Screenwriter's Notebook
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Greenlight drama: how a rising page count per day quietly changes your film
Francis Ford Coppola.
When each day is one step closer to your greenlight deadline and the budget is still packed with moving parts, like cats wanting out of the bag, you got yourself a pretty volatile mix of excitement and dread.
Everybo...
Series thinking: the art of repetition
Succession: S1, E6 (2018-2023, series creator: Jesse Armstrong)
Think of it as an awesome baseline - like Playboi Carti’s Olympian, it sticks from beat one. As it’s pulled - 1:02 - you feel the loss, and when it returns - 1:15 - you’re add...
Collected notes #7
Art by Jens Östberg
Someone, somewhere: it’s time to pile on the wars. There’s not enough shit going on. We need some new crap to complement the old crap.
Every war is a disaster, but I find Iran to be especially tragic - more on that at...
Three reads for February 2026
Left: uncredited / Middle: Teyana Taylor in One Battle After Another (dir: Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025) / Right: Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men (dir: Joel and Ethan Coen, 2008)
We’re already in March, I know. But this was put toget...
Pointless journal #1 - February 22, 2026
Art by Jens Östberg
For a Substack to work, it needs to be precise. It needs to be niche.
As channels multiply exponentially, mainstream is fading out, slowly. When every category has thousands of sub-categories, broad means death. No one...
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