Katherine Arcus

Eurovision is unravelling tonight as country after country pulls out Following today's decision to keep Israel in Eurovision 2026, Spain, Slovenia, Ireland and the Netherlands have quit the contest. Four more are considering. Eurovision may never recover.

Super, comprehensive exposition of the Eurovision fiasco by @davekeating.substack.com

davekeating.substack.com/p/eurovision...

Even though it's designed for features, I found the information really useful as I was putting my pilot back together. A few of the items on the checklist work slightly differently in television and in film, but the actual checklist itself is relevant to both.

Definitely worth checking out!

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263 | Feature Film Story Engine Checklist: 8 Elements to Turn a Situation Into a Movie (REBROADCAST) — The Screenwriting Life STORY ENGINE. Two words we so often dread, but let's be honest: the engine of your story is what POWERS your movie. It's make, or break. And today, we break down eight elements to test whether or no...

The podcast is an episode of the Screenwriting Life called The Feature Film Story Engine Checklist (episode 263 rebroadcast Sept 18th).

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This book gives advice, then presents you with exercises that guide you along the way in baby steps. It's teaching you how to think. Also, the example script is a generic episode of Everybody Loves Raymond.

Everyone's process is different and YMMV, but this is helping me at the moment.

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I'm finding it helpful, because unlike many of the other books I've read, it doesn't give you advice and then present you with an example like Breaking Bad (or whatever), like here, recreate this, one of the best scripts ever written.

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The book is The TV Writer's Workbook: A Creative Approach to Television Scripts by Ellen Sandler.

It was published in 2007, but shockingly, the associated website is still up and running.

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Two more #TVwriting resources to add to the list. Both of these have been helping enormously as I work through notes and extensive rewrites on a pilot.

One book and one (yes another) podcast episode.

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Our logo of a silhouette of a phoenix rising above flames and a ringed planet. On the bird are terribly added clip-arts of a red Santa hat and a scarf. Snow is falling in the foreground. Effects added terribly mostly to annoy Tara who does an amazing job at graphics and design for us (sorry not sorry).

December is right around the corner, and with it, our somewhat-annual holiday party!

Come by during store hours on Saturday December 6th! We'll have tasty treats, discounts, and almost all our staff will be in! Come pick our brains for the perfect recommendations for holiday gifts or for yourself.

How is every single thing in that photo beige?

For all the American journalists pontificating on why Canadians won’t cross the border anymore…

5-minute break!

Ok, 25 minutes of focus on the clock - GO!

THAT SAID. I'm going to start another #WritingSprint at the top of the hour. Go put the coffee/kettle on, we're starting soon!

I got sidetracked again - this time raking leaves in a windstorm! (At least my procrastination is productive?)

In my defense, I got notes on a script last night that were brutal but fair, which are both the best kind and the worst kind. So it's taking a bit of an emotional run-up to dive in today.

Taking a quick lunch break. Anyone who wants to play this afternoon, let me know!

Heading in for another 25 min - GO!

5 min break. Making myself a fresh tea!

Ok, 25 minutes of focus on whatever your task - GO!

In a new procrastination low, I apparently just decided that cleaning the bathroom and *starting my taxes* was better than sitting down to write.

SO. I'm going to dive into some pomodoro-timed WRITING SPRINTS! Anyone who wants to play along, jump into the comments.

First one starts 11:15am EST!

Ongelooflijk.

It’s Dutch, but it is the best word.

I wish this were true! (The first day of Christmas music part, not the Santa thing.) I got Whammed in a grocery store two weeks ago. Out of the game and it wasn’t even mid-November!

We used to toboggan down the slope of a ravine. Multiple trees. Slope so steep we often couldn't get back up it with the toboggan. At least one tree fallen across our path that, with the snow, created a jump mid-slope. Looking back, I am ASTOUNDED no one died. 🤣 Had the BEST time, tho.

Mary Kills People - ER doc moonlights for MAiD on the QT

Saint-Pierre - did you know there's a chunk of France off the coast of NFLD? we're gonna go and solve crimes!

Wild Cards - another buddy cop show, except one of them's a con artist

Slings and Arrows - an artistic director in the midst of a mental health crisis takes over a rep theatre

X Company - Canadian spies in WW2 (SO GOOD)

Pure - drug-running Mennonites

Pretty Hard Cases - women-led buddy cop comedy

Cardinal - murder mystery (brutal but stunning)

The oak tree in my front yard waited until the morning of the last yard waste pickup (today) and then dropped every single one of its leaves at once. 🤣😭

YES!! x 1 million

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Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

Some of these movies are actual comedies. And some of them are comedies the way certain Shakespeare plays are comedies - like, well, there was a wedding at the end and no one died, I guess? So, sure, “comedy”, why not.

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