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Elle Bolan Heart emoji : ) Thank you!!!

Ahoy, Juliana Philippi! Congratulations on being a Spotlight Member, finishing your goal way sooner than expected, and submitting A Texas Carol to its first OWA! I like title and twist on A Christmas Carol!

Maurice Vaughan Thank you Maurice!

You're welcome, Juliana Philippi. Hope your script moves forward in the OWA! Have a great weekend!

That’s awesome, congratulations to you,

and good luck with your pitch sessions.

I think the newest season suffered for a lot of reasons. Particularly I felt the actor chemistry felt lacking. Which is understandable considering the transition the show made.

I think the biggest problem is the writing. I'm wondering if it was written during the writer's guild strike by a scab or it's AI. It's truly dreadful, like I didn't even want to finish watching it. The replacement of Geralt was fine and the addition of Lawrence Fishburn was a nice surprise. Everyone that signed off on the scripts should be banned from tv production forever...

Hi! I can't say anything about the script. I haven't watched the third season of the series yet. I'll just note that TV series are created for the sake of making money, not for the sake of art.

i just couldn't go past the fact that Henry cavil is not playing the lead. so didn't watch it

Nice, Justin Groats. It's always a great feeling. Congrats and best going forward!

Yay Justin Groats !

Congratulations Justin Groats! Winning or placing in any competition is a great achievement and worth celebrating!

DAMN RIGHT it means a lot, Justin! Great job...and here's to more and more success!

Congratulations! That’s still a major achievement!

Thanks for sharing the article, Leonardo Ramirez 2. I think getting everyone to agree to work together could be a big hurdle. I think it depends on who you pick for the team.

Agreed Maurice Vaughan. That's not a knock. It's simply that creatives have their own ideas of what they want to accomplish or achieve.

While I hate the business-speak with which that article was written, it does break down animation components in interesting ways.

One thing I didn’t see was an acknowledgment of the free labor a new media team must do to get up and running. If they’re getting funding from Patreon, fan support, and brand integration, they won’t have any of that until they build a fan base. Which also means a much smaller team at first.

Congratulations, Semifinalists!

Great news to wake up to.

My feature film screenplay, MORGAN’S WAKE, is a semifinalist in the Action/Thriller Competition.

Congratulations to all the other semi finalists!

Logline: A retiring hitman is tasked with breaking in his young replacement, only to find that the target of this final job is more than they seem, leading to a violent double cross in which the hitman himself becomes the target.

You could have blown me down with a feather when I got the news!

Vicarage Road - "He swapped the SAS for Sunday Service - now his redemption is ravaged by Revelation"

A former SAS soldier turned priest is dragged back into the world he escaped when a high-tech identity breach exposes far darker forces at play. Vicarage Road blends smart action, modern geopolitics, and deeply human stakes as an unlikely team is pulled into a fight that hits closer to home than any of them expect.

congratulations to all of them.

You're welcome, Nikita Simpson.

Whenever I write poems, lyrics and plays, I save some in email. Most I save to the cloud, my quantum poetry is saved on both allpoetry and youtube. I save all my plays on allpoetry as well. That way, each time one of my computers in the past has gone kaput on me, I have a way of accessing all my work.

I had that happen right as I finished a script for a fellowship submission deadline! I had to stay up and rewrite it before 11 Am the next day. Glad you had a backup!!

I have am the tiniest little usb drive you can find - it just lives in my laptop and when I take it places in my pack I just make sure it’s facing up so it won’t bend the port. it’s only twice the size of my mouse receiver. just get a good enough brand. lol.

So true! I have personally lost full scripts after dropping a glass of water on my laptop. It's excruciating. The worst was a paid assignment where the only copy I had saved was a physical one, so I had to painstakingly re-type the whole thing out word after word. I nearly died that day and swore to use cloud drives from then on. iCloud, Dropbox, and Google drive are great for backing everything up and avoiding the brutality of lost creativity.

"Somebody's got to lead, might as well be me"

Challenge accepted. I’ll respond with the mindset of one of my sci-fi worlds.

“Innocent? You misunderstand, hero. They are offerings. The god I have awakened demands a worthy sacrifice for immortality — and I intend to live forever.”

I turn to you, offering a knowing smirk.

“I see you are not only self-righteous, but foolish and blind as well,” I state, pointing my finger at you in an authoritative manner. “Those ‘innocents’ you are so worked up over are an advance scouting party from an alternate dimension. They are — my mistake, were — here to provide a point of attack on our world. By neutralizing them, I did what you were never able to do.”

I fold my arms smugly, smirking at you. “I just saved the world. And if you stop me, you will be the villain.”

I offer you my hands, challenging you to put me into custody. “Go ahead, ‘hero’…do what’s right.”

I got a new one from another sci-fi world.

I didn’t respond — I just left with a monologue:

“I survived them. You’re the real villain.”

Thank you very much for asking — you’re actually guiding me toward new twists in my story.

You pass the buck, was your own pious vengeful justice, that turned a society into marked witnesses.

Hey, Sebastian Tudores! Knowing how to edit could help screenwriters with pacing.

agree 100% Maurice Vaughan ! thx

You're welcome, Sebastian Tudores. I can't make the webinar today (wish I could!), but I plan on watching it later.

I learned screenwriting by directing and editing the scripts I wrote myself. So learning editing is a good idea. But there are cheaper programs which are easier to learn and almost as powerful. I have used Adobe Premiere Elements a lot. But I did use Premiere Pro from 2003 to 2005, when I learnded filmmaking at a public access television station.

couldn't agree more Göran Johansson - there's so much to discover about where we start if we're more aware of where it's gonna finish.

Hey , Phoenix Black . Great job. Sorting out what will work for you will provide more clarity and possibility. Good luck !!!!!!

I'm incredibly jealous of how organized this is. I mean that to be complimentary.

I'm about to start this kind of research and would love to know how you use chat gpt to help with your research, what prompts you use etc. I mostly use it like an organization tool because that's not my strong suit.

I wish you good luck. Last year I went through various lists on the internet, lists with production companies. Most refuse to accept scripts from us who have no agent. Or the companies have no email address on their web site. But I found about 100 to write to.

Goran, I'm in exactly the same spot. Can't find contacts to email them. The vast majority won't read queries if not from a manager. The few I do find (IMDb Pro used to be better with contact) I get no reply. But still, we trudge on!

Nice that you liked what I wrote, The first list I used was wikipedia's list with production companies in USA. In many cases Wikipedia included links to the individual companies. In other cases wikipedia doesn't include any link, so I googled, and found the same company on some other list. In this way I found more lists to go through. In this way I went through a few thousand companies, to find 100 I could actually write to,