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A note on what comes next

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👋🏻 Hello, Substack friends! 👋🏻

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last post, and my. goodness. a lot has happened.

1️⃣ My job has been… exceptionally stressful. I don’t want to give that too much energy, but I will summarize this with: I’ve been trying to force a fit that isn’t good for me, for too long; I need a change of pace; I need more mental bandwidth and physical energy to live my life and be my best, creative self.

Highlights: I have put in my two weeks, I have something lined up that fits my values as a person (in an industry I care about, and with women in leadership), and I will fully transition jobs by the end of March 2026. I have promised to not mix work with writing too much here, so if you’re curious about my current career and next moves, I’ll update my LinkedIn at some point in March. Watch there 👀

2️⃣ I attended the San Francisco Writer’s conference! So much to say about this too, but I’m short on time this evening. I’ve got a local film industry mixer to get to!

Highlights: I pitched my written screenplay (The Woman’s Order) and another story I have planned to Hollywood management execs, they loved both, and I have a handshake on representation so long as they think they can work with me.

Given those major shifts, I’ve also decided that I’ll be deliberately shaping my Substack into a few focus areas: film, flash fiction, and reflections. As part of the focus on film, I’d like to announce…

📣 🎥 Coming Soon: Feels from Reels

This will be a movie review series where I watch a movie, and then I record the feelings and thoughts the story brings out of me, without giving too much away. I’ve had this on the back burner for a while, but I’ll be sending my first article in this series this weekend. As a screenwriter, this helps surface and explore the emotions that good character arcs should make the audience feel, and incorporate that into my own writing. Stay tuned!

💝 Thank you, reader!

If you read this or anything else I’ve written, thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Best,

Becky Steele | ladyofsteele