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Jack Cuthbert

2 months

Here are what some great writers have said about my notes and feedback sessions so far. #screenwriting #screenwritingtwitter

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

Last week I made the decision to quit my day job in TV (props). I mean I hadn’t worked hardly at all over the last year anyway so it hasn’t felt much different as yet. But I realised it’s not getting better and I cannot put my family or myself through the struggle anymore.1/?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

I think I might start a production company that concentrates on a wide variety of working class stories not just the ones written by people pretending to be working class.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

@BeardedGenius Game changer. Gonna show this to the lads down the woods.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

Ok I’m doing it again but this time I’m limiting it to TV pilot scripts. Send me your scripts. I’ll read them and give you my thoughts as someone with 9 years in TV. What have you got to send me? Hit me with your longlines below. #ScreenwritingTwitter #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

I have been a screenwriter for 12 years or so and today i was at a massive production companies office and I got given two options!… either leave the building or they would have me arrested. #ScreenwritingTwitter #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

6 months

Get asked a lot about the best way of making a career in TV my answer is very simple: COME FROM MONEY.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 months

@robmanuel I essentially did live in Travelodges and prem inns for about 7 years while working in Tv and not living in London. Not having a fridge becomes very shit very quickly ha!

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

Fucking sick of people telling “it’ll get going soon. Don’t worry” the industry is fucked!!! We are completely beholden to the US for everything and we just plod along like it’s all just fine. We need to change everything but we won’t because it’ll get busy again and so on.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 years

Ok… I am looking to read feature and TV pilot scripts from my fellow writers of Twitter. What have you got? #Screenwriters #screenwriting #screenplay #WritingCommunity

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 months

I was in the top 100% of scripts entered in to the BBC Open Call 2024. Pretty happy with that.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

I will carry on with my writing and my reading services in here but I will no longer fight against the odds to be working class and in TV. I’m surprised I’ve lasted this long. I’m skint I’m shattered and I’m done. The industry is a total mess 3/?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

And it shows 0 signs of changing any time soon. The truth is that it’s a luxury to work in TV and one that only those with family money or from middle/upper classes. Also as someone from the neurodivergent community I’ve also struggled with what has felt like 4/?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

27 days

@nocontextfm1 Surely all these right wingers should be attacking though not supporting?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

My one piece of advice is: When writing Tv pilots, save nothing for episode 2. Because 99.999999% of pilots written will never have an ep 2. You’ll never run out of ideas. Or you will but that’s a problem for later on. #ScreenwritingTwitter #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 years

Looking to read more feature and TV pilot scripts from writers based in the UK. #Screenwriters #screenwriting cheers!

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

Also if anyone needs a half way decent podcast editor I am available for work. Also script reading notes and other writing business I’m about cheers and thanks for the love and support everyone!

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

Zero support or understanding. The industry doesn’t care about us it cares about getting the show on the road. I’m done with battling the productions for a decent rate and not free prep and wrap hours. I’ve battled to not be bullied and not let others be mistreated. 5/?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

7 months

Going to read one script a week for free. So send me your log lines and I’ll pick the one that grabs me! If you need a fresh pair of eyes on your screenplay then get in touch! #screenwriting #screenwritingTwitter

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

As a “genre screenwriter” I have felt that being based in the Uk will always mean either pitching to the US or having to scale back most of my work to fit with the British drama style. However the last few days on here I’ve felt a little hope for us mad dreamers! #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 months

If you’re struggling to generate ideas for genres tv pilots here’s a tip I picked up along the way. Watch episodes of The X-Files and steal the ideas from them and make your own series. You are welcome.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 months

I have now written the first draft of a TV pilot in just under 2 weeks. This feels like the fastest one yet. It probably isn't perfect but it's 50 pages I didn't have on the 25th of June so I'll take it.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

There’s a lot of screenwriters out there. Wow

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

I have struggled for over a decade to scrape by and have sacrificed a lot to answer the question “what do you do?” With “oh I work in TV” not living anywhere near London and having two children and a wife with an equally freelance career, it’s time to say no more. 2/?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

9 months

Submitted a new script to the BBC open call this time. I'm taking a risk (ha like there's a chance they'll be interested anyway!) in submitting such a raw script but fuck it why not!? Been a few days since my last rejection so good to set another one rolling. #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 months

@nocontextfm1 Crespo really went all out to get that stadium named after him didn’t he!!!?!

