Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Starting to think that maybe I should quit writing. That everything I write just has no place in this world. 850
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Interview time. Christ, I hate how nervous these things make me. 010
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 17/03/2026in the age of obscenity, decency becomes a mandatory, revolutionary act. 000
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 14/03/2026New piece up on my SubStack. Quitting Smoking At The End of the World. open.substack.com/pub/theonlyw...open.substack.comQuitting Smoking At The End of the WorldThere’s a certain flavour to giving up something that’s been with you for so long. 000
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Haven’t had a ”regular job” in nearly 6 years. Went back to school during the pandemic. Mostly scraped by, finding odd jobs here and there. Have zero savings. No future. Unattainable dreams. Ample pessimism. But I finally landed an interview next week. Back to the food industry I go. 1100
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Nice to get some feedback like this. Probably the most high-concept script I’ve written yet. Chop wood, carry water. 020
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 05/03/2026stockpiling psychedelics for the end of the world. 020
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Kinda want to take some psychedelics and watch the State of the Union just to see how well my brain handles it. 100
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Poster for a new horror spec. Second new draft of the year. I fuckin’ love writing. Chop wood, carry water. 040
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 22/02/2026The US probably needed a win like that before they go to war again for another 20 years. 000
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Kinda want to load one of screenplays into ChatGPT to see if I can get it to kill itself. If you’ve read my work, you know it’s a possibility. 000
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 19/02/202675 pages into the new spec. Man, I fuckin love writing. 010
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 12/02/2026A question that’s been circulating around my skull a lot lately has been - “Is it ethical to be alive?” - a strange thing to have running around in one's brain. 010
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 09/02/202632 years old today. With time, I bend like a brittle branch. 110
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 08/02/2026“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.“ — David Graeber 011
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026First page of my take on a haunted house story where the real threat isn‘t the home but the realtor selling it. Logline: “When their breakup forces them to sell their dream home, a dysfunctional young couple suspects their eccentric realtor is concealing a horrifying secret.” #scriptsky 0101
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Finished yet another rewatch of The Invisible Man. Holds up every damn time. Such a great movie. I’d kill to write a script for and work with @conanthecontrarian.bsky.social someday. 000
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Some days, you just want to give up and let that boulder roll down the hill right over you. And yet, here I am, pushing that mass up because I cannot do anything but carry on. I can’t wait to write tomorrow. 010
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 21/01/2026When I wrote my first novel, it was dystopian fiction. It wasn’t written well — that of a young, inexperienced writer — but some of the shit I put in that book… I might need to rewrite it and republish it. 010
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 20/01/2026It is now abundantly clear that the United States of America no longer yearns to be a shining city upon a hill for the many but more so, an outhouse, gold-plated and haphazardly propped up, by a pile of bloated corpses, for the few. 000
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 15/01/2026And we’ve got a first draft. First new spec in awhile, first new spec of the new year. Feels good to finish something. #scriptsly 040
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 14/01/2026100 pages in. On the home stretch for the new horror spec. I fuckin’ love writing. 030
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 10/01/202680 pages into the new spec I don’t know if this thing is any good I don’t really care, sometimes you just have to write. 030
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Variety should get Alex Garland and Ari Aster into a room for a special edition of Directors on Directors. 020
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Who will we be when the smoke finally dissipates Who will be we when the first laugh breaks through the endless wailing. 030
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Year end roundup. Some of my favourite books I read this year. Some revisits, some new discoveries: 110
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 23/12/20252025: The Year We Learned What It Feels Like to Live Inside An Actively Rotting Corpse. 120
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 18/12/202520 pages into the new spec, on track to finish this shit by the end of the year. I fuckin’ love writing. 020
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Winter turns me into a lunatic because every single time, I ended up writing and finishing a new script. Will it happen again this year? It might. Fuck it, right? 040
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Rest in peace to the person I used to be. Five years ago today, I quit drinking. I didn’t achieve anything professionally this year, but I did accomplish this, and above everything, this is what matters most. Chop wood, carry water. 2120
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 06/12/2025I think I chose the wrong decade to quit drinking. 000
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 05/12/2025“The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on its shroud.” ― J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come. 010
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Why buy a book shelf when you can make on yourself? Finally got ‘em all out of storage. Misery Pit (my office) feels complete now. 140
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Why would I use a hallucinating AI to castrate my imagination and creativity when I can just as easily expand it the natural way — Pharmaceutically induced hallucinations made possible by my trusted friends — DMT, LSD & Mescaline. 000
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Anyone else secretly find it quietly exciting but softly terrifying to be living inside an Adam Curtis documentary? 000
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Ah fuck, I think I might write another baseball movie. What is wrong with me. 360
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 14/11/2025New draft of a very exciting rewrite sent off to my manager. Time to burn the old one. Fuck, do I ever love rewriting. Made a fresh poster for it. #scriptsky #screenwriting 3211
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 14/11/2025“And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.” ― Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or. 010
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Had to send my camera in for (hopefully) a repair. Big bummer not being able to go out and shoot. 000
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Starting to get a corrosive feeling that my particularly dark flavour of storytelling is something the world will never want. How liberating. 010
Joe Favalaro @joefavalaro.bsky.social · 04/11/2025maybe we’re all just living in the carcass of a dream that died a long time ago. 010