Gary Howell - Screenwriter

Wow! Thanks so much! Now for a long night of reading ahead of me…

Have you ever come up with an idea that so broad, so sweeping, that it almost demands to be a novel rather than a screenplay? Reading an outline that I wrote out just feels like only a novel would fully do it justice -- but the idea of writing a novel terrifies me #scriptsky #scriptchat

Rewatched the classic movie "Ordinary People," directed by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Timothy Hutton. It was the first movie I saw that made me want to start writing scripts. Wish i could find the screenplay. #scriptsky

Definitely no second!

In college, my first date with a girl I was crushing on was to a Styx concert. Had backstage passes and she winds up leaving the concert with one of the bandmembers to go to their hotel for a party.

Kinolime – Submit, Vote and Fund the Next Great Screenplay Kinolime is a community platform where writers submit screenplays and members choose the films that Kinolime will make.

I entered the Kinolime competition with my comedy "Squeal Team Six". Kinolime is a competition that is free to enter and the winner is gets an option on their script. The first two winners are in production or pre-production. You can check it out here: www.kinolime.com #scriptsky

I've been busy working on a narrative fiction podcast for Crooked Stories Theater -- and I'm directing an episode that will be dropping around 3/17. The first project - "Devil's Due" is available on most podcast outlets. Hope you'll download and give a listen! #ScriptSky #podcasts

‘Scrubs’ Reboot Gets Series Order at ABC; Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Sarah Chalke to Return ABC has picked up the reboot of "Scrubs" to series, with original stars Zach Braff, Donald Faison, and Sarah Chalke returning

Normally, I don't get excited about too much going on with television, and especially with reboots, but this one has me thoroughly pumped #ScriptSky #FilmSky
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How the year is going so far:
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Taking some time off from writing to get some much needed vacation in the Turks and Caicos! #ScriptSky #tropicallife #noshoesnoshirtnoproblem

So I get a notification from Coverfly that my comedy "Squeal Team Six" has a new badge for being in the top whatever. I mean, nice, but what am I supposed to do with that after they close up shop? #ScriptSky

What’s a movie you think nobody but you and a handful of people have heard of, that you think is a fantastic film?
#filmsky #scriptsky

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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.

#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies

3/20

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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.

#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies

2/20

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Choose 20 films that have stayed with you or influenced you. One film per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

No explanations, no reviews, just gifs.
#FilmSky #ScriptSky #Movies
1/20

Just started watching "Landman" and I think Billy Bob Thornton just makes everything he's in better. I would even watch one of those crappy Hallmark Christmas movies with Chad Michael Murray if Thornton was in it

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I celebrated National Screenwriter's Day by watching football, eating Mexican food, drinking margaritas, and not realizing it was National Screenwriter's Day, a.k.a. another day that I didn't get any writing done
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Five things you’ll find in my scripts:

* throwaway one-liners
* A wild hog being helicoptered into a football stadium
* A drug lord in a kimono
* A teen shooting off roman candles in the middle of a cattle stampede
* A man falling in love with a lifelike fembot who is sent to kill him

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after the terror attack in New Orleans and the Tesla truck fire in front of the Trump building in Vegas, I think it's time to call in the Avengers.

Ah, Christmas, the day to be with 100,000 other lost souls in the United Club as you prepare to go lose your shirt in Vegas (but at least there’s free drinks!!!)

I’m over at my daughter’s apartment for dinner and she has a Spotify playlist going and these were the first groups on the list:
Moon Taxi
Hippo Campus
Taco Cat
Mice Elf

I’m really old

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Happy Days (Intro) S3 (1976) YouTube video by RetroAlexander

That time when TV shows had one minute long theme songs #ScriptSky

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YouTube TV is raising their prices an additional $10/month beginning January 1st. Their prices have doubled in five years. Not sure it's the value it was before because half of the channels seem to be news or nonsense.

Went to see "Wicked" this evening (awesome BTW) and after watching 25 minutes of previews, I noted something really interesting -- not a single preview gave billing to a single actor, not even Tom Cruise. Are actors now such a disposable commodity you can't even acknowledge them?
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Trying something different, but writing is writing, right?

5 books to get to know me:

1. A Gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
2. Presumed Innocent - Scott Turow
3. Boy's Life - Robert McGammon
4. Bird by Bird - Anne Lamott
5. The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling (I cheated!)

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If you're into sports, especially pro football, then @minakimes.bsky.social is worth the follow.

What a day, played golf in 70 degree sunshine, watched my college FB team win, wrote a couple of pages on my WIP, had an amazing pizza for dinner with the fam, now drinking a robust cabernet. #Perfection #ScriptSky

So how about a #FirstPageFriday on a work in progress. CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR follows Jack as he tries to find love in a sea full of women who are uninterested in him. #ScriptSky

#Scriptsky silly fun. #FirstTenVerbs challenge: list out the first ten verbs as they appear in your WIP:

emerges
rolls
extends
wipes
strains
pull
find
stands
drops
comes

I promise this page is neither about going to the bathroom or having sex.

So I got my answer -- If you're in classic view on your dashboard, go to "Tools" and then "Options" (at the very bottom), and you'll see the "Auto-Save Every--" feature, and you can click that to be on, and choose how often to automatically save your script (I have mine set for every 15 minutes).