Share this page!

Jessica Ellis Profile picture
Twitter logo
10 Feb, 6 tweets, 1 min read
After a year of not writing much, wrote a feature in 3 weeks, and let me tell you how bad it is!
First of all, it’s stupid short! Like “upsettingly long pilot” short! Yet also paced wrong and meandery!
Everyone says what they’re feeling aloud at all times! Some side character have been embedded directly from a discount character store called PEEPLES R US!
The sea monster is problematic!
The ending is a sap fest! If you cut open the third act, Nicholas Sparks oozes out! It’s always sunset for some fucking reason! None of my secondary characters have arcs! I use the word “surface” 780,000 times!
But it’s done.
So.

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Jessica Ellis

Jessica Ellis Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @baddestmamajama

Jessica Ellis Profile picture
10 Feb
The sad thing about Jurassic Park is that the people in the movie didn’t get to hear the music playing in all the dinosaur scenes
Alan Grant was just standing in a field with his mouth open in total silence
If you met Alan Grant and were like “dah da DUM dah Dum dah da DUM da Dum” he’d have no idea what you were doing and it would be so sad
Read 4 tweets
Jessica Ellis Profile picture
9 Feb
Ah, now we have angry 1950s dad lawyer
He’s gone to the Kavanaugh School of Belligerent Insecurity
Very strong I SAID THE SOCKET WRENCH NOT THE BOX WRENCH I EXPECT A SEVEN YEAR OLD TO KNOW BETTER energy
Read 4 tweets
Jessica Ellis Profile picture
8 Feb
My unpopular Disney California Adventure opinion is that I really miss the big train car with all the shops and the 1940s soundtrack in the original entry area and the caterpillar ride in a bug’s land.
The avengers area just looks like Vegas and I will never forgive them for changing Tower of Terror
The problem with that place was never the CA theme, it was that they half-assed and cheaped out on the theme! They could have doubled down on the CA stuff to make it cohesive but instead they took out 3/4ths of the California references and now it’s just odd.
Read 4 tweets
Jessica Ellis Profile picture
8 Feb
Was it just my high school where you could buy carnations on Valentine’s Day and have them delivered to whoever during class and was this a plot by the principal to ensure 2/3rds of us felt fucking miserably unloved all day?
I then transferred to a school where if you were in fancy choir (I was) you spent the whole week being pimped out to the local community for $200 a gig as a singing telegram, of which you did not get any. No one who received us was ever happy.
One time we were sent to a woman who broke down sobbing, and when we reported this back to our choir leader he looked into it and found out she was a stalking victim and we were sent by her stalker! Yes! Gotta get that $200!
Read 5 tweets
Jessica Ellis Profile picture
29 Jan
HARSH WRITING ADVICE:
Thinking of your friends as competition isn’t going to make you a better writer, because no matter what imaginary horse race you invent, you can only write what you write. So write it.
When I finished AFI, I was in a writers group with 6-7 guys. We stayed together almost a decade. They’re all staffed or selling features now. I know them intimately, know their work by heart. They’re good writers but none of us are honestly “better” or “worse.”
We had strengths and weaknesses as writers. The ones who were able to do assistant jobs got staffed first, and I think they’d agree they weren’t consistently the strongest in the group. The best scripts that we workshopped to death didn’t sell. It just doesn’t work like that.
Read 6 tweets
Jessica Ellis Profile picture
28 Jan
Very strong 11 months into pandemic vibe
There’s so much going on here. First of all, getting your heart broken and using your cat’s to live is...a wacky Freaky Friday setup.
Many of us love and bond with our animals and no shame on that but if your cat is your sanity you probably should have a therapist that isn’t also the cat.
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @baddestmamajama has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @baddestmamajama!

Read all threads by @baddestmamajama