Joe Favalaro

Kinda want to take some psychedelics and watch the State of the Union just to see how well my brain handles it.

Poster for a new horror spec.
Second new draft of the year.
I fuckin’ love writing.
Chop wood, carry water.

The US probably needed a win like that before they go to war again for another 20 years.

Kinda want to load one of screenplays into ChatGPT to see if I can get it to kill itself. If you’ve read my work, you know it’s a possibility.

75 pages into the new spec. Man, I fuckin love writing.

A question that’s been circulating around my skull a lot lately has been - “Is it ethical to be alive?” - a strange thing to have running around in one's brain.

Hahaha cheers my dude!

32 years old today.

With time, I bend like a brittle branch.

“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.“ — David Graeber

Hahaha, appreciate you my dude 🙏

First page of my take on a haunted house story where the real threat isn‘t the home but the realtor selling it.

Logline: “When their breakup forces them to sell their dream home, a dysfunctional young couple suspects their eccentric realtor is concealing a horrifying secret.” #scriptsky

Finished yet another rewatch of The Invisible Man. Holds up every damn time. Such a great movie.

I’d kill to write a script for and work with @conanthecontrarian.bsky.social someday.

Some days, you just want to give up and
let that boulder roll down the hill right over you.

And yet, here I am, pushing that mass up because
I cannot do anything but carry on.

I can’t wait to write tomorrow.

Can’t wait to see this one unleashed into the world. Such a great script, my dude.

When I wrote my first novel, it was dystopian fiction. It wasn’t written well — that of a young, inexperienced writer — but some of the shit I put in that book… I might need to rewrite it and republish it.

It is now abundantly clear that the United States of America no longer yearns to be a shining city upon a hill for the many but more so, an outhouse, gold-plated and haphazardly propped up, by a pile of bloated corpses, for the few.

And we’ve got a first draft.

First new spec in awhile,
first new spec of
the new year.

Feels good to finish something. #scriptsly

100 pages in.
On the home stretch
for the new horror spec.

I fuckin’ love writing.

80 pages into the new spec
I don’t know if this thing is any good
I don’t really care, sometimes you just have to write.

Variety should get Alex Garland and Ari Aster into a room for a special edition of Directors on Directors.

Who will we be
when the smoke
finally dissipates
Who will be we
when the first laugh
breaks through
the endless
wailing.

86 ‘26. Getting ahead of it now.

Notes From Underground, Dostoevsky
Fifteen, One-Act Plays, Sam Shepard
Blowfish, Kyung-Jo Ran
All About Saul Leiter

Concrete Island, J.G. Ballard
The Crisis of Narration, Byung-Chul Han
Filthy Animals, Brandon Taylor
Perfection, Vincenzo Latronico
Fear & Trembling, Soren Kierkegaard
The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
Zero Point, Slavoj Zizek
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Year end roundup. Some of my favourite books I read this year. Some revisits, some new discoveries:

2025: The Year We Learned
What It Feels Like to Live
Inside An Actively
Rotting Corpse.

20 pages into the new spec,
on track to finish this shit
by the end of the year.

I fuckin’ love writing.

‘Preciate you my dude! Can’t wait to put it out into the world, haha and see if it gets the same reaction 😂

Haha, helllllll yeah dude. Can’t wait to read.