Tom Schrack
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Screenwriter -- repped @citizenskull . Old skateboarder. Producer @aghaunting .
Long Island NY - Washington DC
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Be wary, folks. Starmaker's "terms and conditions" kept 100% of proceeds from MY sale. Don't let this tweet fool you -- it's not an altruistic one...
Congrats to former Starmaker Screenwriting Contest winner
@tschrack
, who just sold his contest-winning script to Paramount for half a million after an introduction to studio executives from Starmaker. We couldn't be happier for him. Starmaker makes dreams happen, so enter now!
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Been a dad for a month. Haven’t landed a “dad joke” yet. When do those come in?
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If your screenplay is over 99 pages, it probably won’t sell. But also, if your screenplay is less than 100 pages, it probably won’t sell.
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I can't thank
@roadmapwriters
enough for championing my work and connecting me with
@CitizenSkull
! I'm hyped for the journey to continue!!
312 Roadmap Writers signed! Congratulations Thomas Schrack signed with Citizen Skull through a Roadmap program!
#WritingCommunity
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Once I learned how to write movies, writing movies got a whole lot harder
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When I joined
#ScreenwritingTwitter
, one of the first people I met was
@gabebraxton
and now we're making a horror feature together.
#ScriptChat
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Unreal gift! I haven’t shared my script, PATERNITY LEAVE, too much, but my wife commissioned an artist to paint an epic scene from it!
#screenwriting
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A recent study has found that if you sit down to write, you’ll actually write more than if you didn’t.
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Got a screenpit DM request. Lilly0867776566 called me sexy and requested that I reach out if i was lonely. I sent them my script 🤞
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Great news! NATTY LIGHT is one step closer to the
@finaldraftinc
fellowship!!
@StoweStoryLabs
We are pleased to announce 2023 Fellowship Finalists to our narrative labs & writers retreats. Review the rosters here: . Congratulations to all finalists, and thank you to our fellowship partners. We wish you best of luck in the final round of reviews.
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NATTY LIGHT, my coming-of-age teen comedy which QF'd in PAGE and Next-100'd in Nicholl, now joins 4 of my other scripts in the
#AFF29
2nd round. I'm blown away!
Thanks
@austinfilmfest
! Congrats to all and see some of you live and in person, next month!
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My Prohibition comedy THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND takes me one step closer to a road trip up to Vermont for some sweet sweet maple syrup! "A drunken Princess Bride"
Stowe Story Labs is pleased to announce 2024 Fellowship Semi-Finalists to our Narrative Labs and Writers' Retreats. You can review the rosters here: . Congratulations to all semi-finalists, and a big thank you to our fellowship partners.
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When a trailer comes out for a movie you're basically writing.
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A director I met at LAST year's AFF was looking for some fairly specific scripts... I just sent him some from a couple of writers I met at THIS year's AFF. Feels good 😎
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First time I've been called honorable since the great '04 High School Mock Trial!
Stowe Story Labs is proud to announce the 2024 Fellowship Winners and Honorable Mentions for our Narrative Labs and Writers' Retreats. You can review the roster here: . Congratulations to all! Thank you to all who applied and to our fellowship partners.
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Just entered a
@ScriptPipeline
screenwriting competition with a script I haven't written yet... a nice little $20 wager with myself to get it done before the free resubmit deadline.
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They call me Tommy Two Times!
The 2024 Screenwriting Competition Quarterfinalists:
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Once, I got a dialogue note that a parent would NEVER call their kid an asshole. I just got a text from a neighbor calling her kid an asshole.
Take that, whoever gave me that note back in the day!
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Hey, it’s me! As you retweet me begging…
#AFF30
Big fan of Thomas Schrack, signed writer
#312
through Roadmap's programs and just THE SWEETEST HUMAN AND WRITER. Happy to knight him with his "signed writer" pin! If you don't know him, get to know him!
#RoadmapAFF30
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So I wrote a movie about a rum-runner that crashed into my hometown in 1927. It's told like a drunken Princess Bride and I have reason to believe it's funny!
THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND 🥃a Prohibition comedy
Congratulations to the 2024 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition Semifinalists! See the list:
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Do you have a logline for your script? A paragraph synopsis? A one-page synopsis? A two-page synopsis? A treatment? A pitch deck? An elevator pitch? A one minute pitch? A two minute pitch? A three minute pitch?
If you don’t have all that… well… you’re completely fine.
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If I'm reading this right, PATERNITY LEAVE, NEW BELGIUM, and FIDDLERS are all
#AFF29
2nd Rounders in the Drama Feature category! Hazzah!
@austinfilmfest
, see you in Oct!
