coming to my neck of the woods means that if I apply for the Screenwriting Labs I'll get to feel the rejection even more intensely.
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Congrats!