I've sunk knee-deep into malaise and need a social media break to escape. You can reach me at davidwales.com

How many blank notebooks does one have to own to be considered a real writer?

'Tracks to a Farm' Ink

I think about this William H. Gass quote all the time: "You have to be grimly determined." Great advice for writers at any stage

then they set upon him and ate him down to the bones and then flew the kite themselves and his jacket too!

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

Sorry. I often forget. #scriptsky #specscriptshoutout

Recent reads... @leahfromsd.bsky.social's FLUKE. It's fun! It's funny! It's better than Hot Frosty! @davidwalesnm.bsky.social's BLACK DOG. One of the most poetic I've read with real tension. @lisalueylutes.bsky.social's OPULENCE. I'd form a Prod Co just to make this thing.

#scriptsky #specscriptshoutout I have a few greats worth noting. @realtimbrennan.bsky.social A Bullet For Mari, a taut black female western. @leahfromsd.bsky.social Headless over Heels, a romcom horror you won’t believe. @avishaiw.bsky.social Tour of Devastation, a mind blowing monster feature.

Thrilled to share that SENSE OF EMERGENCY will be showing at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in February! Would love to connect with any other filmmakers who will be there. And, if you're local, come on out and see a bunch of great films! #filmsky #scriptsky

Tell us about a great peer script #scriptsky I will be broken record about this , but I read @rudiomeara.bsky.social THE ESCAPIST two years ago and it remains the best I've ever read. It's as delicate as it is audacious. I aspire to this level of writing. #SpecScriptShoutOut

The casual use of the "I'm going to teach this person a lesson" strategy is so harmful to mental health and usually only mildly annoying to its target. When used, it should be as a last resort and devastating.

New article titled "WHY I FLED THE US." I'm now in Europe, and hope to never return to the SHITHOLE country in which I was born. In just about every respect, Europe is superior to the US, though this didn't have the be the case. Fuck Trump, fuck ICE, and fuck fascism. Read 👇

Important thread

48 pages into my logline. #scriptsky

I'm feeling a wreck tonight. I guess I'll have to listen to some Wagner.

[Exit Bastard.]

Hey @thehill.com we’re still waiting on your apologies for this lie. 🤷‍♀️

The conservative rhetoric around protecting women makes more sense once you understand that victims exist purely as a hypothetical for them. Once a victim actually claims the label, they become a threat. This is also why they prefer dead women to living victims.

Holy shit, I just checked out the comments on the Fox News website regarding the cellphone video of Renee Nicole Good's death. I figure half are Russian-sponsored trolls, but still. It is ugly.

It should be bigger news that masked agents were filmed hours ago removing potentially inculpatory evidence from the ICE shooter's house, clearly lacking evidence tags or chain of custody stickers. Before we have word on whether he underwent a toxicology screen at the hospital following the killing

Due to my being laid off last year, we're jsut looking to close a small financial gap so I can cover Sundance again this year. Anything at all helps! Thanks! gofund.me/1e0755d92

Telling kick-ass stories but using Auto-Capitalization, Auto-Correction, Auto-Punctuation, and Predictive is like having jacked arms but a weak core. #scriptsky

Thank you, Representative Stansbury!

Hello, folks. X really sucks these days. I’m wanting to switch to this app, but there isn’t much engagement here. Maybe I’m doing it wrong.

just got tickets for a friday showing!

With my 6 features, I've created rich environments for complex characters who navigate a world that is strange, dark, and absurd. My successes are unremarkable and pale compared to a peer enjoying my story. My wise cats tell me that I was born to write something yet undiscovered. #Scriptsky

God dammit. I caught my country in the alley huffing poppers and fucking fascism.

man what the fuck www.whitehouse.gov/j6/

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations

There is a strong performative aspect to being a pharmacist , which involves making sure the camera sees everything you are doing.

This new war is not only illegal, reckless and deeply corrupt, it is the latest in a series of increasingly desperate distractions from the EPSTEIN Files. #ImpeachAndConvict47NOW

DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

prison

Thank God we've gotten all the bad parts of 2026 out of the way in the first few days!

🚨 my new book is FREE today 🚨 The Bungled Heist: A Short Story I think this one will be fun for both my #scriptsky and @cbbworld.bsky.social friends. A quick, funny read about the rise and fall of a legal “heist business”. Get your free copy 👉👉 a.co/d/83BBT79

Puccini > Verdi There, I said it.

A wise person once said, "Hell is other people, but heaven is kittens." or something like that.

unsay that story

prison

Jenny Holzer, Truism: The Beginning of the War Will Be Secret, 1994

Not that I have any faith or hope that it will do a damned thing, I still fired off calls and emails to all my Congressional reps demanding this sub-moronic aggression against Venezuela be halted and the depraved doddering moron in chief be removed. Might wish upon a cloud for the good it will do.

@repstansbury.bsky.social I left a message with your office but wanted to reiterate that, as my representative, I need you to initiate impeachment proceedings against the president.

My only resolution was to clean my closet once this year without its being driven by writer procrastination. #scriptsky

It’s hard to believe a president would time an illegal military attack to distract the public’s attention, but today is the statutory deadline for DOJ to release its report on the Epstein file production. Maybe it is just a coincidence.

FOLKS NEED TO REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot. That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.