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Each year on my birthday I physically, mentally, and emotionally test myself to do the amount of tricks for my age. This is 37 for 37! 🛹 🎂
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SKITCHING is a single-scene real-time escape from a city on a skateboard. Drama. Action. Comedy. So proud of this little script! 🛹
*ANNOUNCED*
Our 2023 Screenwriting Quarterfinalists...
/🧵
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Kid Cudi stopped by both Washington, DC, skate shops today to say hi, spread some love, and talk
#skateboarding
with the locals. Pro move right there! Looks like he has a show here tomorrow.
@KiDCuDi
🛹
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Typed FADE OUT on my first new script of 2024. Then I deleted it, because that’s not how we end scripts in this house. THE END.
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In his early teens, Steven Spielberg stayed up all night writing a screenplay for FIRELIGHT. He said that the feeling of writing it was as close to flying as he ever had. That's why we do this!
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Oh, that sweet Vermont maple syrup is not too far off now -- my script THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND knows I'm hungry for that sticky icky!🥞
Stowe Story Labs is thrilled to announce 2024 Fellowship Finalists and Stowe Launch Advanced Development Shortlist to our Narrative Labs and Writers' Retreats. You can review the rosters here: . Congratulations to all on this terrific achievement.
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Someone just asked me if I’m a movie producer and I said I was a writer and then I remembered I produced
@aghaunting
and told them about it and now we have a new fan. I guess I’m a movie producer 🤷♂️
#AFF30
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Someone just read my new horror/comedy and really liked it. Also, it was me. I was the one that read it.
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2022 writer wrap:
- finished a handful of features & a pilot
-
@roadmapwriters
Career Writer Program
- funded
@aghaunting
for 2023 production
- met a bunch of folks at
#AFF29
- scripts went places I dreamed of
- read 100+ of your scripts! Thanks for sharing with me!
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That’s a wrap on our little skatepark short film! ☀️ 🛹
A huge thank you to our cast and crew!
@gabebraxton
@tunasauceinacan
@Reel_Insight
@collinlieberg
@ChrisWrightDC
, Keith, and our actors!
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We're making a movie! Thanks to all of our supporters!!
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I want to write THE GOONIES meets THE SANDLOT.
I have the tone... now I just need:
- protagonist
- antagonism
- supporting characters
- central conflict
- comedic throughline
- theme
- catalyst
- turning points
- tropes to use/subvert
- setups and payoffs
- running gags
🧵 1/52
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You ever write a script so good that none of your readers can find anything wrong with it? Me neither.
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You ever cut out what feels like 10+ pages of your script but the page count remains the same?
#screenwriting
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I appreciate all of you and your well wishes, and would love to thank each and every one of you, but I’m gonna have my hands full! I’ll catch up with you soon enough! 🙏
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One of you lovely readers encouraged me to remove all instances of (CONT'D) from my script.
I thought that sounded hip, so I tried it.
The next one of you lovely readers encouraged me to add all the (CONT'D)s back...
You two should fight.
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Writing is hard. Also, it’s easy. Also, it’s really hard though.
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On this Star Wars day, remember what’s really important… my birthday!
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My prohibition comedy’s in the mix with
@PAGEawards
. An alcohol-infused THE PRINCESS BRIDE, if you will. Based on a real shipwreck. Congrats to all!
The list of 2023 PAGE Award Quarter-Finalists is now online:
CONGRATULATIONS to every one of these uber-talented writers!!
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Illegal booze? Funny. Shipwrecks? Funny. Quarterfinalist funny at least! My Prohibition comedy, Three Sheets to the Wind, advances!
Congratulations to the Quarterfinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft Comedy Competition!
View the list here:
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Three Sheets to the Wind is based on a real Prohibition-era shipwreck in the town where I grew up. The hull of the ship is still there today! So are the whispers of what really happened...
@PAGEawards
The list of 2024 PAGE Awards Quarter-Finalists is now online:
KUDOS to every writer who advanced!!!
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My prohibition comedy THREE SHEETS TO THE WIND sails into the semifinals! Inspired by a real shipwreck.🥃⛵️
Congratulations to the semifinalists of the 2023 ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition!
View the list:
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I keep working with this bonkers producer. He's always adding more stuff to my plate, shifting priorities around, proposing late-night meetings. He's got another full-time job, but always manages to find time to check in and make sure I'm writing. It's me. I'm the producer.
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Be sure to refresh those old scripts collecting e-dust. You never know who might wanna take a look!
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Remember one of the subplots from 24 was Jack Bauer’s daughter being stalked by a cougar in a national forest?
