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Eric Lotter

@eric-writes.bsky.social
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Writer of thrillers that twist the mind and break the rules. Obsessed with identity, control, and what we leave behind. Psychological. Philosophical. Always cinematic. /www.lotterverse.com

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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thanks.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
#scriptsky #scriptchat So as a wrapped a draft of my latest feature. It is a part 3 of a trilogy I have created a new problem for myself. I have to pitch 3 features…
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
These guys run monthly contests with 4/6 pages of feedback. I run all my scripts through them for the read. The accolades are a bonus.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just a few more wins. #scriptchat #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Some wins during September! #scriptchat #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have completed the final script of my “Shadows” trilogy. A new feature called “Shadows of the First Dream”. Here is the #firstpagefriday for you all. #scriptsky
FADE IN:
EXT. ASHFIELD BORDER VALLEY - MORNING
Morning mist clings to the low wild grass. Along the ridge, faded heraldic banners from Dartmouth, Gagnon, and the Council flap against spiked timber poles driven deep into damp earth.
Mounted Dartmouth pickets patrol the perimeter, their leather brigandines wet with fog.
At the center of the field sits a broad open pavilion made of treated canvas and bleached timber.
EXT. ASHFIELD BORDER VALLEY - REFUGEE ENCAMPMENT - MORNING
Heavy gray mist crawls across a ditch choked with broken handcarts.
Dozens of DARTMOUTH REFUGEES huddle under greasy canvas tarps. Children cough into damp wool scarves.
A FARMER empties a water skin over a wooden tub. The stream twists mid-fall, defies gravity, and beads upward into the fog.
Beside him, an OLD WOMAN sifts a spade of dirt through her fingers. The soil crumbles into dry, weightless lead sand, drifting off in the cold wind.
Pickets of Dartmouth cavalry patrol the perimeter on mud-caked geldings, keeping the displaced families pinned between the tree line and the marsh.
INT. ASHFIELD BORDER PAVILION - MORNING
JADE (18) sits upright in a carved high-backed chair. She
wears a
formal
coat of dark gray wool clasped with silver at
the throat. Her violet eyes, clear and sharp, study a massive boundary ledger laid across the central table.
PEMEL BERO (20s) stands two paces behind her right shoulder.
His coat is tailored and clean. His mirrored glasses gleam beneath the swinging oil lanterns, reflecting the room.
Across the table sit THREE COUNCIL DELEGATES in layered blue velvet. Flanking them stands MARSHAL TRENT (50s), an austere Dartmouth commander with an iron gorget locked tight around his throat.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congrats!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congrats! Good luck!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thanks Julia! Great to see Andy & Me sitting in the top 100 too. Good luck!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank you.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks Jim!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@networkisa.bsky.social Well- Good afternoon to me! The Third Time I Met the Devil has been elevated to Semifinalist in the Table Read My Screenplay - Hollywood 2026. Huge thanks to the readers in the program. Good luck to my fellow semifinalists! #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My friend Brett Rudenstein. (He’s not on bluesky.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I love this script!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A Century of Rain Hunted by a ruthless syndicate, two bearers of a lethal touch curse finally find solace in each other, only to realize that ending the cycle demands an ultimate sacrifice. #Su #Fy #Hi #Fea #PG13 #CWin #SeRe #40Up #ISA #ScreenPit #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Are You Ok? When a methodical librarian's daughter disappears into a human trafficking network, she transforms herself into a lethal investigator to infiltrate the organization and bring her home. #Dr #Th #Div #Fea #PG13 #CWin #SeRe #40Up #ISA #ScreenPit #scriptsky
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Tim Westland @timwestland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OBEAST A morbidly obese teen telekinetically controls her disembodied fat to kill all who have bullied her A totally tubular, double pop-collared homage to those wacky 1980s teen horror flicks you loved! Think "Carrie" meets "The Blob" #Fea #Ho #HoCo #40Up #PG13 #Screenpit #Scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Time the Ripper When his partner uses their time machine to escape 1888 London after a series of grisly murders, a young H.G. Wells pursues him to 1969 San Francisco, where the killer has reinvented himself as a philanthropist and the Zodiac Killer. #scriptsky #SFi #Fea #SeRe #ISA #ScreenPit
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Third Time I Met the Devil As legendary bluesman Robert Johnson lies dying, he recounts his fateful deal with the Devil and the tragic consequences of his ambition to the very entity who orchestrated his demise. #scriptsky #ScreenPit #Bi #Hi #Dr #Fea #PG13 #CWin #SeRe #40Up #ISA
