Not only can she not pronounce the names, but she speaks almost entirely in cliches, and she does it with a pacing unfortunately reminiscent of Captain Kirk. It’s somewhere between hilarious and infuriating. 😂🤪

When I actuallly read down to that point in the recipe, I discovered that’s what I do with mine too. I could have gone ahead and done another batch! 😂

I am also always amazed, given how slow-moving it is, that molasses manages to get absolutely everywhere.

I take comfort in the fact that, no matter how old I get, licking the bowl is still the best part of baking.

If anyone is in search of a good gingerbread recipe, this is the one I’ve come to swear by. It has a great depth of flavour without being overwhelming.

I also recommend turning off the automatic updates. It will try to annoy you into turning them back on, but you do get a functional product they can’t suddenly inject AI into overnight.

Even though it's designed for features, I found the information really useful as I was putting my pilot back together. A few of the items on the checklist work slightly differently in television and in film, but the actual checklist itself is relevant to both.

Definitely worth checking out!

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The podcast is an episode of the Screenwriting Life called The Feature Film Story Engine Checklist (episode 263 rebroadcast Sept 18th).

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This book gives advice, then presents you with exercises that guide you along the way in baby steps. It's teaching you how to think. Also, the example script is a generic episode of Everybody Loves Raymond.

Everyone's process is different and YMMV, but this is helping me at the moment.

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I'm finding it helpful, because unlike many of the other books I've read, it doesn't give you advice and then present you with an example like Breaking Bad (or whatever), like here, recreate this, one of the best scripts ever written.

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