Maggie Walters

she/her 🏳️‍🌈 | Writer, recent grad

[Adam Conover @adamconover]

The details of the new Writers Guild contract are out. We won:
• Success-based residuals
• Strong limitations on A.I.
• Minimum writers room staffing
• Guaranteed compensation and 13-week minimums for Comedy/Variety writers in streaming
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https://t.co/rI1pKWFh4u

[C. Robert Cargill @Massawyrm]

A reminder that the chief "unreasonable" things the WGA and SAG-AFTRA are both asking for are:

-Increased minimums for our lowest paid members

-Protection from replacement/duplication by AI

-Streaming residuals falling in line with television

That's what they want to deny us.

[Aiko @aikohwrites]

SAG-AFTRA hasn’t gone on strike in over 40 years. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA haven’t gone on strike together for over 60 — today is HISTORIC.

[James Rogers III @jamesearl23]

Disney+ removed both seasons of a show I’d staffed on from the platform, ensuring that I’ll never make another dollar in residuals from it, or be able to watch it again.

Mind you, the show gave them 11 Emmy Noms last year.

What’s “realistic” about that?

[Caroline Renard @carolinerenard_]

Context for the “spoiled actors” crowd.

[Writers Guild of America East @WGAEast]

Starting at midnight, @sagaftra, WGA East and @WGAWest will be on strike at the same time for the first time in 63 years. We're making history, while fighting for the future.

See you on the picket lines until fair contracts are reached. #WGAstrong #SAGAFTRAstrike #1u

[Sean Collins-Smith @SeanTwoNames]

Listen, I've received *pages* of notes on my pilots from people on Twitter, and those same unedited pilots got me into rooms. Always be open to critiques, but don't suppress that voice in your head that might read notes and think, "This is how *they* would write it. Not me."

[Maggie Walters @MaggsNotWriting]

THIS IS THE GREATEST NEWS.

[Rachel Paige @rachmeetsworld]

so sorry if you’re not in LA this doesn’t apply to you but Porto’s now has churro croissants and I’m telling everyone I know

[Ted Sperling @Tsperlz]

When young writers ask me for advice I always say “be nice to assistants and support staff”

“Oh, because they’ll become execs and agents in a few years,” they usually reply.

Then I look them in the eye and calmly say “No. Because they’re human beings.”

[Spyder Dobrofsky @spyderdobro]

I just can’t stand how much discouragement there is out there for writers & creatives in general. For whatever reason - negativity and naysayers have a louder voice than the positivity.

So YOU -reading this:

Your script is kickass. It will happen. Ignore doubters. Keep writing!

[Samantha Horley @SamanthaHorley]

So I promised some cold hard truths to writers about submitting scripts to execs. Buckle up, this is gonna be bumpy. #scriptchat

The first thing to say is that they assume it’s going to be shit. Sad isn’t it? The fact is that most scripts are. Even the packaged* ones.

[Jeff Howard @jeffreyhoward33]

In my 23rd year of screenwriting sales, from my experience what matters is:

Talent
Perseverance
Networking
Luck

They’re all just about evenly important. Why do some great writers fail? They focus on the first two. Why do some mediocre writers get ahead? They ace second two.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

A huge part of my message to writers and artists is DO NOT GIVE UP.

My first book was rejected by 14 publishers and when it was finally published I was paid a whopping $7,500.

You and you alone own 100% of your dream.

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't have it.

[Maggie Walters @MaggsNotWriting]

@sasha_gonzaga

[Layne Morgan @laynemorgan]

I can not begin to say how much we shoot ourselves in the foot with takes like this.

It is UNBELIEVABLY DIFFICULT in this industry to get LGBT content made. Especially about wlw.

Yeah, most is low budget/could be better. But refusing to turn up for it only hurts US.

[Maggie Walters @MaggsNotWriting]

@mandamichel You can do it!

[Spyder Dobrofsky @spyderdobro]

A STORY:
For any writer out there who’s giving up hope, thinking about quitting. 11 months ago, I was delivering food for Uber everyday to make my rent, with a quiver of scripts nobody would read. I had a movie produced 6 years prior. The money had run out, so had my confidence.

[Ashleyn Lagerberg @corybantic_lad]

Due to the existence of an outline that I really need to finish, I have decided to teach myself the cello.

#screenwriting

[Gina Ippolito @GinaIppy]

Here's a thread about "Becoming a Professional TV Writer" using only things that have to do with episodes of Batman the Animated Series. It's for anyone who ever hopes of being a TV writer, or even, Perchance, To Dream of it. Get ready! They're all gonna be that ridiculous! (1/8)