Choose a Wound, a Wink, or a Door Left Open Stop overthinking the last page and give your story the ending it actually earned

The ending is not where you prove you are smart. It is where you prove you were paying attention.

#StoryWriting #WriteSky #ScriptSky #ScreenSky #Guide #SelfTaught #Amateur #Inspiration #BookSky #Indie #Quotes #Motivation #WritingCommunity

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Today is the day I wrote WEEDING. It's been sticking in my craw for months. It is neither subtle, nor clever, nor soft. It is raw, angry, cynical, and oh my God does it hurt.

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Today is the day I write "Weeding". No more stalling. No more excuses. No more avoiding emotional rawness & trauma. It needs to be written. Today is the day I write it. #WriterLife #ScreenSky #ScriptSky

Am I in a deeply cynical mood today? Or was the webinar I just attended really that shallow, phony, & scammy? Or both? Whatever the case, I wish that 3-letter #screenwriting org best of luck w/ future projects. Gregarious Gadfly/LMF will unfortunately not be moving forward w/ them. #ScreenSky

You Stopped Writing Well the Day You Started Worrying About Writing Well What children’s books and films get right that most adult storytellers are too smart to try

The pressure to sound “literary” is one of the most effective creativity-killers in existence.
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Throbbing Members and Other Literary Disasters What to do when your characters end up in bed and you end up on the floor

The problem is that most of us were never actually taught how to write intimacy well. We learned grammar.
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Your story already has an ending. It's the middle you have to write beautifully.

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Poster update days are always good days. Thank you @fadeinawards.bsky.social and thank you @finishlinescript.bsky.social.

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Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. And some have greatness thrust upon them.

I've read your work, friends. You've all achieved greatness in it.

May @finishlinescript.bsky.social thrust greatness upon all who entered today🤞🏻.

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For my birthday this year, I asked friends and family for their favorite teas. And now, as I get ready to write each day, I’m sharing one. Come have a tea with me and chat about writing.

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UPDATE & CORRECTION: FilmFreeway just informed me that apparently COERCION did advance to the @fadeinawards.bsky.social Shorts Semis. Thank you, Fade In. 🙏

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No love for me from Fade In Shorts, but @finishlinescript.bsky.social quarters are coming up in two days. Hope to join some colleagues on that list. 🤞

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They Made Five Sharknado Movies, What's Your Excuse? The absolutely unglamorous, occasionally humiliating, but 100% real journey from “What if...” to a credit on IMDB

The Sharknado writers did not wait until they had a watertight concept.

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Hey writers, who's in @fadeinawards.bsky.social Shorts this year? Suffer catastrophic skeletal failure in your tibia if you are, and may we all be humble-bragging tomorrow. 🙏🏻

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Lassie Has a Star, Kim Kardashian Doesn’t, and Nobody Is Explaining Themselves The Hollywood Walk of Fame is stranger, more absurd, and more democratic than you were ever warned.

The Hollywood Walk of Fame, the institution that somehow manages to be both the most exclusive and least exclusive thing in show business.
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Every Action Movie Is a Documentary About a World Where Physics Resigned Fifteen airtight pieces of evidence that Hollywood has been making it up as they go, and we have been nodding along like well-trained golden retrievers

Fifteen things movies insist are real that are, to put it in scientific terms, complete and total garbage.
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Your Inner Critic Has Never Written Anything Either The deeply stupid reason your best work is still sitting in a folder

You never find out what resonates if you never show anyone anything

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You Think Your Writing Doesn’t Matter - Ceaușescu Thought Dallas Didn’t Either What a journey to communist Romania taught me about creative courage

Nicolae Ceaușescu, a dictator so charming they called him “The Romanian Fuehrer.” Real sweetheart of a guy.
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Stop Shoulding All Over Your Creativity A recovering perfectionist’s guide to all the writing advice that needs to be buried in a shallow grave

The worst thing that ever happened to writing was the professionalization of creativity. The industrialization of art.

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Stop Lawyering Your Craft How I Learned to Stop Proving and Start Discovering

There’s writing to prove something, and there’s writing to discover something.

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Your Art Won’t Love You Back So Stop Dying For It A recovery guide for creators who forgot they’re also human beings

We’ve all bought into this gorgeous lie that real artists must suffer.

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They Call This Freedom One woman, her typewriter, and zero rights left to lose (Short Fiction)

The blacklist is a beautiful thing, really. So efficient. One day you have a career, contacts, a desk with your name on it. The next day you’re unemployable.
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You Need to Be More Delusional A Dedication to Unhinged Creation

Every creator you admire was delusional enough to think their weird thing mattered.
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Why Brilliant People Ship Bad Work The uncomfortable truth about why even your heroes miss

#QuickReads #Screensky #Scriptsky #fiction #writingcommunity #freshwriter #novel #author #amwriting #Booksky #Readsky #Writesky #selftaught #substacker #shortstory #editing #wordcraft #writerslife #fantasy #WIP #quotes #typewriters #indiepub #selfpub #amediting #shortstories #Justwrite 🖖

Script page showing a romantic comedy scene in a coffee shop. Jess, 27, feels vulnerable and betrayed, while Mark, 29, is confident and purposeful. They exchange glances, hinting at a connection. Mark comments on Jess's energy, sparking a flirtatious conversation (that is written very poorly).

A brand new screenwriter shows you this scene and asks for feedback, and you only get to give ONE note. 😱 What would it be?

This scene is intentionally rough, and that’s the point. Learning how to prioritize notes is part of learning how to edit yourself.

So, what’s your first fix?

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Guys we have inspo for a new movie plot!! #writesky #amwriting #screensky

It's always a good day when you learn that your work reached somebody.

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Krspeace (@krspeace) The Green-Eyed Monster Before Shakespeare, jealousy was a feeling. After Shakespeare, it was a predator. In Othello, the villain Iago weaponizes jealousy. He whispers to Othello: "O, beware, my ...

Before Shakespeare, jealousy was a feeling.

After Shakespeare, it was a predator.

It’s a masterpiece of psychological horror, written 400 years before modern psychology.

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