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Mags Doyle

@magsedoyle.bsky.social
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Screenwriter always trying to make room for a little poetry. Writing films that feature powerful female characters taking on thorny problems. Indie films and festivals rule. 🤓💪 Long live independent voices in art and media.

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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
If you are living/working or walking around Vancouver these days, keep an eye out for copies of Vancouver On Ink magazine, it has a lot of great local poets work and one from myself called Just Buy the Flowers. 💐 #Vancouver
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Thrilled #PTA won for best screenplay for his screenwriting for One Battle After Another. #goldenglobes
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I’m Maggie and I love to write female centric family dramas that give actors a fun and challenging opportunity to dive into what keep a family together and what tears it apart. my screenplay, BUSH, was a semi-finalist for The Writers Lab and Official Selection for the San Pedro Film Festival 2025. 🤓
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Are these the same companies that told us the robot could do it?
Wall Street Journal headlines that says Companies Are Desperately Seeking ‘Storytellers’
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 23/11/2025
In honor of the great Robert Towne, who was born on this day, read his brilliant screenplay for Chinatown and listen to Towne and director David Fincher engage in an enlightening discussion about every facet of this compelling film. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/roman-polans... #Filmsky
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Just make sure to see this movie in a theatre. I beg you. You’ll be glad you did. #pta
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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Larry Gelbart: "When you’re in trouble at the end, it’s because you were in trouble in the beginning. There’s no point in writing the end over and over again. You have to go back and give yourself the opportunity to finish successfully.” gointothestory.blcklst.com/screenwritin... #screenwriting
Screenwriter Larry Gelbart
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Great to connect with some writer pals and see all the amazing work being produced in my hometown and across BC! Was inspiring to see so many young writers and artists still fiercely going after their art and putting it out there. Thanks Word Vancouver for a soul-filling day. #bcwriters
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
I’m thrilled to share my feature screenplay, BUSH, is an Official Selection for the San Pedro Film Festival! Always so encouraging to be read and supported. #screenwriting
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After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 02/08/2025
"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people." -- Virginia Woolf
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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
One month for prep. Write 1 page per day. One month for revisions and editing. Do that and you complete 2 spec scripts per year. #screenwriting
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I’ve been reading Graydon Carter’s book, When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines, and could weep at the support (and $), his writers got at Vanity Fair. Also wonderful stories of his early life in Canada. A wonderful read.
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Finally watched I’m Still Here and it is incredibly relevant right now. A cautionary tale of there ever was one Canada. Incredible acting and beautiful cinematography but sobering insight into Brazil’s history. 🇨🇦 Vote Canada, it matters!
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Ha! Nice one.☝️
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This IKEA copywriter sure is going all in on their food metaphors here. 😂 #copywriting
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I really wished Brady Cornet had won best director but I loved Sean Baker’s acceptance speech. ❤️🍾🎬 #oscars
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In case you need a photo of my ginger cat sleeping on his baby blanket. ❤️🐈
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Saw The Brutalist and it’s so obvious how deeply Brady Cornet loves the art of filmmaking. It’s in every shot, every frame and story beat. And Adrien Brody should take the Oscar. Full stop. I loved the intermission image too. ❤️ #scriptsky
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Some English Bay vibes for you. Took a very short writing weekend away but so glad I did. Sometimes just leaving for 48 hours can give your story a real lift. ✍️ #scriptsky #screenwriting
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
100 per cent!😊
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The silver lining of the deep freeze happening in Vancouver right now is I will be forced to stay home this weekend and write and get something out of my mind, off my computer and into a publisher’s inbox. 📥 📝 #writing
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Just breaking up apocalypse posts with this handsome face, my ginger cat Charlie who is 100 per cent Canadian and ready for the resistance. 🫡🐈🇨🇦 #catsforCanada
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Trying to finish a chapbook by the end of this particular month feels like trying to concentrate while hanging onto a wing of a plane flying through a lightning storm. I’ll try but holy hell it’s hard to not think about all the chaos going on. #amwriting
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a man says i 'm trying to focus
ALT: a man says i 'm trying to focus
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I was just doing a little nosing around on @markcarney2025.bsky.social digital presence and sir, please hire a #ux strategist and if there’s no budget, I’m happy to help point out some critical issues. This is no time for poor content design!! 🇨🇦
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Scott Myers @gointothestory.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Pitching Advice: Create a “Pitch Persona.” It’s not a fake version of you, rather it’s a *performing* version of you. With a lesson from rock icon David Bowie. gointothestory.blcklst.com/pitching-adv... #screenwriting #scriptsky
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
When even your cat is excited about the new poetry book you brought home. 🤓🐈
Cat with a poetry book.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.
