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Write me a fucking letter

  • Writer: Amanda Riddell
    Amanda Riddell
  • Feb 3, 2024
  • 1 min read

Show me that a) you're willing to put time into maintaining our relationship.

b) that you bloody well are willing to accept that my goals in life are not Jane's goals. I have my own goals for my life and career, and most of them are articulated on this blog.

c) you're genuinely concerned for my wellbeing (and willing to risk me lashing out at you). -

That's what writing to me would mean. _

Not writing makes you seem like callous pricks that want to exploit me for money while pretending as if we're best friends and always were (which we weren't). Most of my peers made fun of me behind my back. I remember that, so stop pretending as if I'm your saviour because you're trying to flatter my ego. Instead, how about some reciprocity for all the dozens, if not hundreds, of emails that I sent to my so-called friends back before I was on the air 24/7 thanks to the weed cause? I took the time to write to you; the least you could do is take the time to reply, or to send me an unprompted letter. Sadly, that hasn't happened, so I'm challenging you shits to write to me. - That's basic courtesy. That's friendship; this isn't.


 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Feb 02, 2024

Put another way, I'm lonely, and I'm lonely because nobody is willing to write to me. At least Lucinda calls occasionally, but it's not like I've got a bunch of people that are in my life and willing to hang out. - Instead, I've got people saying 'be a star and we'll respect you' -- I don't care. How about being my friend first? How about getting to know me? - If you do that, you might begin to understand why I'm saying no as a matter of principle regarding those scripts. This wasn't how to conduct a contract negotiation, and it also didn't solve any of my emotional or financial problems. - So, I'm saying that you've used up all your chances. I've decided I'm writing a book,…

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
Feb 02, 2024
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This is why I hate the NZ film industry. To them, it's all about playing it safe. To them, that's what my Tina script is: something safe about a woke topic; even then, they don't think that my script is woke enough. That scene where I talked about how much I hated the trans labels was really good, but I strongly suspect that the PC brigade would tell me to cut that. I don't want to play it safe. I wrote a really good score for my 2030 musical. -

While my 2030 script is actually about the only topic that truly counts, yet they're afraid that to film it would be to legitimise violence.

That's absolute bollocks, and I would expect that…


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