Having a baller idea for a sequel and kicking your little feet in the air when no one's even interested in the original is such an insane thing to do but the heart wants what the heart wants

a 90s bts interview with an englishman, who plays an american and has a jump-scare accent, and his make-up looks good in the movie but it looks too dark under this light, and he chain-smokes through the whole thing and tells a funny little anecdote about his trailer, could heal me

Me: "okay no more research now, I've got too much going on already, let's just write a story around what we have." Me seconds later reading the most interesting shit I've ever read in my life but it's set 160 years prior to my inciting incident: "okay but wait"

Me when Margot Robbie talks about Jacob Elordi picking her up with one arm and shielding her from the rain with the other:

your imagination is such a precious thing, you gotta take care of it, look after it, give it little kisses, the fact you can just create stuff in your mind is such an insane skill, you just forget it sometimes

I wanna write a series of books or a show for the sole purpose of jumping the shark in the wildest ways possible, like fast and furious style, I wanna be like okay fuck it, they're in space now there's nothing left to say

As a big massive Springsteen fan, Springsteen film could've been better, it's like a parody of a biopic and didn't have the grit I associate with him, but he still looks nice in his wee jeans and I think he's nailed the voice too (speaking voice, he did his darnedest with the singing).

happy sunday sorry everything's so awful

my boyfriend brought me a second glass of red wine and I said "I might end up a bit drunk off that" and he said "oh well, it's Saturday, maybe we'll put on Sinners later" and then he just wandered into the kitchen to continue cooking a delicious roast dinner. best night ever lol

Writing's so embarrassing, man. Just making shit up.

mentally I'm here

why is karate kid so good though

I know people say this all the time and it sounds so condescending but it's true. You've got to learn all the rules, and go over them until they are boring you to fucking tears, then and only then, once they're as close to you as your own blood, do you toss them out the window and go goblin mode.

Honestly, you carry a story around for years and then you write it in five days, it's that fucking stupid.

Morning all

back on my bullshit again (thinking I'm an okay writer) for the first time in like 3 months, thought I'd lost my mojo honestly that scared the shit out of me 🫣

Plot is much more important than people credit it for, with regards the reader's expectations and tolerance to go along with you. But just to be clear, you can plug in ANY generic plot around rich and fascinating characters. You cannot plug generic characters into a rich and fascinating plot.

I hope my close and personal best friend benicio del toro had a nice night at the golden globes and hopefully he had a few small beers too

whichever side of things the richest man on the planet is on, it's not yours.

there will be no moving past this decade and whatever is coming so long as I live, this monstrous era has changed my view of the world forever. the only thing I am grateful for is eyes to see it.

I wake up, it's all been a dream, I fell asleep in the middle of the afternoon and now the sun is just setting over the ocean. I bought that little house years ago.

gotta love how americans are like "we need to organise!" that is not true at all, you can just rush him

and it's the 5th already? okay I see how this is going

Trump's not the only problem, he's the symptom of a deeper problem. I'll be very happy when he's dead, but whether he dies today or tomorrow won't ultimately matter, what he represents will still be very much alive and just as horrifying.

America needs to die

time out on using the phrase "kubrick stare" for looking down camera. jim in the office was not doing a kubrick stare. put the phone down.

Watching Crank on the first night of the year because I don't play about you jason

that last scene had me crying tbh I'm not even gonna try and be tough about it

planning on getting blind drunk for the stranger things finale no other way to do it

I don’t care what progress you made in your professional career in 2025. If your biggest accomplishment this year was just remaining hopeful in the current world we live in, I’m proud of you. #scriptsky

Good luck for Screen Pit everyone! 💕 All your projects look great, well done!!

that's it. six month time out on using the term media literacy, it's gone too far around the carousel

watched too much Michael Mann I think (jk not possible)

This is a really good example of why you don't have anyone in a scene that doesn't need to be there. It's also a good example of extended thinking on Save the Cat's Don't Call The Press rule. Less people, more tension. Always.

Watching Harry and Marv get the shit kicked out of them, as is tradition on Jesus’ birthday.

Merry Christmas, Free Palestine

cherries jubilee

officially a tradition

i'd also go insane and live on top of a dumpster mountain if I thought I'd blown it with her

I didn’t read the book I wanted to read while the library had it in and now the library no longer has it in

I am tired of certain people in a way that made me realise I was still being tolerant of them

you're beating yourself up so much about articulating the vision you have for the story that you don't even understand what a blessing it is to have a vision. do you think everybody has a vision? no, they do not.

I hate the whole expanded loser's club aesthetic tbh. You're losers but there’s ten of you? And you're all ride or dies? And some of you are dating each other? No I mean it’s fine.

I'm going to start writing poems again, move to a small island, learn to play a simple instrument, fall in love with a woman

Grandpa, maybe you could come over and read it again to me tomorrow.

My crime novels. A Seance for Wicked King Death is set in 1956 and The Switchblade Svengali is set in 1968. Both feature conman Royce Pembrook, who dabbles in seances and occasionally kills.