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

You know that script you think is ready? Yeah it needs at least one more draft. Sorry. #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

@natsantonia I keep mine all stuffed neatly in my 35 GU glass pots.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 years

@ChrisMcomedy You know amazon prime has this feature kind of. If you pause it it brings up a list of the cast on screen right now.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

I started writing a #novel yesterday and I’m about 5 pages in so far. You fuckers didn’t tell me it was so much easier and more fun than #screenwriting !? You can just cheat and tell the audience what the character is thinking. None of this “show don’t tell” bullshit… Furious!

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

Had so many nice messages from people about how they can relate to what I said yesterday in my thread. I nearly deleted it about 45 times after posting it. But I’m glad it’s resonated with so many of you.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 years

Finished a draft on another pilot. I’m not tweeting this to show off more to tell myself that I’m doing what I should and want to be doing. 4 x 55 page pilots now in my portfolio. Going to outline the next one soon because I can’t not do it. #screenwriting #screenwriter

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

Guys, I started a script competition in my own house and I’m sooo excited to finally reveal that I have…. Made the QFs!!! 🎉🎉🎉🍭 #screenwriting #ScreenwritingTwitter

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 years

@MissAHaddow I’ll be quite happy to get back to my job as a lawyer that I have kept in my pocket for just this occasion.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 years

@GNev2 @tompeck I read that and because they’ve used tour picture and your names I come away from it thinking you fly rather than using the train. If that’s not the case it’s misleading

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

Anyone needing notes and feedback on their tv pilots? Send me your longlines and I’ll pick 2 to read over the Christmas break. #screenwriting #screenwriter

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

9 months

@sianharries_ Balance is a myth. Not achievable.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

You say one thing about the UK film industry and you find out there are thousands of others thinking the exact same thing. Wonder if maybe the audiences might enjoy a bit more British Genre in their cinemas?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

@WriterHBlack Hahah this is great. May I add E4 - it’s inexplicable teenage nudity.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 years

@Keir_Starmer Please stop wishing the Prime Minister well and start challenging him on his tactics in handling this pandemic. cheers

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 years

@paulgreenwood5 @AmmaAsante Think you are in the wrong room.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 years

@tylermccsays 22 year old child of a film producer or actor.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 months

Thanks for everyone taking part in #ScreenPit yesterday. Some very cool loglines and scripts out there. I've now stolen so many good ideas for scripts so I'm happy. HAHA SUCKERS!

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

@bronactitley “The seas were angry that night in November. At what? Who could say but they felt that anger, believe me. All 13 souls were lost aboard the vessel.” Might be a nice one to chuck in if you feel like it?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

I’m trying to be the @andycompton_ of screenwriting Twitter in the uk.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 years

@chelseaperetti Yeah hold old? Did he have pre existing condition? We need to know the answers to these questions otherwise it will panic everyone!

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 months

@Scotterybarn Yeah but TWIST Rishi IS the mole. The little shit has been planted by the syndicate years ago and Ethan is left with only one option.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

Me and my 5 year old have had a bit of a film making day. This was her idea I swear.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

Been watching #Shrinking and seeing the way everyone takes the piss out of Harrison fords character for wearing the fedora. Then it hit me that he played one of the most famous Fedora hat based characters of all time. Am I on the right track @VDOOZER ?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 years

@Isysuttie Nature is healing. Someone had to say it

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

10 months

@MichaelMatteoRo Can’t find a gif for it but this from Independence Day.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

7 months

Going to read one script a week for free. So send me your log lines and I’ll pick the one that grabs me! If you need a fresh pair of eyes on your screenplay then get in touch! #screenwriter #screenplay

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 months

@aliceetches Because it fucking took me a decade to get into this room with you to pitch it. That’s why fucking now pal!!!