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BILLY BLUE BALLS
On the morning of his first open house, Billy Banks, an awkward junior real estate agent gets a crippling case of blue balls and needs to seal more than one type of deal to get his dream promotion.
NO HARD FEELINGS meets 40-YEAR-OLD VIRGIN.
#ScreenPit
#Fea
#Co
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Some noble soul on r/screenwriting paid $800 for a copy of the "too controversial to air" Seinfeld script for “The Bet,” a.k.a. “The Gun.” Anyway, it's out there now. Lmk if you want it...
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Spring has sprung 🌱 and NATTY LIGHT has sprang one step closer to the
@finaldraftinc
fellowship alongside some amazing scripts!
@StoweStoryLabs
Stowe Story Labs is pleased to announce 2023 Fellowship Semifinalists to our narrative labs and writers retreats. You can review the rosters here: . Congratulations to all semifinalists, and thank you to our fellowship partners.
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Talking story in NYC w
@billpoore8
@ManfredGrem
@NickGambino1
@astrov2
@NGDWrites
@itsjonrobertson
🍳 ☕️
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Opened some pretty cool doors this year. Behind them... more doors.
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Been writing outside of Final Draft for a minute now. I almost miss the rush of when you don’t know if it’ll save or shut down on you. ALMOST.
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Screenwriting Facebook:
Beginner: Hi, I have a question --
Without fail: IS IT A PAID OPPORTUNITY? WHAT EVEN ARE YOUR CREDITS? WHY DON'T YOU JUST PRODUCE IT YOURSELF? THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!
Beginner: Sorry. I'll just quit writing. Thanks.
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Rad! SKITCHING🛹 skitches down the street on the back of a truck and powerslides into the semifinals!
Thanks to
@ScriptPipeline
for selecting it. Congrats to all of you other SFers!
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You ever write a first draft that caught everyone's attention and sold for seven figures the very next day? Me neither.
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There's ways to network and there's ways not to. Don't be like
@JaceSerrano
(or do, it's flattering)
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I don’t push my scripts enough on here. Most of them are outdoor adventures. Sometimes my characters go inside. Lmk if you wanna read them.
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My ode to Long Island & teenage shenanigans, NATTY LIGHT, wades (water pun) on! Thanks,
@roadmapwriters
and congrats to all!!
Announcing the Top Fifty Feature scripts in our 2022 JumpStart Writing Competition! Congrats, writers!
#WritingCommunity
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I’m in a coffee shop writing a scene about a coffee shop while listening to coffee shop music, drinking coffee. ☕️
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That same train I took out into the woods a few weeks ago — well, I’m back on it heading home. And, we shot a movie.
@aghaunting
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This is my COCAINE BEAR
THE STINK
Abandoned by her parents for being a freeloader in a post-apocalyptic world, a helpless 20-something woman must learn how to adult while surviving a dangerous threat that kills anyone who uses their nose to smell.
#ScreenPit
#Fea
#SFi
#Co
#HoCo
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If you're torn on what script to write next, just write one that would make a lot of people a lot of money. Simple.💰
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Do you guys outline grocery lists or do you just wing it at the store?
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Just hit a 5 year anniversary for a bunch a’ stuff:
- left the cult of “big 4 accounting”
- stopped traveling the world nonstop
- stopped wearing suits
- grew a beard
- let the hair go
- started wearing hats again
- rediscovered skateboarding and getting creative 🤙
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Each script has a beginning, middle, and end. Each act has a beginning, middle, and end. Each sequence has a beginning, middle, and end. Each paragraph has a beginning, middle, and end. Each sentence, word, and letter has a beginning, middle, and end. Good luck.
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Should I do a thread on how I packaged and sold my first feature for seven figures? It would be exclusively lies and fabrications, but I can still do a thread if there's interest...
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What a day, huh? Saw some writer friends in NYC, saw a childhood best friend, caught a movie, and now I’m eating a hot dog and brown paper bagging a beer out of the city!
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Spike Jonze recommends at least eight drafts. Michael Arndt says to prepare for twenty drafts. Tom Schrack urges you to get an ergonomic computer chair.
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A year ago
@MichaelHubbard1
and I were dreaming about where we are now. A lot can change between fests
#AFF30
@roadmapwriters
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NATTY LIGHT advances as a semifinalist in the 2023 BlueCat Screenplay Competition. Hopefully, my 14-year-old protagonists are cracking a fresh 🍺in its honor.
@BlueCatScripts
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When I win the $1.35B Mega Millions tonight, my animated family adventure FIDDLERS will be first on the slate. Who wants next?
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Thoughts on submitting a skateboard coming-of-age drama for a request for "Sports Scripts"?
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