Adam Lavis

I read scripts on a pay-what-you-can basis. Look out for a tweet or send me a DM if you want to more details or to be added to my reading list!

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Who's got a screenwriting or storytelling query for me? I'm inbetween script reads at the moment, so opening my DMs to serious screenwriters who want to ask me, a script guy with nearly 30 years of industry experience, a sensible question. As always...

Got a few projects lined up, shorts and features, looking to meet new DoPs so come and say hello and drop a link to your showreel below :)

@storyandplot Sapheneia

So much of good screenwriting is simply being clear about your intent. Know what you want out of each moment. - What do you want the audience to visualize? - What do you want them to feel? Be so CLEAR that the reader absorbs it the first time, and you're top 90% of writers.

The creative industry will try to convince you that constant visibility equals relevance. But quality work will always find its way when you let go of needing to be liked and trust that your unique perspective is already valuable.

I've got some time between now and the final mix of my film to read some scripts if anybody out there would like some notes? Send me a message :)

I know what's wrong with your script without even reading it. You're trying to write something that "works". Instead of asking, does this work, ask: Is this innovative? Will actors kill for the role? Is it culturally valuable? Is this uniquely me? AI has derivative covered :)

what's a double entendre? Can anyone fill me in?

@storyandplot I have a simple trick for that, after the first rejection I go into hiding for 5 years. Just another 485 years to go before my plan succeeds!

It's so easy to get discouraged after 5 or 6 rejections. After nearly 30 years, I can still fall for this. I have no idea why. It's silly. Every screenplay I ever sold had at least 30+ passes. Minimum. And I am being conservative there. I'm sure I have sold projects that have well over 100. Yes, you will have people around you and on your team who lose faith. That's a genuine risk. But it's your job to be the one who doesn't.

Language is a bridge made of spider silk

@pollybirkbeck Let’s face it you’d just waste that 2 hours on your phone instead

Just watched Everything Everywhere All At Once. I am still staring at the credits thinking ‘why have I just wasted 2 hours of my life on that kaleidoscopic headache of a film?’

@LukeBarnett Everybody want to be a filmmaker until it comes time to actually make the film

I feel bad for a lot of the AI bros on here. It's like, you can tell they so badly want to be filmmakers and want to be accepted by the film community as filmmakers, but because they wont be, they are forced to sort of band together in their "these people don't get it and are scared" cave. Look, go get rich using AI to grift fake books or text books or generate 10 second slop that gets millions of views. That's your best bet. Truly. No one is seeing your AI film and thinking of you as a filmmaker. At best, you're commissioning a painting and then calling yourself a painter and that's not only sad, but really boring. At least go get rich off this.

@elonmusk @WallStreetApes When has a rich man ever been remembered in history?

@WallStreetApes Just a statement of fact

Jim Ratcliffe, one of Britain’s richest and most influential men explains the state of the country “You can't have an economy with 9 million people on benefits and huge levels of immigrants coming in. The UK is being colonized — The UK is being colonized by immigrants”

@cheo_coker You underestimate how lazy humans are

This is the Pandora's box that's being opened. Nothing will ever have an end. Fans will endlessly play Choose Your Own Adventure, amusing themselves to the point that no one even watches shows anymore,And eventually, the entire system will collapse.

@JaceSerrano I hope to script read in the Olympics but when I turn pro I’m passing everything

Professional script readers be like: “This is good but the script I read 6 weeks ago was a masterpiece, so PASS”

@aibytekat Because you didn’t check with yourself how you feel about it before writing about it

As a guy who works in tech, is building with AI, and writes a weekly newsletter on the topic, I can't explain as well as Ben Affleck. How is that possible?

@AndreaDamario10 Well done bro and Godspeed

@AdamLavis Officially hit 1 year a couple days ago and I couldn’t relate to something more 😂

I've been freelance for 10 years now. I'd highly recommend it to people who enjoy working as hard as they possibly can, whilst simultaneously feeling unemployed

Some people love to punch down on emerging screenwriters, but honestly I think if you're having a great time doing this, you're already winning. Not all art needs to be an all or nothing capitalist venture. A lot of us are here for the journey itself.