It's October, I'm in Canada and it's 93 degrees out right now, this is wild. If our planet wasn't dying I would love this, I hate winter.

Happy World Teacher Day! What teachers are fighting for: Smaller class sizes, better classroom support, more resources to help kids, a livable income. It's a near impossible job. In Canada you need 6 years of university to teach, and we're losing more of us every year.

I thought outsourcing the Nicholl was supposed to speed up the process? It's October, didn't they used to announce the QF in August? I know I didn't make it, but I want to see who did!

After slogging through difficult first drafts for months I'm back to the fun part of writing - when everything magically clicks together.

Today we went for a hike where chickadees ate out of our hands and we had pita pizzas.

It's already free on KDP unlimited (which gives us royalties), but if I made my graphic novel free to download on kindle for Prime Days would you read it and leave a review? I'm still stuck at 20.

Ask and ye shall find. A friend who did the same job referred me to the company they used and they were looking for someone in my city!

I am considering getting into on set tutoring. I have: -A science degree -Teaching credentials -Classroom teaching experience -Individual tutoring experience -Willing to travel Any advice? Leads?

District 12 salute to all the mothers of teenage daughters who you know stayed up all night listening to the new Taylor Swift album. It's going to be a rough morning.

Me: That's it, I'm hibernating! Me the next day: Sends out a pile of open call submissions and queries. I guess I excel at the swan song.

My daughter is making a commercial for period products in her filmmaking class in high school and it's super bowl level comedy.

What's your writing vibe? I would say I'm Kristen Wiig mixed with Christopher Guest.

Teaching second grade today. Can't wait to see some of my favorite little boopers from last year. I miss them but am happy not to be doing it every day this year!

When my book club of 10 yrs disbanded, 2 of us kept it going as a hiking book club. Today we brought her dog and discussed our last two books. Then I had pasta.

He's a real ladies man.

My friend and I are planning a hibernation from Halloween until Christmas. We'll have menus, reading lists and watching lists and creative projects. We still have to work/parent but everything else will be pure joy!

I don't mean to brag but today I'm going on a hike to some sand dunes with a weiner dog.

Today I went for a 10.5 km hike with a friend then had salad and dino shaped chicken nuggies because balance.

I've always paid to be a writer: Author copies, editor, contests, coverage, subscriptions. I'm DONE. My motto for 2026 is: You pay me. At the very worst, it at least won't cost me anything.

Every year around this time I grapple with the thought that this might never happen for me.

Feeling discouraged. Submitted to 118 ISA gigs since June, keep getting 'not selected'. I realized they probably put projects forward based on how many awards they have, for contests I can't afford to enter. Paid membership is only the baseline.

Feel a little defeated to see this today. It's close enough to make me uncomfortable. I've had Present ready and shopping for 2 years now, but can't get it in the right hands. It's only a matter of time before someone else does it. deadline.com/2025/09/just...

The best part about muting and blocking all shitposters is that when some asstwaddle comments on my post I don't even see it!

Trying to apply to Canadian TV networks I've learned: Very limited # of shows greenlit. To apply: You must have a Canadian EP attached. EP must have a show on the air in the past 3-5 years. This leads to the same few spots to the same few people on a closed loop.

My graphic novel sold 40 copies (plus 13 kindle unlimited reads). It took 3 years to illustrate. The reviews are great, it's just nobody knows it exists.

If you had to make a hard financial choice would you cancel: -Family pool/gym membership -Family vacation

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Solved a story problem while eating shawarma. Is there anything this magical food cannot do?

To the 4th grade class I taught today, your attempts to guess my age where I was in my 20s and 30s every time made this 48 year old woman's day.

After nearly 3 glorious months off, I'm back in the classroom teaching today.

I too won this laurel.

Was up before sunrise in my writing shed this morning with coffee and reading @leahfromsd.bsky.social latest wacky romcom.

My writing this year has been painfully slow progress and dead end first drafts, but I keep chipping away at it hoping for a clear stretch.

Spent the afternoon biking the trans Canada trail with my youngest daughter with a halfway intermission at the fancy donut shop.

Watching footage from our zero budget mockumentary and feeling torn between not wanting anyone to see my terrible acting and wanting to share this story with the world using what I have available.

Let's not punish Indie filmmakers and authors who don't have any other choice but to use a corporate platform for our work? Distribution is impossible on both fronts, we're regularly ripped off as our choices are spending money we won't make back, complete obscurity or making pennies per book/watch.

The talented graphic designer @laurenmilberger.bsky.social made me this amazing custom poster for my Mariah Carey time travel christmas movie! Check out her page for her website or dm her.

Cancelling your subscription with the evil empire? You know who has a huge FREE collection of movies and TV to watch? Tubi. If one of your films is on there, drop a link. Let's promote indie filmmakers while fighting the man in one go. #scriptsky #filmsky

This script is amazing, I am not surprised it's a triple SF at AFF! I know how it feels to not be able to afford to go and miss out because feeding your kids always comes first. Please help her make it if you can!

Cleaning my email and I'm amazed how many people (both peer and pro) asked to read a script and were never heard from again. 🤣

Thrilled to be joining such an amazing group of fellow writers! @theiwclist.bsky.social

This has got to be a good birthday omen for the year ahead right?

Spent my birthday in two of my happy places. Cracked a story problem while mountain biking.

I wrote 3 features last year. 2 of them struck out in both PAGE and AFF. The 3rd I didn't even enter and there might be news for it soon. 👀

Me: I'm tired after yesterday, I'm not going anywhere today. Also me: Sure I'll come on a hike with you to photograph your homemade stuffed animals in the forest.

Swam laps for half an hour then went on a 10 km hike where we got chased by wild turkeys then ate homemade poutine made by one daughter and cake made by the other. Pretty good Sunday.

My scripts are almost always fun to write, but some are a complete gas! For #SundayFunday here are the ones from the best time I've had writing!

" A directional impulse that keeps pointing in the exact same direction" is exactly how I would describe my passion for writing movies. I can't help myself.

My daughter made her stuffed animals a real tiny pizza. We've been making them tiny food for years and are creating an animated web series about them.

Just a wild Saturday night, just making tiny real pizzas for a photo shoot with her stuffed animals who have their own IG account. The lore of these toys turned into a script, a graphic novel and now an animated web series we're making together.