Margaret Doyle
@Magsedoyle
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Writer telling stories in any medium that will have me. Screenwriter, producer, and content strategist. Defender of the em dash. ✍️🤘
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Joined November 2009
Nearly every living writer’s dilemma, mine included. 😩😬✍️
Cormac McCarthy: “I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.” #writing
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Sorry, AI, my writing process does not start with me giving a machine a prompt. It begins with me staring off into space and daydreaming, and that's the way it's going to stay.
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David Mamet: “People may or may not say what they mean, but they always say something designed to get what they want.” #writing
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We are bringing back literary twitter. Tell your friends
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Great tip for my fellow writers! 👇
Writing tip: If you get stuck on thinking of a name for your characters, watch the credits on a TV show or movie and get inspired by scrolling through those. It's a system I've used for decades and it works every time! Do you have a writer's tip to share? #WritingCommunity
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My dad in the cockpit of a Spitfire heading out to fight fascists. 👏❤️💪#RemembranceDay 🇨🇦#WW2 #Spitfire
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Louis L'Amour: "Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on." #writing
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I found this helpful, maybe you will too if you’re a screenwriter.
What people fail to understand is that the system is not broken. It is working exactly as intended: to keep YOU out. And the people who have already made it and are now on the inside have a massive advantage over everyone else outside looking in. The peak of the spec boom was
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What a masterful job Prime Minister. 🇨🇦
"We're going to get the right deal. The right deal for America, the right deal—obviously, from my perspective—for Canada," says PM Mark Carney when asked why Canada has not yet been able to arrive at a trade agreement with the Trump administration. #cdnpoli
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Dear writers: Write that story. Edit mercilessly. Send that email. Ignore the haters. Stay humble, but be confident. Get paid. Read a lot. Write despite your insecurities. Support others. Accept helpful criticism. Celebrate everything. Don't panic. Never quit. You got this.
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Note the scale of sleeve to hand. 👌Genius.
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Robert Hass: “It’s hell writing and it’s hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.” #writing
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Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
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“You know, once they’re declaring a renaissance, my God, that means that some dark age will be fast upon us.” —Tobias Wolff
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Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
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You don't need to be a better writer. You need to write worse, and more often.
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Kurt Brown: “If you don’t know what to write, ask your story, ‘What are you trying to tell me?’ Ask that and wait. There will be an answer.” #writing
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