Cory De Silva

Studied improv at UCB and Groundlings. Racked up over 3 million views on r/nosleep 😱

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

3 million views on my nosleep stories. 😱

[The Hollywood Reporter @THR]

'Backrooms' Sends Hollywood Running to Reddit for New Ideas https://t.co/eLMvyQCMpI

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

@factpostnews 🤡

[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

Jesmyn Ward: “Become the best writer you can because nobody owes you anything. You owe that to yourself.” #writing

[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

Scott Neustadter: "Make sure your first twenty pages kick serious ass. Hook that first reader, get them INTERESTED, then it’s off to the races.” #screenwriting

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

@Todd_Spence Very cool.

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

🎯

[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

David Foster Wallace: “If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.” #writing

[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

Tim Blake Nelson: "Every day I get up and put myself in a frame of mind for inspiration to come." #screenwriting

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

@CultureCrave 😱

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

Love how he honors the dialect of the time. So cool!

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Robert Eggers confirms that the dialogue in ‘WERWULF’ is all 1300s Middle English.

“We worked with 2 Oxford professors on the dialogue, which is in Middle English, & then worked with a dialect coach on a way to temper the pronunciation”

(Source: https://t.co/MATt6uyU0l)

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

@DiscussingFilm Hell yes.

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

@Tig_Bo Stallone gave us Rocky, First Blood, Demolition Man. All masterpieces that will never be forgotten.

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

@Breaking911 🤡

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

@creepydotorg 😱

[Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory]

Kurt Vonnegut: “The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow.” #writing

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

@CultureCrave 👏

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

@Polymarket 🤡

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

Yes, if you’re a millennial or younger, fund your own retirement plan.

[AJAC @AJA_Cortes]

I don't know anyone in my age cohort that earnestly believes that Social Security will still exist by the time we are retirement age

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

@GavinNewsom 🤡

[Casey de Fremery @CapitalF]

@TheEricGoldman They think that no movie commissioned in Hollywood ever fails to get made, that none of them fall apart in development. Wait till they find out about well paid working screenwriters who have never had anything made yet live in a bigger house than them

[Eric Goldman @TheEricGoldman]

Because she probably wrote a bunch of well received screenplays that just haven't been produced, which is how it goes for many writers once they're being hired by the studios. (I know offhand she wrote a totally different Supergirl script for Sasha Calle I presume people liked)

[Cory De Silva @RealPlagueMask]

Yes ✂️✂️✂️

[FinishLineScriptComp @FinishLineScrip]

One of the hardest things for writers is learning to cut scenes, characters, or dialogue they love because they don’t serve the story. The best scripts are lean and efficient—every page, every scene, and every line must earn its place.

If a scene doesn’t move the story forward or develop character, cut it. If you’re hesitant, try removing it and see if the story still works without it.