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@HeidiHornbacher I’m want to read it!

I am honored to be in such great company - so many talented friends on this list. This story based on losing my dad means a lot. Cheers to FINDING FANTASTIC

@pescami Here is the link again: x.com/tararhenley/st…

Tara Henley is a great interviewer, a pleasure to be on her show. Hers is the premier often-heterodox-but-eminently-sane podcast in all of Canada.

@FinishLineScrip You’re right you’re right I know you’re right - Carrie Fisher

Your ideas need repetition WAY more than you think. Most writers are terrified of being redundant. So they mention their central insight once, then move on, hoping readers caught it. If you’re not repeating your main ideas through different stories, you fail to make your point stick. Find fresh angles to hammer home the same core truth — and they do it with enough variation that it feels like discovery rather than repetition.

@silverpebble I found it! He looks like he is very happy but also trying to remember what his wife told him to get from the store

My brain’s not well at all today-depression, but I made this photo to try to lift my dark thoughts & have hidden a tiny owl in it. If you find it &/or your brain likes this image maybe let me know below? Connecting with other humans is another way to lift very low mood 🌿

@PhoenixBlackNow I’ve read a lot of classic scripts that notate locations very similarly. Reads clearly to me. (AFF reader and script coach)

Used the WEAPONS formatting - which I absolutely love - for my latest script. I hope whoever reads it realises I’m not making it up. Can already see the ‘it’s not how it’s done’ coverage.

@andreaberting Feel the feels ! 😊 we are here for it.

Unfortunately I have a disease where if people compliment me and I really needed to hear the compliment I simply start crying

@michaeldbarndt Amazing stuff. Thank you Michael.

A few more (brief) thoughts on how to write a good ending: pandemoniuminc.com/endings-addend…

@kvpi Ha! I was staring at Vino Volo at 6am this morning…I’m so glad they took good care of you.

United club EWR – the crack of dawn. The bar opens in about 10 minutes, but the bloody Mary brigade is already circling. I have to decide if I want to be one of them! Meanwhile, this Taylor ham sandwich is probably the most New Jersey thing in this lounge.

@kvpi The Bloody Mary brigade is nothing without you!

@stevemoth Sorry to have missed this, looks amazing! 😻

My review: it’s f’n excellent!!! Absolutely stoked I got to see it in Austin!!!

@andreaberting Andrea your writing is terrific and we need you there all the same!

Finally got the answers I've been waiting for, and that's a great big "Thanks But No Thanks" for both BIG SKY COUNTRY *and* RED DEVIL at this year's AFF. Kind of figured as much at this stage of things! Congrats to all who placed this year 💜

@SeanTwoNames What are even waiting for

BABYLONIANS rise up

@andreaberting Yes! Exactly! I agree! ☝️

Didn’t get a Second Round notification for AFF Comedy Feature today, so I am simply choosing to believe that I have won the whole darn thing

@andreaberting But I’m interested in seeing Deeply Evil Andrea. What color is her hair?

Got to thinking about my nemesis™️ earlier and I just find it so incredibly funny that I am like Deeply Evil in this one specific woman’s eyes when I am so nice, pleasant, bland, and overall forgettable with most people I meet

@andreaberting This just in: you are never forgettable.

@SeanTwoNames I have no idea what this means but I like it

the girl from The Ring tracking me down after I got tired of running and instead diverted to the City Walk IMAX to watch DUNE: PART 2 for the eighth time

@pescami How can those Asian elephant mommies trust anything anymore? 🐘

How can I trust anything anymore?

Proud to be in good company with my goop-ilicious comedy at the pitch finals for #roadmapconference2025 with @merewalton’s desert island adventure, @dani_hanks body-positive G.Y.M. comedy, and @laurelgans’s dentist OCD comedy! Thanks to @joeytuccio, @mesayteoo + @roadmapwriters !

I just pitched a femmilicious comedy series and a heartbreaking drama feature on the same day at #roadmapconference2025 ! Thank you @roadmapwriters for gathering such a great group of artists together.

@andreaberting Show them your joy 🤩

Pretty cool writing-related meeting set for tomorrow, got any advice?