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 years

@newportbeats @RMi14123362 @pressgazette Just having a Tory say it’s a shambles is enough right now. Take the win

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

Ok I’ve got an idea. Get a lot of people contact me for notes but for financial reasons they don’t end up hiring me to read their script. So for every 5 scripts I do a paid read on I’ll pick someone off a logline (reply below) to read and give notes to for free. #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

2 days in and I’ve already read a script and sent thoughts to the writer. I’m not doing a script a day like last January because that nearly killed me. Trying a script a week. Much more achievable. #screenwriting #ScreenwritingTwitter

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 years

@MissAHaddow This is one of the most casually toxic pieces of writing I’ve ever read. Makes me feel so grubby

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

@DannyManus Worked with her last year very much got the sense British accent was her main one. We’re just good at doing American accents here I think!

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

@XitAbyss we need the UK to invest in the UK.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

8 months

@Mollys_ADHD It’s not our job to say who we are. It’s our job to be who we are and for others to experience it. I struggle with this too as most of the time I’m masking and being someone that fits in or is funny or helpful when more honestly “I’m shy and bored”. But you can’t say that!

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 years

@maxrushden East Sheffield fans are gutted right now.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 years

@LeeCotton1 @PhilippeAuclair And that’s why football needs to change.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 months

🚨🚨Send me your scripts so I can give you great notes to help you make your #script better! I have limited space this week so get in touch either by DM or visit my website for details. #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 years

@prodnose @GaryLineker @England @azzurri Losing a final on penalties mate. Not like they got knocked out in the group stages is it!? We should be proud of them not slag them off.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 month

She’s correct as ever. As a country we are a glorified staffed studio space for the US. We take no profit, we build nothing and we hope and prey that someone else will invest the money. We leave ourselves completely helpless and dependant on things totally out of our control.

Helen Black

@WriterHBlack

1 month

In my humble opinion becoming a ‘hub’ for US production was never sustainable, put the industry at the mercy of things beyond our control and drove up costs so that U.K. productions became untenable What we do now is tricky

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 months

@Scotterybarn Ethan for Prime minister?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 months

🎬🚨I will read the first 10 pages of your script and give you notes and now I've made a cool new poster to advertise it! #screenwritingtwitter #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 years

@EniAlu Let’s stop the people dying first though ay’.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 months

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! Someone actually came with the thing we've all been assuming they think. "you should be grateful" nah fuck that. I don't mind saying that I want to make money from my writing. We kind of, sort of need money to exist.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 months

Sent something mediumly important out into the world today via email so of course I’ll be busy for the next 6-8 months refreshing my inbox. Cheers! #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

@BrianDuffield Neither of them has watched Solo.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

Because I have somehow managed to gain hundreds of new followers let me introduce myself once again. I read scripts, pay what you can, I edit podcasts a bit, I bitch and moan about the unfairness of the tv industry that I recently quit (my day job) that’s about it…

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

@fmbIog S Aguero to Gillingham in Fm17.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

7 months

@Paulina_Warda It’s all impossible. If you work there’s no time or energy for creating and if you don’t work you can create but not eat. This is why creative industries are filled with generational wealth.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

17 days

When a prod not only acknowledges receipt of your script, but tells you when (rough date) to nudge them if they haven't got back to you. 👏👏👏 #screenwriting #screenwriters

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 months

I recently got called “Rather Brilliant” by someone very well connected, who read a few of my scripts. Yes this has gone straight to my head. Of course it has.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

@sianharries_ Being serious though it is weird they have balance for lots of things that mean total shits get a right wing platform but when it’s the old kings n queens we are all “United in grief” I can assure you we are very much not.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

