i tweet KILLER WRITING ADVICE. screenwriter & darkwing duck influencer. she/they

Joined December 2013
KILLER WRITING ADVICE: NEVER use WE SEE or WE HEAR. DIRECTORS and SOUND DESIGNERS decide what the audience SEES & HEARS. Do NOT explore a character's emotional state, that is for the ACTOR to guess. Who do you think you are, DESCRIBING LOCATIONS? A writer's ONLY job is the TITLE.
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Bad Bunny tickets doubled after the Super Bowl announcement. And that might just be the beginning... Gametime data shows nearly 100% price increases for select shows, with signs of another demand shock coming soon. Read the full breakdown 👇 gametime.co/blog/bad-bunny-t…
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well i forgot to censor his name and the bots found me immediately. mf is like voldemort on this site
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hey writers, i got a favor to ask... could you help me promote @writebadideas (writebadideas.com)? normally i'd just buy an ad but there's NO WAY i'm giving elon musk money lol
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Have you heard the #writing tip "Show Don't Tell?" The August WRITE BAD IDEAS box comes with handy reference cards for visually describing emotional moments. #WritingCommunity #writingtips #screenwriting #writers
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GIVEAWAY TIME! The WORST PITCH for a book/tv show/movie gets 2 free Write Bad Ideas boxes! tiktok.com/@write.bad.ideas/…
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You don't need to be a better writer. You need to write worse, and more often.
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KILLER WRITING ADVICE: your dialogue must be DEEP FRIED AND CRISPY. nobody likes SOGGY DIALOGUE
Writers will share their ‘great notes’ and the notes will be like “the characters feel real and the dialogue is crisp and sounds like how people talk” or “the story is gripping and kept me on the edge of my seat!” Which are not notes. These are words in a sentence (just barely).
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why do you think people like this are so threatened by you calling yourself a writer 🙃
Replying to @JackCuthbert
I've always said you can only call yourself something when you get paid for it. Write a sceenplay? Fun! But until you sell it, you are not a screenplay writer. Same goes for filmmaker, director, etc. Anything unpaid is just an expensive hobby. I think that sort of realistic viewpoint would help a lot of misguided dreamers.
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find me at @rikkatnite.bsky.social :)
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rent controlled buildings are burning down, and new construction is typically exempt from rent control. i'm worried that so many people have lost their homes in an even more permanent way than we understand
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if i type in CAPS that means I AM ALWAYS RIGHT
I wonder what inspires a person with very little experience/knowledge to go on screenwriting Twitter and present themselves as a guru. I've been doing this longer than I care to admit, and I am TERRIFIED to give advice... 1/2 🧵
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KILLER WRITING ADVICE: Do NOT add JOKES to your scene description. Readers HATE extra words added for ENTERTAINMENT.
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Do you hear that sound? It’s every comedy writer in the world whispering a reverent “FUCK” under their breath
“I did not have sectional relations”
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per a friend who worked on the show... in an obvious twist, the women who got promoted were, actually, VERY qualified, had also been writer's assistants for multiple seasons, AND with the show since season 1
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Phils play Mon-Wed Birds play Thurs Jews play Fri Union plays Sat
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happy labor day. never forget what working people can accomplish together :)
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