#localscriptman

What's even sadder though is seeing a creator you had a lot of respect for... someone who even inspired you to make some of your own stuff because he actually provided helpful, constructive advice... suddenly spiral downward in what could be some kind of manic episode, or because he just got red-pilled by AI stuff. Maybe it's a combination of the two. I have no idea, I don't know the guy, but it's sad either way.

The thing that makes it frustrating in regards to general media discourse, however, is that while his dedicated audience is noticing something's up and asking if he's doing ok, newcomers already on the blind "I hate all modern western cinema because blah blah blah" are finding the new stuff and getting that sweet old confirmation bias. So now the discourse circles back to "ya'll just don't get it, he's speaking the truth and you're just butthurt about it."

new banger just dropped from my favorite writing advice channel

This one’s especially helpful for anyone wanting to get into the film industry, but i think the advice can be adapted to other creative industries too.

I don't log into Clarkesworld for the same reason I log into Ao3.

My roommate doesn't turn the T.V. on to Baywatch Re-runs to run as background noise for the same reason he turns on the T.V. to watch The Boys.

A Producer doesn't commission a Shop to build a set for a stage production of Fiddler on the roof for the same reason a Seven year old stacks up cardboard boxes, points at them and calls them zombie alligators and then smashes them.

Like for all his practical knowledge, it's like this huge glaring hole in his understanding that perhaps some fictions exist to be un-optimized by the art of conventional storytelling. Some concepts only exist in drabbles, shlock, and wayward wandering paragraphs. That's it. Doodles in the margins. Playing dolls. Those are complete experiences.

That doesn't make them fragments of some yet-unrealized whole that some emotionally compromised neophyte is too incompetent to realize into its TRUE and CORRECT form of a completely original fiction.

Like imagine watching a tutorial on how to Draw an Arm in Photoshop, and the tutorial is incredibly practical and effective. Only for partway through, the artist suddenly takes a moment to, in apparent deep frustration, describe modernist art sculptures/installations as what happens when you sit down, take out your pencils to draw, and Fail to make pencil markings effectively.

Throughout all of the writing advice and "tough love" videos. I feel like his is the absolute best approach ive seen thus far and the most unique that challenged my view in a way I really needed. I wholeheartedly reccomend a lot of his work! He's straight forward, honest, and while seemingly harsh in a few parts its all for those who are interested in creating and a push in the right direction.

Here's one video to start ya out if yer' interested!