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@kasibrown.bsky.social congrats on Sober Living being selected as a QF in Slamdance 2026! One of the best screenplay contests out there! Good luck the rest of the way. #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#scriptsky #firstpagefriday Congrats to all the semifinalist and second-rounders in Austin Film Fest. Welcome to the family! Here is page one of my second rounder from last year. Which seeded a feature being prepped for next year’s event.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nice work!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Congrats!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Congrats!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just enough luck to you!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I forgot the dang hash tag. #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@networkisa.bsky.social has announced its Fast Track Fall 2026 Second Rounders. The Third Time I Met the Devil is on the list with about 258 other fantastic scripts! Congrats to my fellow writers. Good luck the rest of the way. @aggiebrett.bsky.social Pretty sure I saw Three Wise Men on the list.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yep. Had that too! Fun no matter what!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
May be a glitch though. 6 of mine in consideration. But a SORT By In consideration shows none.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wow!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just got feedback who trashed my award winning script from a “credentialed” reader. Sad. Apparently the writing isn’t working out for him. (I can write the hell out of subtext. Don’t push me Karen!)
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Know what’s important? Knowing that sometimes the notes don’t apply AT all. I had feedback read by a peer reader. “About 70% of this coverage is taste and dogma masquerading as craft, while the remaining 30% hits on legitimate screenwriting mechanics.” #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I can’t figure it out either. So I reworked my Crime thriller / family drama. It’s not for them. I will focus on packaging it before next year’s deadline as an f-you.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@juliapearlstein.bsky.social Congrats on your Finalist selection in the Page Awards! Andy & Me is a fantastic script! #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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What!?
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have my space opera. Star Wars meets The Expanse meets Battlestar Galactica. I grew up making Star Wars fan fic with action figures.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Put me on your reader’s list. Please and thank you.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I stop everything I am doing to read that right now! As I Star Wars geek it is one thing I will not dare to write.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“It only adds up. If you add it up.” -Gary Gulman #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Excited to share Monitor:Crush Depth has been selected as a Quarter Finalist in the @stage32.bsky.social xWitchcraft Motion Picture Company Contained Genre Contest. This is a fun horror in the confines of an aging sub looking for a way to silence the noise. Congrats to my fellow qfs! #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congrats
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Congrats!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thanks! Molly emails are arriving shortly with official notification.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@prex4.bsky.social @pezscreenwriting.bsky.social @juliapearlstein.bsky.social @andreaberting.bsky.social @simondoyle87.bsky.social @realtimbrennan.bsky.social @lisalueylutes.bsky.social @svenanarki.bsky.social tag yourself if I missed you! Congrats on you QF on The Hollywood Table Read! #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The Third Time I Met the Devil” is going to need packaging to reach its ceiling. But its ceiling is where dreams come true! #scriptsky
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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You Birthday - Very Nice!
ALT: You Birthday - Very Nice!
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#scriptsky Reader feedback from one of my favorite contests. Pretty much what I was going for, NGL. "The Third Time I Met the Devil"
 It's a strong, beautiful, raw, gritty, and heartbreaking tale. The soundtrack will be incredible. The writer does an amazing job putting us in this world, this time, this desire, and this pain. Some of the writing and descriptions feel like songs themselves. Audiences will feel for Robert and his struggles, and wish that he could have beaten this.
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Eric Lotter @eric-writes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Working out my Austin plans this week. Put me on the “last,last call” list.
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