THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH will have a live reading of selected pages on August 31 in Winchester, VA. ✊ (That's the same day the short DOORS is screening.) See you at GenreBlast!

Amazing news: My first festival short film, "Ask for Help" (2022) is a FINALIST selected by Etheria Film Festival - Genre Films Directed by Women via FilmFreeway.com

Amazing news! My short film DOORS was just selected by GENREBLAST via FilmFreeway.com! It'll screen in Block 8, Regional Shorts. ALSO, my feature script THE KNOCKING AT THE MARSH is a Virginia Feature Screenplay Finalist! www.facebook.com/GenreBlastLLC/

Congrats to IWC member Gina DeAngelis @ginadewriter.bsky.social for making IWC’s Best Of ’25 list with The Knocking At The Marsh. Great things are happening in ’25 #WeAreTheIWC #scriptsky #ScreenPit www.iwclist.com/bestoflist www.iwclist.com/team/gina-de...

DOORS has *not* been selected to screen at the Richmond International Film Festival -- but was awarded "semifinalist" status. Not sure how that works, but okay. via FilmFreeway.com

Finished today (binding and label). Pattern is "Postcard from Sweden," made with Kona cotton.

I need you to know that my 91-year-old grandmother gave this a like on FB.

Just remembered there’s a snake called a boomslang

Congrats to IWC member Gina DeAngelis @ginadewriter.bsky.social for making IWC’s Best Of ’25 list with The Knocking At The Marsh. Great things are happening in ’25 #WeAreTheIWC #scriptsky #ScreenPit www.iwclist.com/bestoflist

Here's the DOORS trailer 😏 vimeo.com/1030068543 #scriptsky #filmsky #spooky

A reminder that women’s sports are kept separate from men’s not to protect women from always losing to men, but rather to ensure that no man ever loses to a woman. I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

Here's the DOORS trailer 😏 vimeo.com/1030068543 #scriptsky #filmsky #spooky

DOORS trailer here: vimeo.com/1030068543?s...

My new short film DOORS (Gosh Darn Media) will premiere MARCH 23 at the Indie Short Film Fest in Charlottesville. My short script BA will also have a live table read that morning. (It won 2nd place!) Fest schedule: isff2025.eventive.org/welcome Follow @doorsshortfilm on Instagram for more!

I can't stand reading the snark here. 😟 Back into hibernation I go.

Congrats to IWC member Gina DeAngelis @ginadewriter.bsky.social for making IWC’s Best Of ’25 list with The Knocking At The Marsh. Great things are happening in ’25 #WeAreTheIWC #scriptsky www.iwclist.com/bestoflist

Today was the day. Now I have a new pillow cover.

Finished the quilt top today. It would have been done sooner but it sat dormant for several weeks in timeout when some of the intersections wouldn't line up. I fixed the worst of them (four times each 🙄) but others can F.O. I love the colors. #postcardfromswedenquilt

This'll be a quilt top in the coming days. I hope.

i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

I just stopped in to say I cooked this tonight, with bucatini, and it is *amazing.* Gift link. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1024...

feeling awful about myself and life. have avoided social media for weeks. logging in just to say Hello, and: For me, reading books, doing stuff with my hands, taking care of my dog, and watching cooking shows is all saving my life right now. Social media is emphatically not. Wish you well.

12/12/24 caps a 7-year adventure during which I wrote 10 feature screenplays which have miraculously been produced. Don't know if I can repeat that success, so, I'm going to enjoy the moment while I can. For those interested in the trailers, here ya go! www.davidhalchester.com/features

Edgar Allan Poe would have loved smoke detector batteries dying at 2am

Companies should go back to making those educational videos they did in the 1950’s where a kid name Billy would say “you know pa? I really don’t think there are any uses for cork” and then a demon would appear and go “oh is that right Billy? What if I fucked up your entire life right now using cork”

When you see big "Resister" accounts that largely post generic memes and reposts of other "liberals" Please understand these big follow for follow accounts are ✨farming✨ you. Once their size gives them perceived credibility, they shift into disinformation. Please see my examples below:

Authors receive a payment every time you borrow a book, audiobook or ebook from libraries in 35 countries. Those countries include the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Germany to name but a few. Borrowing a book helps the author’s pocket as well as yours.

lol China's state media is sad about Bluesky because it's not an easy propaganda distribution channel like X (and Facebook) www.semafor.com/article/11/2...

Anyone who has a PDF of the screenplay for SMILE, please lmk. (Not a transcript.) Need it for research. #scriptsky

All of this.

Eight years after we wrote the Indivisible Guide to organizing locally and pressuring Congress to block the Trump agenda, we’re offering our best advice on how everyday people can organize to stop Trump 2.0: indivisible.org/guide

So I've lived with booksellers & known authors for years & no one ever really made this clear. Not a blame thing, just saying, it was never spelled out like this. And if that's true for me, with the weird array of people i know, it's probably true for a LOT of people. Every Single Pre-order Matters

Update: the calls are working! We're now officially flipping House members over to our side to vote against this "non-profit killer" bill coming up for a vote tomorrow. Keep calling! indivisible.org/resource/tel...

this is literally the future republicans want: public funds for segregation academies and religious private schools that actively discriminate against LGBT students or students with special needs

Do you like film? Television? How about really cool, vetted, emerging writers? Then check this list out -- a collection of writers working in the film and television spaces.

so—Dems handwringing and lying about Harris running (and losing) on trans rights are pushing the same disinformation campaign as Trump’s anti-trans ads

They hope that by targeting one group, the rest of us will cower. Such an environment gives an open invitation to fascism. It leads to discrimination, then segregation, then internment, and still worse. A compassionate, good people would not permit this to happen. We will not be divided against /6

It is little known, but the first book burnings in Nazi Germany didn’t target Jewish writers. It was the burning of the library of the Institute of Sexual Research, which was a safe home for trans people. It is no accident that fascists today walk that same dark path by targeting trans people. /5

I would like to speak up today for the trans community. You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

Resist RFK Jr’s appointment, contact all your reps, voice your objections. Your voice matters 📢🇺🇸 Use @resist.bot for easy connection to your reps. Do it now, while Harris/Biden are still in WH.

Just called my Dem congressperson. Will you please call your Congress person at their DC office *right now* or use the Resistbot tool Matthew gives us? Just text “SIGN PCDICI” to 50409. It takes seconds.

my heart is broken, i feel there is no longer room for me in this world, and yes, everyone around me went on with their day

Love bugs, I want to warn you about Maga Block Lists. Please be judicious when using them. Many of them are created by Maga and might have a few ugly looking accounts at the top but if you scroll down the rest are resisters. And some big ones! Don't just one click away some of your favs!

With this significant influx of users, we’ve also seen increased spam, scam, and trolling activity — you may have seen some of this yourself. Our team is reviewing these accounts, and you can help us by reporting them by clicking the three-dot menu on each post/account.

If you're an indie filmmaker (producer, director, screenwriter, actor, etc.) and your film is on a free streaming service (Tubi, Plex, Roku etc.), shout it out. Throw out a link. Brag a little, even if it's a shitty thriller like mine. You got it made. People can see it. Rejoice! #ScriptSky #FilmSky

To my fellow dude creatives: The war on women people said wasn’t happening is fucking happening out in the open. The culture war is raging, but WE ARE THE CULTURE. Follow women creatives. Promote women. Produce their work. Hire them for your projects and rooms. Women can’t win this one alone.