To be clear, this was an attempt at a misdirection joke. Thank you.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

You get sent a script to read. It’s a word docx file. What are your initial thoughts? #screenwriting #ScreenwritingTwitter

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

The seven rules of screenwriting: 1 - Different colour fonts is what every exec is looking for. If you find a new colour that’s extra points. 2 - Never take a note without a fight. They will respect you for it eventually. Put your fingers in your ears if you need to. 3-…

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

Really enjoying “Only Murders in the Building”. It’s fun it’s a bit dark. If you haven’t watched it yet get involved.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 months

🚨🥳🎖️To celebrate all of our combined "Failure" I am now offering this service to all who can prove they got rejected from the 2024 BBC Open call #screenwriting #bbcwriters -

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

Don't start a new pilot, rewrite the other 14 you have. Don't start a new pilot, rewrite the other 15 you have. Don't start a new pilot, rewrite the other 16 you have... #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 months

My Twitter friends and family. I've got a Pilot script I've done as much as I can with for now so, would anyone like to take a look at it or do a swap with me? Drop me a DM. Cheers

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

6 months

Mud Blood and Beer - TV Comedy/Drama After raiding and taking out a coven, a couple of Vampire hunters find a baby. Deciding to raise it themselves they must hide it from their former employers and learn that raising a Vampire is much harder than killing one. #ScreenPit

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

@curlycomedy @clhubes My wife had a baby 2 weeks before I started working on this show in series 7. I was present at 7 births that year. One real and 6 pretend.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 months

I'm having one of those "too many ideas not enough time" kind of days/lives. Anyone else not perfect?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 years

@CambridgeJames @david_conn @guardian_sport They should but they shouldn’t be allowed to lie to uefa. They said submitted accounts and information to UEFA that wasn’t true! That’s why they are being banned. If I lie about my taxes and im @found out, I’m deep in shit. And rightly so.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 months

Don't write another new TV Pilot. Don't write another new TV Pilot. Don't write another new TV Pilot. Don't write another new TV Pilot. Don't write another new TV Pilot. Don't write another new TV Pilot. Oh shit... #screenwriting

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 months

@Scotterybarn There’s no time to wait for the voice chip. We have to assume like all horrible billionaires Rishi wouldn’t bother talking to his minions. Classic Ethan using his enemy’s “strengths” as weaknesses. It’s the other Downing Street staff he needs to worry about.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

The Script I have just started outlining is my most personal to date. I also think it might be the best thing I will ever write by far. Until the next one of course. #screenwriting #screenwritingtwitter

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

4 years

@JackHoward For a second I though this was a real person.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

Thanks to everyone who’s sent me their #scripts this last year for notes! Let’s do it again. Send me your longlines and over the next month I’ll try and read as many as I can. #screenwriting #ScreenwritingTwitter

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

People, I’ve written another TV Pilot. I just can’t stop. Sent it out for notes too. #ScreenwritingTwitter

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

5 months

@MajorTomCom No office could hold me. ADHD won’t let me tolerate a “boring” job either. It’s a tricky one this. Not going to lie. But glad I’ve done it now and who knows what’s happening in the future.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

1 year

@nocontextfm1 This is too real. My Brighton team have been subjected to this far too often.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

3 months

@nocontextfm1 “The Philosopher’s Stonewall penalty.”

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

2 years

@andycompton_ I use a Logline beat sheet pyramid cube for inspiration and then I moodboard it.

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

6 months

20 pages into writing my current script, so of course a really funny exciting shiny funny exciting idea comes fully formed into my brain and demands exclusive access all my creative muscle. Isn’t it just so fun to be a writer!?

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Jack Cuthbert

@JackCuthbert

20 days

I'm at page 94 of the 6/7th draft of this Romcom script now. Happy to be nearly done with this draft as although it's only taken 4/5 days, it's been a big old reshaping of the story and taken a lot out of me. Good to know I still have about ten drafts left before it's good. x

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