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I lost track of them; I need to listen some more.

Thank you so much!

Wow! Thank you so much! Always appreciate the support. (Sorry for the slow response I don't check Bluesky too often)

When I think of how besides your podcast, I’d had Kevin Smith’s forum, Rian Johnson’s, Ted Elliott’s and Terry Rossio’s, John August’s blog… yeah those gates were kept, kept *open*

There was one time somebody who I used to follow said they stopped following you because your writing advice was too positive. Jokes on them, they were fake. Your writing advice is not.

Yeah, I miss Write Along

What is there left to gatekeep? Now that the machines have stolen the fire magic of EM DASHES, it's all just spelling and tense. Where's the fun in that?

I don't know why writers write but I know for a fact that there is a massive bottleneck when it comes to distribution of books to their rightful audiences and that bottleneck is ironically financial. Illiteracy is an issue of access to content that speaks to the appropriate audience member.

I forgot who described it this way (I’m sadly going to butcher), but I once came across a writer saying the most depressing part of getting asked “how do you become a writer” was seeing the hope the asker might finally get the Big Secret and watching them shut down after hearing “you have to write.”

Having conversations with screenwriters on Twitter back in the day was some of the happiest things I remember about that time.

I think I mentioned before that before Scott Derrickson left I got to tell him how much I loved the ending to the first Doctor Strange film! So I was happy about that, but yeah it's a shame that everyone would rather not have people with 0 credits tell them how Hollywood works. 😂

so @straczynski.bsky.social said "just write the damn thing", and I'm totally behind that

I'm thrilled I miss so much of the discourse

I have purchased many books on writing over the years. It’s a good practice, even for pros. But I’ve also learned a lot from people who just give their information away. My advice to all writers who’ve “made it:” put it in a book and sell it. Happy to pay for knowledge and wisdom.

I believe that both sidser thing I mentioned above is growing because of the SM problem you pointed out.

At the same time I just had to wonder aloud what the proper conventions were for comic writing and had pro writers in my DMs sharing a treasure trove of info. The dream is alive if you’re willing to dream it.

Here's some writer's advice. Write. Read. And then write and read some more. And there's a billion books out there. Get one and read it. Then get another and read that. Take a course. But writing is where you'll find the greatest strides. As long as you want to learn, you'll get better.

Ahem… writingandwhatnot.com I’m still trying…

Would be cool if you did another podcast like Write Along.