Joe Favalaro
writer. creative person. canadian.
amateur picturemaker. functioning melancholic.
rep: maddy weese | bellevue productions.
www.theonlywriterever.com
- Some 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.
- When 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.
- It 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.
- And we’ve got a first draft. First new spec in awhile, first new spec of the new year. Feels good to finish something. #scriptsly
- 100 pages in. On the home stretch for the new horror spec. I fuckin’ love writing.
- 80 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.
- Variety should get Alex Garland and Ari Aster into a room for a special edition of Directors on Directors.
- Who will we be when the smoke finally dissipates Who will be we when the first laugh breaks through the endless wailing.
- 86 ‘26. Getting ahead of it now.
- Year end roundup. Some of my favourite books I read this year. Some revisits, some new discoveries:
- 2025: The Year We Learned What It Feels Like to Live Inside An Actively Rotting Corpse.
- 20 pages into the new spec, on track to finish this shit by the end of the year. I fuckin’ love writing.
- Winter 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?
- I’ve got a bad feeling.
- Rest 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.
- I think I chose the wrong decade to quit drinking.
- “The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on its shroud.” ― J.G. Ballard, Kingdom Come.
- I can’t wait to write tomorrow.
- depression season.
- The joys and sorrows of creation.
- Why buy a book shelf when you can make on yourself? Finally got ‘em all out of storage. Misery Pit (my office) feels complete now.
- Why 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.
- Anyone else secretly find it quietly exciting but softly terrifying to be living inside an Adam Curtis documentary?
- Ah fuck, I think I might write another baseball movie. What is wrong with me.
- New 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
- “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.
- Had to send my camera in for (hopefully) a repair. Big bummer not being able to go out and shoot.
- Starting to get a corrosive feeling that my particularly dark flavour of storytelling is something the world will never want. How liberating.
- maybe we’re all just living in the carcass of a dream that died a long time ago.
- Every time I’m compelled to write a script in reaction to the world, I lose my way, because, I firmly believe that the more local I am in my writing, the more universal it becomes. When my vision becomes too wide in scope, it loses its potency. And we can’t be having that in times like these.
- I haven’t watched this much baseball since I was 14. We are most certainly in the end times.
- Still absolutely firm in my belief that we’d be better off as a species if more people admitted and embraced that we have no fucking clue what we’re doing.
- Spec is out in the world. People reading. Everything out of my control. Feels good to let go.
- Had a great time chatting ‘bout my path into screenwriting at Hamilton Film Festival with Hamilton Film Board this past weekend. Being on a stage without violently loud amplifiers drowning out my voice was strange but still a good time. #screenwriting
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- Dead List day is always a good day! Some wild loglines on here to sink your teeth into and, speaking of teeth-- Stoked to have something a little different on the Dead List this time around. My body horror short story, The Thing With Teeth, is available to read! #TheDeadList
- Lights. Camera. RADNESS— The hottest new horror scripts in Hollywood are here, featuring produced pros & emerging voices from The #DeadList. Season 3 is LIVE and nothing short of sinister. Access in bio, but don’t miss the marquee preview below☠️👇🏻 #scriptsky #filmsky
- Nothing better than getting a great note that makes you abolsutely stoked to rewrite. Chop wood, carry water.
- First spec going out on Monday. Simultaneously excited and terrified.
- On Saturday, I'm joining a panel at the local film fest to chat about my path into screenwriting and, with every second inching closer to it, my imposter syndrome grows larger and larger teeth.
