Screenwriter | Graduate @NFTSFilmTV |

London, England
Joined November 2020
The animation I co-wrote is now available to stream online, proud of this one. shortverse.com/films/build-m… vimeo.com/503432752
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"There are dozens of screenwriting books out there, but you will not find another written with such insight, wisdom, and (dare I say?) love for storytelling and storytellers. Highly recommended!"--Michael Colleary (Face/Off) tinyurl.com/4ewysjyw #screenwriting
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I know this may be blanket and random, but I have a few scripts to which I'm attached as producer and/or that I'm simply shopping, in a variety of genres & budgets (many of them on lower end) Any filmmakers or producers looking for quality material feel free to step into my DMs
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Yes, I know things can look a little glum at present. But , for now cheer up. From us.
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Popping my head up to say I'm very badly in need of incoming work/new clients at the moment. If you're looking for notes/feedback on your work, please DM me or respond below so I can follow you/share my current rates. Many thanks
Feels good knowing the notes and POV I’ve given multiple screenwriters this week are 100% mine, authored (literally/figuratively) by me, and no robot in the world could have possibly given them.
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The “busywork” of WRITING A SCRIPT?? [flips table, goes back to reading scripts from actual writers…considers flipping table again later]
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I thought about doing this without any jokes, something I've never done here in 23 years, to impress upon people how much different I feel this issue is from any I have ever covered.
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How fucking cranky does this bear look?
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Positive as this news is, it comes at an actual cost, much higher than yours truly was imagining re: finances Thus I am very much in need of new clients/consults! If you're looking for feedback on your script please reach out. My rates are reasonable, my rep & passion strong
well, at the moment I am once again *knocks on wood* cancer-free. be sure to get your skin checked regularly, friends!!
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I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to have empathy for Michael B Jordan, Delroy Lindo, Hannah Beachler, and John Davidson. Each of them deserves it.
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One AI thing I AM worried about and am genuinely curious how those who are much more excited about AI than I am feel: In the MFA filmmaking class I teach at ArtCenter, decks used to be a total mixed bag. A few great, many very bad. That said, you could watch students get better at writing loglines and summaries and character descriptions as the semester went on. Now it’s obvious 98% are written by ChatGPT. Same voice. Same structure. They're all, as the kids say, "mid". ChatGPT is great for research and organization. But kids relying on it this early? I worry it’s going to make everyone dumber and dumber and dumber. How do you learn to write prose and find your voice and write original dialogue when all you do it ask a computer to do it for you? And this goes for all industries.
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My challenge to all the AI mongers on this site: make a scene as awesome as this. And I don’t mean just imitate it but with RDJ and Brad Pitt in the car, make something original without depending on star power, but still as awesome as this.
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Please get him off LinkedIn...
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You have no idea how much I resent AI for completely ruining a perfectly good sentence structure: "It's not just x – it's y." You cannot write that anymore. Everyone will assume it's AI or get derailed wondering if it's AI. We've been robbed of an entire sentence form.
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No one, apart from you, wants to see that thing you made with AI.
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This is a horror story. A Florida woman who lives paycheck to paycheck was fined over $100,000 for...parking on her own grass. A judge ruled that wasn't "excessive." The Florida Supreme Court won't hear her case. She's not even the first. A thread.
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Bud is enjoying the frost.
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Bud met Santa and his reindeer.
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