Jess Larson-Hamadani

Me every day I love being mentally ill 🫶🏻

Things I’ve accomplished this year that I’m letting myself be proud of:
- Growing a baby for 30 wks (so far)
- Visiting 🇮🇪&🇬🇧
- Surviving a season script coordinating
- Reading 17 books (it’s something)
- Being a rock for my family
- Maintaining a marriage during one of the hardest years of my life

Caught an early screening & Q&A of “A Complete Unknown”
Laughed way more than I could have expected and was BLOWN AWAY by Timothée Chalamet’s live performances. He made me a Bob Dylan fan. A beautiful script and perfect performances.

I’ll be indulging in the new Lohan flick tonight and eating my weight in holiday Chex mix

✨TIS THA SEASON🎄

Wicked was really good except for the 1 year intermission I don't need that long to go to the bathroom

😭 this movie and her decision still haunt me after all these years!!! Time for a rewatch 👏🏻

My worth is not a product of my productivity.
…Or so I’m telling myself right now.

I used to value accomplishments so much that if I hadn’t done something massive with my day, I felt awful about myself…Pregnancy has forced a lot of things into perspective.

What classifies a wasted day?

Ooo. Give us the tea! I studied on exchange there and still feel like it’s my real alma mater lol

Bringing us the content we need this week 👏🏻

Oof! I’m a chronic in-head-arguer… confrontation/setting boundaries that could come off aggressive is so tough for me but SO needed

Snagged a couple books I’ve been wanting to read for years 🙏🏻 Trying to read more classics since being on a romance and new fiction kick for the last year lol

The used book store in the town I grew up in has two adorable cats and I just spent an hour looking through books and petting sweet kitties and I feel healed. Sometimes going home makes the soul soar. 🩵

Love this Anna! Thanks for sharing. Simple but so easy to forget.

I've been struggling to write lately due to publishing setbacks and lack of confidence. I've found a few things that help and thought I'd share. Please tell me what works for you.

- Setting word targets
- Getting outside and exercising
- Absorbing all sorts of art
- Remembering why I started.

But when the man sitting next to me logs onto his therapy appointment using full voice, I find myself putting my book down bc I’m getting the TEA along with my coffee

Allowing myself to read in a coffee shop with zero plans for the next few hours is beyond healing

The artwork is soooo gorgeous!! Congratulations!! Cannot imagine how wonderful this feels 💕

Don’t feel like working on that thing today? Do it out of spite.

When it comes to novels, somehow a little fantasy slips into everything I write. When I’m writing scripts, it’s always romance slipping in. But I guess that makes them all fantasies too 😂

Writers who are also parents‼️
How do you manage the already tough task of sitting down to write (and actually being productive) WITH a child to care for/interact with?

Trying to picture my life as a creative WITH a baby in a few months and I’m TRULY FRIGHTENED.

I feel attacked! Not sure what my main character will do in retaliation but I can see the scene perfectly…

Coming home for the holidays is like looking in a very dusty mirror. I suddenly see why I am the way I am, but I’m also sneezing profusely.

Oh yeah I’m pregnant. *woot but also ahhh* Also hi Bluesky. 15 years of the bird app but glad to be here. 🙏🏻

Any other screenwriters dabbling in fiction/novel writing after feeling super creatively bleh? Trying to pack any creative energy I have left into the last few months before I have this baby. 😅