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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

a baby shower, except it's everything you need to make your feature film

Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

treat every creative you meet like they are successful, fulfilled, and making a living at what they say they do. talk to everyone like they're a pro. don't assume they're struggling just because you don't know their work. this will change the tenor of your conversations.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I mean...I'm no degrowther, but could we just tone things down a little bit?

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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

finally doing that thing you didn't want to do because now you have something you want to do even less

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

you guys, SINNERS is so good? Like, I can't believe this is a studio movie. Went in blind as I love to do. Vaguely knew it was a horror film. Then spent the 2+ hours watching this complex allegory unfold. Also, incredible production design. Meticulous directing. Much spectacle. Funny. Go see it.

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

how is there so much incredible TV to watch but also no jobs.

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

go see COMPANION! It is streaming now and it's a really fun twisty thriller comedy?! also, if you're into grounded genre, and have managed not to be spoiled/watch the trailer, try and go in blind. It's better that way, and I promise you won't be disappointed.

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

holy shit black mirror season 7 premiere is the most incredible take on enshittification ever

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

writing is reheating (your tea, all day long, you should make a fresh cup but you're in the zone)

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Carole Kirschner @carolekirschner.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The hardest truth about breaking into TV writing? 'Good' isn't good enough anymore. Your sample needs to be BLAZING HOT. Not 'shows promise.' Not 'solid.' The kind of script that makes people stop what they're doing and call you immediately.

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Even in an uber-competitive industry like TV writing, there will always be people who try to pull you back toward the median (“you don’t need another spec sample”, “the script doesn’t need to be perfect, it’s going to change in development anyway”, etc….) Ignore those people.

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Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

NEW JAVI LESSONS! NEW JAVI LESSONS!!!

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

There is an entire mini-series called EXTRAPOLATIONS, which sounds like Black Mirror for climate change, came out in 2023, features a star-studded cast (Meryl Streep, Kit Harrington, Daveed Diggs...), and which I never heard of till today because it's on Apple TV. Has anyone seen? Is it good?

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

reps sent out a pilot Friday and started setting meetings Monday. Things are *finally* moving it seems

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

And plenty of people are very vocal online while doing literally nothing else IRL

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

SING SING is awesome. A24 totally dropped the ball on marketing and promoting this movie about a theater troupe in a men's prison, but the writing and direction are wonderful and Coleman Domingo is perfect in it. Best Adapted Screenplay nom is so well-deserved.

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Kumail Nanjiani @kumail.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Finding some flaws in the “survive till 25” strategy.

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javier grillo-marxuach @okbjgm.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

a hilarious case of “i’m shocked, SHOCKED”. many art forms cost little and require no compromise. art for the masses costing millions DEMANDS accessibility to exist. what divides the pros from the whiners is the ability to deliver BOTH art and commerce. apple.news/AFH9Ls83fQ0u...

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‘Not second screen enough’: is Netflix deliberately dumbing down TV so people can watch while scrolling? — Guardian US

Streaming insiders have claimed they’re being made to rewrite scripts for viewers who use their phones while watching. Is this the end of prestige TV? Or pure fiction?

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

hope everyone had a super productive 14 hours without TikTok

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

It's OKAY to reach out to your reps right now. They're your team! Obvi make sure they're okay first. And don't assume they read the thing you sent right before the holidays. But if you're easing back into work, let them know you're ready to chat when they are. It's not insensitive if you're gentle.

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Caroline Renard @carolinerenard.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

If you are donating items, please mindful that this is not an opportunity to unload your trash and junk. If you wouldn’t want to receive stained, dirty, unwashed, expired things, please don’t do this to them either. New or gently used. Clean. Not expired.

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I know LA is nursing what feels like a giant open wound right now, but my medium-term hope is that these fires push the industry to activate, rather than becoming a reason to hit pause yet again. The vibes will never be immaculate. If we want TV and film to stay in LA, we have to make it so.

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Every single person in LA knows at least one person who has lost everything Everyone

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I expected a big dumb straight to streaming Christmas movie with terrible writing… Instead, I got CARRY-ON, which was way more fun than I expected!

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? TV writer: Don't know what you're talking about. I've been gainfully self-employed by my S-Corp Purple Plaid Pants Inc., where I spearhead "ideation and spec writing," since Fall of 2023.

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

grossest thing about the latest in the IT ENDS WITH US Lively/Baldoni drama is that (if true, idk what to believe anymore tbh) this smear campaign against Blake was perpetuated by a team of women who recognized that the Internet loves to hate on women and were happy to exploit that for the right $

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Shannon & Swift @shannonandswift.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"And every December, the studios would throw huuuge holiday parties and invite all the writers who had worked for them that year..."

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

got halfway through this when I realized I was just sitting there with a massive smile on my face. this woman is an incredible musician and her Tiny Desk Concert is the best thing I've seen this month: youtu.be/-91vymvIH0c?...

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Doechii: Tiny Desk Concert

YouTube video by NPR Music

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

my Spotify wrapped: GAWD IF YOU LOVE REMI WOLF SO MUCH WHY DON'T YOU JUST MARRY HER

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

watched ALL THAT BREATHES on the flight back to LA last night. It's about a group of men in New Delhi who have dedicated themselves to saving the Kites -- a predatory bird population that is dying out (they're literally falling from the sky because of the extreme pollution in Delhi)

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

as the screenwriting gurus flood bluesky, remember that all conventional breaking-in "advice" is at least five years old, and that if this industry is a house, most people are advising you to get in line at the door...🧵

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

nobody wants some of these live-action remakes. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON still has an animated dragon! and it looks exactly the same as the original Dreamworks dragon (understandable as that dragon was already at peak cuteness.) WHY HOLLYWOOD WHY???!!!

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

somehow I missed that three Columbian children + 1 baby survived a plane crash and FORTY DAYS alone in the Amazon jungle last year but now I'm all caught up thanks to THE LOST CHILDREN. A truly bonkers story and incredible doc on Netflix.

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"no more limited series" until BABY REINDEER "hard funny comedies plz" until THE BEAR sweeps the Emmy's "AI is too topical" until a spec called ALIGNMENT sells for 3 mil Nobody. Knows. Anything.

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Daniel Bergstresser @dbergstresser.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Poem by Joseph Fasano

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Literally embarrassing how many times my husband has heard me tell the same stories

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Every year I think there’s no way I can eat dinner at 4:00 pm and every year I am once again proven incorrect

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I am also choosing to believe this is a low point, and a phase change, not the beginning of the end.

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Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Instagram ads: Here’s the specific water bottle your were talking about yesterday and a sweater pre-selected in your favorite color 𝕏 ads: Here’s 9000 Cheech & Chong gummies and a promoted post from user TrumpsAmericaa420 that just says “the Jews”

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

If I can take a giant swig out of my water bottle, I think that should be enough to convince TSA that I'm just trying to get home for Thanksgiving and this hydroflask is not bomb juice.

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God @thegodshow.com · 24/11/2024

Been thinking a lot lately about that episode of Parks and Rec where Leslie and Tom have to rebrand fluoride in the water as TDazzle in order to get the public to support it.

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Shruti Saran @shrutesnladders.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

everything I've been submitted to and met on ended up hiring MLs and ULs only. problem seems to be that LLs cost more now, there is no mandate for them in the new MBA, and it makes more fiscal sense to hire producer-level writers who can be kept on through production. it's very rough out here.

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