#Screenwriters

Ken Miyamoto

KenMovies

Hey #Screenwriters. At some point in your #screenwriting career, you’re going to need to write what I call your “Fuck It” script. That script where you don’t worry about anything/anyone

Marquita is Tired

MarqRobinson

White screenwriters: There’s a job you’re up for that you know would best go to a Black (or POC) writer. Don’t take it. But but... no. You heard me. https://twitter.com/marqrobinson/status/1273838250453372928?s=21

Rod Blackhurst

rodblackhurst

Screenwriters of Twitter! Witchcraft has several OWAs that we want to get started on (all of which have source material which we can share). The films are detailed below in

Adam

adam_round_3

cinderella and snow white are like the film equivalents of the first animal that crawled out of the ocean to live on land. like i understand their importance in terms

josie duffy rice

jduffyrice

Y’all will not be happy unless black people suffer to your liking. Doesn’t matter what they do. They have to do it for free, and they have to be miserable

Paige Feldman

pfeld

#Screenwriting contests. A thread:In June, frustrated that my scripts were not placing in contests even though I KNEW they were good, I decided to stop entering them. In fact, every

Eric Heisserer

HIGHzurrer

People have been talking about Queen's Gambit a lot this past month, so I thought I'd share the story of the first time I got a call from Scott Frank.

Melissa London Hilfers

melissahilfers

A thanksgiving message for screenwriters. 8 or 9 years ago, I was a struggling writer who had yet to make my first sale. I had the good fortune of meeting

Paul Bae

MrPaulBae

Before I began my career in TV development in 2018 I had no connections to Hollywood. I largely have podcasts to thank for preparing & guiding me through the industry.

Nikesh Shukla

nikeshshukla

Here is a challenge for development people in television for today: call up the last five projects you rejected by a screenwriter of colour, and stress-test your rejection.https://twitter.com/nikeshshukla/status/1283299172893044736 Did you

bo

chelicerage

heavy topic i guess but while its on my mind-- i kind of hate that people fall back on "you should respect the troops because of the vets with ptsd"

John August

johnaugust

Something I don't see screenwriters talking about is collapsing scenes, but it's something I end up doing on every script. Let's talk about why and how. (thread) Let's say you've

Abigail Nussbaum

NussbaumAbigail

Can't stop thinking about the fact that the question we all had when we watched the trailer for Yesterday - why would you assume that singing the Beatles's songs in

Gerry Conway Thinks Maybe Vote In Person

gerryconway

For my comic creator followers: In the late 1980s, after a decade of pursuing a second, relatively successful career as a screenwriter with writing partner Roy Thomas, I had to

Samantha Horley

SamanthaHorley

I really wish the TWO unproduced screenwriters with overlong scripts I’ve worked with recently could see the overwhelming evidence that people, including industry people, do choose to not watch/delay-to-never-watch overlong

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Set My Heart to 5 is a satirical sf novel by @TheSimonBot in the absurdist mode of Kurt Vonnegut: it's told from the PoV of Jared, a biological robot -