Screenwriter of what tickles my fancyโฆ and Iโm very ticklish. The Nicholl Fellowship: 2021 SF: SELDON SEEN, 2022 QF: THE LAST SIREN, 2023 Top 8% THE GIRL SCOUT
How would you berate/console the blithering idiot who chatted with their favorite North American actor for 20 minutes w/o recognizing them until moments before they had to leave - when saying something wouldโve just proven how dumb they were?
Anyway, this is Tatiana Maslany.
@nowthisnews
@AOC
@AOC
preaching to the unconvertable. The Bible is just a shield for the GOP to hide behind while theyโre counting the money they pray to.
As much as I love this screenplay, I didnโt think that it was in a genre the Nicholl was looking for, so this is a timely - much needed - surprise.
And, of course, Iโd like to thank The Academyโฆ
I guess we arenโt being told to wait.
THE LAST SIREN has made The Nicholl Fellowship quarterfinals!
Congratulations to all who entered and those who advanced. Just finishing the script and putting it out there is an achievement.
I guess I can announce that my screenplay, SELDON SEEN has been accepted to the ISA Development Slate.
Iโm incredibly grateful to the folks at
@NetworkISA
and especially Jordan (Twitter unknown) and
@Felicity555
#screenwriter
#screenwriting
@stayceespeaks
Iโve had a few of those, and when faced with pesky things like facts, they tend to start name-calling and denigrating liberals.
If you think about it, they use the same tactics as their cult leader.
They called my name, and I can finally announce: SELDON SEEN is a 2021 Nicholl Fellowship semifinalist.
Iโm incredibly grateful, and still somewhat in shock.
#Nicholl
#screenwriting
@warrenleightTV
As a native and current New Yorker, the love I have for this story knows no bounds. It reminds me of the kind of tales one would read in The Metropolitan Diary column of The New York Times.
Oprah said 50 is the new 30. I think she was right.
Not much has physically changed about me in the last 20 yrs, other than grayer hair.
(Emotionally, still in my teens.)
I ๐ธ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ take my
#screenwriting
career to the next level(s) this year.
โฆAnyway, today Iโm the new 40.
Writers looking for inspiration, remember that Alan Ball wrote American Beauty after seeing a plastic bag dance in the wind. Imagine what this could inspire.
#screenwriting
Okay, WGA (& supporters), letโs go NEW WEEK!
Show AMPTP that squeezing out deals with the DGA does not dampen our resolve!
BONUS: Get your steps in and free vitamin D! Sometimes thereโs donuts!
#WGAStrong
#WGAStrike
#IStandWithTheWGA
Yes. Films are set up as individual business entities that the studios โloanโ money to at exorbitant interest rates. The studios rake in the dough while the films have no chance at breaking even. Or paying residuals.
And, yes, it should be illegal.
#FilmFinanceReformNow
You just gotta love
@TonyDanza
- who was walking by our picket of The View and said โLet me get a sign!โ He closed it out with gusto, making sure he hit the doors at both ends.
(And just the nicest guy.)
#WGAstrong
#SAGAFTRAstrong
@trschmidt85
@amylmiller12
Now if only she would. DeVos may be the most despised woman by parents of school-aged children that this country has ever seen.
Donโt let me be the ONLY one representing
#WGA
at a SOLIDARITY picket for
#SAGAFTRA
! Come to Times Square! Let Paramount know thereโs still UNION STRENGTH!
In my hubris, I submitted The Last Siren to this festival, because I was proud of the research & vetting I did to make it authentic to a small fishing village in 1945 Wales.
It was selected among the finalists for Best Screenplay, to be announced 10/26. Iโm happy to get this far.
My first feature of 2022 completed.
Two women, one fresh from the penitentiary, the other fresh from penitence at a convent, go on the run in France when an American mob boss looks to settle an old score.
#screenwriting
#Screenwriter
@JeffLieber
Iโm always surprised/disgusted to see that those at the top are willing to pay more than whatโs being asked of them in order to keep money out of the hands of those at the bottom.
@TJBerry
@RachelSL
โI want my two dollars!โ
โBadges? We donโt need badges!โ
โI got vision. The rest of the world wears bifocals.โ
โYouโre Killinโ me, Smalls!โ
โZedโs dead, baby, Zedโs dead.โ
โNazis! I hate these guys!โ
โI could do this all day.โ
Okay, so hereโs the deal: Last year I rushed the ๐ง๐ช๐ณ๐ด๐ต draft of ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ข๐ด๐ต ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฏ (SWIDT?) into
@finaldraftinc
BB, and didnโt place. So I re-entered early this year and
@Coverfly
said the QFs would be Jan. 26โฆ but they were announced today.
And I made the cut.
I was going to take the day off, but Rapid Response sent the email, and for a last chance at shutting down American Horror Story, I had to answer the call.
#StandWithTheWGA
Thank you
@WeScreenplay
for this!
And congratulations to all who entered! For everyone of you that completed a screenplay, there are 20 who didnโt. So enjoy that accomplishment.
#screenwriting
#screenwriter
Just your weekly reminder that when the WGA Strike is over, youโll want
@TerryMatalas
helming the writers room so
@JeriLRyan
can helm the starship.
75K signatures? Make it so!
Let Terry Matalas, Make Star Trek Legacy! - Sign the Petition! via
@Change
Congratulations to the quarterfinalists of the 2021 TSL Free Screenplay Contest! ๐
There were almost 13,000 submissions this year ๐คฏ
Check out the list below and make sure to read the FAQ post about what comes next.
Today, I would like to call for transparency from all SCREENWRITING CONTESTS and SCRIPT-READING services regarding the use of AI to evaluate material.
No writer supplies their work with the intention of feeding a machine thatโs designed to replace humans.
โAI is a rapidly advancing technology posing numerous real-world consequences. There must be strong legal guardrails put in place to ensure that this tool is not abused by companies to the detriment of a writerโs work.โ - WGAE President
@LisaCullen
Seldon Seen ends a nice competition run as a Nicholl semifinalist, and Iโm okay with that.
(Even if the letter is oddly dated wrong, it seems Iโm in some pretty good company.)
My focus is now on my latest baby, The Last Siren. A screenplay that Iโm head over heels in love with.
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐๐๐ง๐๐ฃ lives to see another day.
Thanks to to
@TheScriptLab
for loving this screenplay almost as much as I do.
Congratulations to the other finalists, and all who entered. Just finishing the script is an accomplishment.
This is the first time Iโve entered 2 (very different) screenplays in the same competition. Thank you
@NetworkISA
for the consideration, and congratulations to my fellow QFs!
Iโll admit I held out an iota of hope after getting my best post-finalist scores yet for The Last Siren. Alas, I continue to ever be a bridesmaid, never a bride.
Butโฆ with two scripts in the top 1% on Coverfly, I have to ask: what does it take to be a
@Coverfly
endorsed writer?
Okayโฆ
Iโm grateful for this amazing screenwriting community, for the scripts Iโve written, & those Iโve read. For advancing to semifinalist in the Nicholl with my first entry in that fellowship, for the 16 years I worked on Times Square NYEโฆ & for 6 warm years since I stopped.