Award-winning filmmaker/screenwriter/author/poet. If left to own devices, I may be discovered to be irreversibly submerged in Dickens or watching Kurosawa.
“...it was moving, he could feel it. The shadows slithering up his arms and under his clothes. He felt the push and the pull of the breath of some long-dead monster, breathing up and down his body — the stale midnight draft entering and exiting...”
—Excerpt from The Town
I know they say you shouldn’t introduce too many characters into your story too soon.
But I’m only at 3000 words and already at 16745 characters.
Let me know if you get this.
#bookhumor
#lol
#writingcommunity
I don’t know who needs to see it but here are some pictures of Chris Pine walking out of an indie bookstore with a GIANT bag of books while also wearing a mask.
Its fingers wind shadows against the wall, strewn like long branches curling in a gale. I don’t know what it is, for I’ve never seen it. But I watch its threatening shadow dance with wild shapes, while its voice wafts around me in quiet whispers — an echo chamber in my head.
I listened to a country song while cruising down the highway today and found myself craving a cowboy hat and a bald eagle. I almost bought a truck halfway through the song.
It is stuck inside my head now.... why am I looking at apartments in Texas...?
#country
#music
Anyone else wish they could live in a black and white movie? Foreign gray bars with a soft cigarette haze, a piano man crooning “As Time Goes By”, as well-dressed lovers sway in each other’s arms... and some ache over distant memories of Paris....
#blackandwhite
#movies
#paris
Aliens: [fly suspiciously in the corner of a government radar]
Mankind: [screams]
Aliens: [laugh maniacally and land on earth]
Mankind: [panics and burrows underground]
Aliens: [get Covid]
#apocalypsestories
#aliens
#covidlife
Twitter told me I have to celebrate my one year anniversary of being on Twitter. So uh yay, I’ve been on Twitter for a year. I guess I’m proud of myself? I don’t know. This is my first Twitter birthday, I’m still sorting through all these unfamiliar, infant emotions.
#tweet
the boy stared into the fire, falling into the hypnotic sway, the glowing dance, until his eyes flickered with the same light, the same twists and folds of magic. the girl sat beside him. “Do you feel it too?”
#fire
#amwriting
#beautifulwords
#writingcommunity
#author
I say we celebrate graduations this 2020 year by doing one grand international ceremony live for everyone.
Emcee: “Aaron A. Aalagars.”
*quiet cheer from camera guy*
Emcee: “Aaron A. Aalagart. Aaron A. Aalagau....”
#2020graduation
#2020IsBadBut
#grad
#lol
#haha
#2020life
I sink beneath the silky tides of Sinatra, his voice quicksand—a moving image of the sky in ebb and flow, blue washing up and down the celestial shore. I wake up with earbuds dangling loosely from my ears....
If you are but a dream.
#sinatra
#frank
#oldies
#oldrecords
#music
Expectation:
Write a screenplay that will be bought by Netflix, directed by Spielberg, acted by Ryan Reynolds, and tops the streaming charts.
Reality:
Write a screenplay that will sit on my desk in a mess of papers for the rest of my lifetime...
#writingcommunity
#screenwriter
That moment you put off reading a school book because you want to focus on writing your essay and then realize a day before the essay’s due that you’re writing an essay on that very book...
#finals
#collegelife
#tired
#essays
Me: reads a book about loneliness
Me: finds it sad
Me: looks around my room
Me: doesn’t see any humans
Me: realizes I am alone because of the book
Me: becomes very conflicted
LATER
Me: reads another book about loneliness for answers
#amreading
#books
#facts
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” —Virginia Woolf
#quotes
#inspirational
#literature
It is just me, or do other people also attempt acrobatic feats, twisty impossibilities, and upside-down stretches when trying to reach for their phone charger while laying in bed??
#lifequestions
#quirks
#what
People: This TV show is so unrealistic. The main characters literally never get hurt at all.
TV show: *kills a main character*
People: WHY THE HECK WOULD YOU HURT A MAIN CHARACTER??!? You psychos!!
#Mandalorian
#spoilers
#lol
#series
Took a sip of some protein drink and felt like my whole world was about to explode into a confetti of gluten-free health dust. Can’t figure out if that’s a good thing or not. The taste in my mouth says no....
#health
#greendrinks
#lol
#writer
My night:
After binging three horror movies today, I’m asked to walk outside into the dark alone to retrieve a trash can from a spot up in our backyard.... I turn on my phone flashlight, shine it on the can.... to see a big, poisonous spider crawling across the handle....
All ads ever: Are you having marriage issues? Are you experiencing kidney failure? Don't you worry, Walmart's got you with all new contact free pick-up!
#ads
#lol
@Walmart
Harsh writing advice:
Stub your toe, describe the pain. Channel that into your characters. Before you ask.. yes, this is necessary.
#blindlyfollowingtrends
Doctor: *walks into room* Hello, Grant. My name is Dr. Salt. I will be your chief physician today. So, you’re here for your broken femur, correct?
Me: Where’s Dr. Pepper? *looks at the ground and stifles a laugh*
#humor
#conversations
#lol
@drpepper
#drpepper