Photo of Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
RIP The Washington Post’s integrity
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Jo Coyne @jopolkadot.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year 💫 Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson 2017
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I was not prepared for the power of Small Things Like These. It asks you into its world in a gentle way then utterly breaks your heart. An important film written by Enda Walsh, adapted from the book by Claire Keegan about the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland. Cillian Murphy is brilliant. #filmsky
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Happy holidays friends, hope those with orange cats have survived the day with no major incidents. 🤪🐈
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
A few great books I read this year. Not new as in latest bestsellers, but new to me. I find new books kind of expensive and often find barely used books with price tags still on them in thrift stores. When I do buy, it’s from a local bookstore. Or the Library! 📚 🥰🎄🎁 #booksky
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
After wrestling with the reason for a character’s death in my thriller for SIX months, I finally nailed it today. It is the lynchpin for the antagonist and it just wasn’t working until today. Now everything works like a Swiss clock and I can finally finish this feature. 🤟📝🎁#screenwriting #scriptsky
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a woman in a green dress with the words " it 's victory " on the bottom
ALT: a woman in a green dress with the words " it 's victory " on the bottom
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Giving back to my local theatre and volunteering for some usher duty. Sweet to see a lot of kids coming out to an evening show at the White Rock Players. Kind of fun to be working front of house and not be in the booth or backstage ready to vomit from nerves. 😬 #theatre
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I’ve never seen this on a package before but can’t support this enough. #ux
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Took a break from writing today and I don’t regret it. Sometimes you just have to get away from the page to soak in some nature and inspiration. #scriptsky #amwriting
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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“Generative Artificial Intelligence models are built on a foundation of intellectual property theft and plagiarism; recent news developments offer further confirmation of that theft.”
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Spent the afternoon with my Fraser Valley Writers group and got some great feedback on my latest feature. It is shocking how after so much time hunched over this #screenplay I still have work to do but nevertheless, I will persist until it’s ready for show. 💪📝✍️🤓🎥🍿🎬 #scriptsky #writing #film
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Great interview w two #UBC profs about gladiators and Ridley Scott’s upcoming sequel. Also, I would love to take their course! Looks so interesting. #Gladiator2 news.ubc.ca/2024/11/glad...
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Gladiators’ reality didn’t always match the movies - UBC News
Two UBC instructors discuss the real world of Roman gladiators and how it compares with the movies.
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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
This is the rallying call that I've needed to hear since November 6th. From Roxane Gay in today's New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/o...
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I recently rewatched a Taste of Things flawlessly directed by Trần Anh Hùng and honestly, it’s a perfect film. And seriously underrated in my humble opinion. A true feast for the senses and I guarantee it will give you a gorgeous few hours of respite. Juliette Binoche is incandescent. #scriptsky
Woman and man cook together.
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Really enjoying the @wgfoundation.bsky.social writing festival, great talk about research this morning with Challengers writer Justin Kuritzkes. #scriptsky
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The Finish Line Script Competition @finishlinescript.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Highly suggest everyone take 15 minutes to watch Bogota Story by Esteban Pedraza, which has just won the Short film Oscar in Colombia and I believe will win in the USA as well. Enjoy. www.newyorker.com/culture/scre...
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Here’s my writing partner Oona. She startles easily but is 100 per cent committed to long haul editing sessions. 🥰✍️📝🐈‍⬛ #scriptsky #writercats
Black cat.
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Remembrance Day here in Canada and I’m thinking of my dad and all the others who fought for our freedom. Who knew I’d be worried about them in 2024 but here we are. I won’t let his sacrifice be for nought I can tell you that. (My dad far left with his fellow Spitfire pilots for the RCAF.)
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Pretty excited to join the Writers Guild Foundation this coming Fri/Sat for their WG Festival 2024 conference. Opening speaker is Denis Villeneuve. I hope to get a spot in the pitch workshop but also terrified. 😬👀 #screenwriting
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Oh thanks Adele, that’s helpful!😊
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Mags Doyle @magsedoyle.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Like lots of women looking for less toxic spaces online, I’m hoping to connect with other writers and in particular female #screenwriters! Looking forward to getting to know more creators here. 📝📚🤓
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Gennefer Gross @gennefer.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Good Fortune Burger in Toronto renamed their menu items office supplies so customers could expense them. HEROES.
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