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Moth Richards

@MothRichards

Comedy Screenwriter | Father of 3 | Working on a family drama biopic | I post the occasional short story | Currently dressed like this ☝🏻

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Joined May 2023
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80% of your energy comes on 20% of your days
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When are you supposed to not compromise on quality vs. "better done than perfect"?
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The best advice I discovered in my 20s: know yourself
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The times when I learn the most is when I'm FORCED to. When there's no going back and everything is weighing on me figuring it out. Trying to think how I can engineer more of those experiences
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The best advice I discovered in my 20s: know yourself
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Cat farm in Delaware! – at Smyrna, DE
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The most important step of problem solving is realizing that you have a problem to solve. If you never apply that cognitive label you just fumble around unconsciously – at Whitesville, NJ
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We're already 65% of the way through the year!
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The margin for error for single parents is razor thin. I got less sleep yesterday and it nuked my day. Never could recover. Thank goodness reinforcements are coming this weekend – at Whitesville, NJ
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Jersey has strong crazy ppl energy. I thought that coming here and keep running into characters. Not sure what's in the air over here but definitely one of the most memorable states I've been to. – at Lakewood, NJ
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We overuse the word 'want' in Western society. Unless you act on it, you don't ACTUALLY want it. A part of you does, but a part of you doesn't. Until you act, it's just a wish. – at Whitesville, NJ
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Grateful that it's finally feeling like SUMMER in UT! – at Eagle Mountain, UT
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Grateful that it's finally feeling like SUMMER in UT! – at Eagle Mountain, UT
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@storyandplot18 Feb 2025
One prerequisite before I start outlining a screenplay in earnest is that I need to have five great scenes. If a concept can't generate at least that, it may not be ready to commit to it yet. I will keep it on the back burner until it does.
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Watched Wicked last night and spent most the movie thinking how there's a Munchkin named Boq who goes to the University of Shiz
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Success is being excited to go to work and being excited to come home so you can work more
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@thdxr5 Jan 2025
the only career advice i have is make every decision that moves you closer to not having to be on linkedin
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Just won the On The Page 2024 Logline Competition! Logline: After the world's greatest cellist intentionally blinds himself to enhance his hearing, his new intrusive caretaker must derail his isolated and obsessive lifestyle before he finishes his requiem and takes his life.
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A bit of perspectice that helps me not sweat the small stuff: You could fit 1.3 million Earths inside the Sun. And our sun is just one of 300 billion stars in our galaxy
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The usefulness of script feedback often depends on whether the reader knows what's type of story you're trying to tell. Their notes may be completely valid but if they don't understand how and what you're trying to do, it can be useless.
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