Learning to trust the part of myself that tells me not to do headstands when I'm high.

Read the essay that got me rejected from AFI! open.substack.com/pub/carlypan...

Just wanted to say what a privilege it was to write in the @nycmidnight.bsky.social #screenwritingchallenge this year. I really struggled, but it made me remember what it feels like to challenge myself.

First draft done and off to a reader. Do I hate it? Yes. Did I learn something? Also yes @nycmidnight.bsky.social #screenwritingchallenge

Getting my creativity candle going for the @nycmidnight.bsky.social

This might just turn into a Danny Phantom Spec Script

Here we go on round 2. #screenwritingchallenge #nycmidnightswc

Results are in! Made it to round 2 of #NYCMidnight #screenwritingchallenge !

Where's the button I push that reminds me I'm a good writer and I should keep going? #scriptsky

Being delusional is actually one of my charms #scriptsky #affirmations

Said I would write two pages, but I wrote 1 1/2 and then finished the act. That counts, right #scriptsky?

Trying to submit my feature to Page in time for the late deadline, and all I'm waiting on is my husband to finish the proofread!. Will he do it? And will I have time to make those changes? Tune back in tomorrow to find out.

I opened my laptop to write. I want to write. I want to see what story I can create, but I'm afraid of what'll come out of my fingertips. I'm afraid it will show me what a failure I am. What if I ate? What if I looked into why my foot hurts when I stand? Maybe I'll stop wanting to write.

Going to LA for four days and thinking about moving. Any recs? Should I fall into the tar pit?

Your daily reminder that nobody is free until everyone is free.

This is so profoundly and unfathomably evil. The Zionist state is erasing anyone capable of telling the world the truth about what they have done in Gaza. They are committing genocide. Do not give them what they want. Speak the truth loudly and clearly.

Anxiety sucks because on one hand it's right about the worst case scenario, but on the other hand you deserve to imagine the best case scenario is possible, but anxiety never lets that one stay.

I got a coverflyx review back that was so unbelievably rude and unhelpful, gave me an average score of 1.5 on the overall, but then said "I think this has bones and I could see it on netflix but it needs a page 1 rewrite"... how delusional am if I think this guy is jealous?

The best writing advise I've ever gotten: You can't trust the fans or the haters. But man do I prefer the fans.

I think it's important to share failures as much as success, so to honor that, I'm sharing what it was like to get rejected from an MFA program: carlypandaz.substack.com/p/i-didnt-ge...

The hottest gossip from the #screenwritingchallenge -- I'm officially sending it out for feedback! Action/Adventure is so new to me I have no idea what I'm gonna get. #nycmswc

#screenwritingchallenge Finished my first draft--Infinite more to go!

Yesterday morning I was rejected from my screenwriting MFA. Today I'm back on it with the #ScreenwritingChallenge. #NYCMSWC

I know I'm #blessed because Norman Fucking Rockwell came out a month after my first heartbreak.

I trust the smart people. 🤷🏻‍♀️ “Scientists have discovered a molecular switch that can reverse cancer—turning cancer cells back into their healthy counterparts.” www.newsweek.com/scientists-d...

After my grandfather died, my ex-boyfriend was like "I know what to do" and he put on Zodiac. He wasn't wrong...but...why?

poking my head up from #scriptsky hibernation to offer you a leaf. it's cold outside. get some more tea and keep writing.

This isn't the solution for your probably, but getting Goats would clear this problem up.

If you like to read ebooks (like I do!) and said ebook is not available on Libby or similar library apps, you don’t have to buy from that rainforest-named conglomerate anymore! @bookshop-org.bsky.social is now selling ebooks!

If you listen to your heart, other people may start to hear it too.

Can we just accept that movies are 3 hours again and give them intermissions?

He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. Gonna be thinking about that the rest of my life.

What's furrier, the cat or my earmuffs? The answer may surprise you.

"We Can't be Friends" is a Robyn dupe (positive)

My latest Newletter is up! open.substack.com/pub/carlypan...

Anyone have connections to an experienced intimacy coordinator in the NYC area? I'm producing a short this Spring and my director is building out her crew. DM me if you have someone in mind, please and thank you!! #Scriptsky

You can judge me for stalking my ex's wife on instagram, but if you've just completed all of candy crush, are you really in a position to judge?

That cancelled TV show that you'll never stop thinking about 💔

realizing now that Adrienne Lenker is not the same Adrienne as Yoga With

Wrote my first substack piece! Only three minutes of your time. open.substack.com/pub/carlypan...

tell me this is misogynistic if you must but I do not trust the type of woman who's on bumble bff

Me: I'll write three pages today. Also me: Gets to the very end of that third page but goes on this app instead of finishing

New peak: Watching Marcel the Shell (90 minute runtine) on from from Chicago to NYC (104 minutes)

Just drank from my ironic wifey mug in a zoom of people who don't me well but do know I got married two months ago. Yikes.

oh is it monday

BREAKING: Disney VFX workers have voted unanimously to unionize with IATSE. They become the second ever VFX team to form a union. Marvel workers won their union just last month.

As a former bangs girlie, I can admit it--I did feel superior for having them.

I often think I'm the stupidest person in the room and yet I behave like a know-it-all. Please therapy, help me fix this

My early 20s I was really unhappy so I tried to get by on endorphins