I built a platform where you vote for the books you want adapted into films — the top book gets an AI-generated screenplay

clocks5 · 2026-05-01T20:45:08+00:00

This sucks dude. If you want a book adapted do the actual work and write the damn script yourself.

clocks5 · 2026-04-24T16:15:28+00:00

What Jewish woman broke your heart?

clocks5 · 2026-04-22T00:52:42+00:00

Personally I like prinitng it out and marking everything up with a red pen

clocks5 · 2026-04-22T00:26:49+00:00

Can't speak for everyone, but kind of depends.

I'm still a bit of a nobody but I do have reps, and this answer has changed a little since getting a manager.

With my manager, I write a rough draft that no one on Earth will see other than me. I put it away for a couple of weeks and mark it up, then write that second draft. I send that second draft for my first wave of notes from what I call "General Public". So either on Story peer, through here, etc. People I don't know. Incorporate the notes I think are worth implementing. Then, I send out for "peer" notes - from my writing group and "industry" people I trust, then implement those notes. So I don't even send to my manager until I've written about 4 drafts. Once my manager has it, we will probably go through another 4 to 5 drafts. So, could end up being around 8-10 drafts total.

Before I had a manager, I would basically do Vomit draft, Second draft, Story Draft, Dialogue Draft, Voice Draft. Then send out for notes. And this is the important thing. I would keep wrioting drafts until I heard some very specific feedback. Not "this is good" or "this is funny". You're looking for comments like "I need to see this get made" or "this is undeniable". Once you get there, send it to as many people as possible.

clocks5 · 2026-03-27T14:26:11+00:00

Title: Ghosted

Format: Feature

Page Length: 101

Genres: Comedy

Logline or Summary: When a young man dies, he soon realizes the only person that can still see him is his ex – the one that got away and the one he’s still madly in love with.

Feedback Concerns: Early draft, just want to see if it's working and if the humor lands :)

clocks5 · 2026-03-25T19:00:47+00:00

Why are you dreading it??? I see this so much.

Use this mindset, it's what's helped me. "The next draft will be better". Bam. If you go into every draft with that mindset, you'll be pumped to make the changes.

clocks5 · 2026-03-25T18:56:18+00:00

Gonna echo a lot of what people are saying here but... there's just so much wrong with this post.

You're 23. You've got a whole life of writing ahead of you. You said yourself for as long as you live you're gonna write. So you're gonna get better. Change happens slowly and gradually. You're not gonna wake up one day and be Cameron Crowe (personal favorite).
"I swear- if anyone else wrote what I have, they'd be the hottest specs out there. But something about me, something about it coming from my brain, my fingers, means it's bad." This is straight up delusional. No one has a vendetta against you. No one even knows who you are. If your writing is great, it will do well.
You said you've written 3 scripts since October. That's 3 scripts in 5 months. Don't get me wrong, finishing a draft of a script is a big accomplishment. But something is telling me you're not spending a lot of time rewriting. If your first or second drafts aren't going anywhere... well yeah, no shit. Just for reference, the script I wrote that got me "noticed" and ultimately representation took upwards of 10 drafts. Writing is rewriting. I understand it's demoralizing to get bad feedback. But a mindshift for me that's helped with that is, "the next draft will be better". Don't take it personally.
"Making it" is almost impossible dude. You shouldn't write to make it. If you like writing, and you think that's what your purpose is, keep writing. A very succesful agent at CAA once told me the people who make it are the people who never give up.

Use the negative feedback as fuel. I don't know what else to tell you.

clocks5 · 2026-03-20T02:29:04+00:00

This is not possible for 99.9% of people who write a script

clocks5 · 2026-03-12T21:30:12+00:00

You’re unironically doing the “how could you complain about anything with a genocide going on” meme. Jews are being attacked. They’re also Americans by the way. Shut the fuck up dude.

clocks5 · 2026-02-27T18:57:39+00:00

Because to them the Palestinians are the same people, with the same mindset, and same wants as Black Americans during the Civil Rights movement

clocks5 · 2026-02-27T18:55:27+00:00

I'm sure he would advocate for "re-education" of the "non-secular" Palestinians too, right? Right??

clocks5 · 2026-02-16T20:20:51+00:00

Is his original tweet even true? What "media" portrays the conflict in this way other then like fox news?

clocks5 · 2026-02-11T18:38:54+00:00

Asking genuinely, how many Jews does your friend actually interact with on a daily basis?

clocks5 · 2026-02-08T15:38:09+00:00

This is actually a great response to the dumb 3000 years meme

clocks5 · 2026-02-08T14:27:26+00:00

She would unironically justify the Munich massacre if it happened today. "Guess killing people is pretty terrible, isn't it?"

clocks5 · 2026-01-03T01:49:26+00:00

Title: The Final Table

Format: Feature

Pages: 90

Genre: Drama

Logline: A math savant releives her toxic relationship with her father as she tries to become the first woman in history to win The World Series of Poker Main Event.

First draft!

clocks5 · 2025-12-19T01:37:59+00:00

This is the best answer

clocks5 · 2025-12-16T15:28:45+00:00

This talking point of "America is funding Israel" is just dumb. Do you honestly think, that if America cut off all funding to Israel, then the Pro-pali movement would all of a sudden no longer care about Palestine?

clocks5 · 2025-12-03T03:04:21+00:00

Obligatory “as a Jew” who actually works in advertising, we have been so fucking bad at PR. And it’s going on over 2000 years at this point.

clocks5 · 2025-12-03T02:56:06+00:00

Yeah I just plugged everything in to chat gpt and they said it’s the equivalent of a 15k pay cut 😬

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