Matt Wiggins

I write. I’m a guy. I sometimes make stuff. My opinions are my own. 📇🖋️ linked below is a short film I made:

[Sabin Howard @SabinHoward]

@BarrettBogue @GWOTMF And there’s not a single human figure in it. You’re missing it -General public is not that abstract or conceptual. They want to see what it looks like. What human beings look like that were engaged in this.

[Matt Wiggins @mattwriteguy]

@PaqWilly @ConradsonJordan The plinth should exalt the figure?

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@PaqWilly @ConradsonJordan Genuine question: why do you say the plinths should be larger?

[Matt Wiggins @mattwriteguy]

I am seated.

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@alexthechick This is similar to the mini 100 grand limiting principle.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

I don't know who needs to hear this, but it might be everyone.

Sam Hyde is wrong.

He's worse than wrong. Fractally wrong. Wronger than wrong.

The kind of wrong you get when you understand who the enemy is, and are trying to fight against him, but you're really still fighting for him, because you have foolishly conceded his initial premise.

Sam Hyde doesn't know what happiness is. That's why he tells you not to have any. Because he doesn't know what it is and what it's for.

Know the difference between happiness and pleasure.

Happiness isn't sitting in a dark room jerking off to pictures while sucking on a lollipop.

Happiness is what you get when you connect to other people.

Happiness is what you get when you accomplish something you're proud of.

Carry that heavy burden across a finish line. Make something useful out of wood or metal. Fix that leaking window. Debug your code. Write something true, or beautiful, or both. Teach someone. Cook a delicious meal that doesn't come out of a box. Grow your small business. Raise your son to be a better man than you.

Do something others admire.

Do something that makes you proud.

Happiness isn't taking, or slacking off. Nothing you can buy can bring you happiness unless you add your own effort to it.

Happiness comes from making, and improving, and giving.

Happiness doesn't shun burdens. Happiness picks them up.

You are not made to suffer or to hate life. You are made to thrive, and to desire what makes you thrive. How could your ancestors have made it this far in any other way?

Yes, there are a lot of burdens you have to carry, especially right now. But don't carry them with worry and fear and suffering.

Carry them with pride.

Set them down across the finish line with joy.

And pick up the next one with hope.

Find someone to carry it with you.

When you know the difference between happiness and pleasure, your own mind, your own body, will tell you exactly what you need to do.

[Matt Wiggins @mattwriteguy]

This is a fun one.

[Tom Schrack @tschrack]

S.K.A.T.E. gets a rad shout in the @JMUAlumni magazine!

Check out the short film here: https://t.co/8wxIJQ9Q7V

@JMU Go, Dukes!

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@kimhornsby

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#howindiefilmsarefunded

[Luke Barnett @LukeBarnett]

Trying to explain to my wife that Francis Ford Coppola sold his winery to make his $120M epic Megalopolis so we should sell our house so I can make a generic horror movie that seven people will watch on Tubi.

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For real!

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@DrDeath1776 I recall reading that somewhere…

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Writers! Let’s get some pages!!!

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

Nulla dies sine linea — “No day without a line.”

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@DrDeath1776

[Matt Wiggins @mattwriteguy]

@DrDeath1776 Good for winning at splattergories and getting hurricane kicked by JCVD.

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@DrDeath1776

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Gotta bring it back

[Jayson Kennedy @ghoulbasement]

Never see actors taking squibs like this anymore.

[Matt Wiggins @mattwriteguy]

Very high steaks

[Tom Vaughan @storyandplot]

You need high stakes in your story, but stakes are relative.

Sometimes a character just needs to care more.

A good test is that your story should explore one of the most important moments of your character's life.

If it doesn't, maybe the stakes do need to be higher.

[Matt Wiggins @mattwriteguy]

@MuseZack Jojo approves.