The Write Process

By UCLA Extension Writers' Program

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Episodes: 122

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All writing is a tightrope walk from where the idea originates to the moment a book, movie, or TV episode emerges in the world. In The Write Process, Charles Jensen, director of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, asks writing instructors and students who’ve walked the tightrope and come out the other side to talk about their process. Each episode tells the story of how one writer took one project from concept to completion, showcasing the various—and varied—paths we take when we follow one good idea all the way home.

Episode Date
Cole Kazdin on What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
Jan 16, 2025
Lena Nelson on America's Youngest Ambassador
Jan 02, 2025
Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo on Incantation: Love Poems for Battle Sites
Dec 19, 2024
Elba Iris Pérez on The Things We Didn’t Know
Dec 05, 2024
Kelli McNeil-Yellen on DARUMA
Nov 21, 2024
Teresa Yang on Nothing But the Tooth: An Insider’s Guide to Dental Health
Nov 08, 2024
Mylo Lam on And Not / And Yet
Oct 24, 2024
Michael Jann on Bug Therapy
Oct 11, 2024
Hillary Yablon on Sylvia’s Second Act
Sep 27, 2024
Shawna Kenney on I Was a Teenage Dominatrix
Sep 20, 2024
Jarrod Shusterman and Sofia Lapuente on Retro
Aug 29, 2024
Mary-Alice Daniel on Mass for Shut-Ins
Jan 05, 2024
Jeff Bonnett on Falling for Christmas
Dec 22, 2023
Nancy Pine on One in a Billion: One Man’s Remarkable Odyssey through Modern-Day China
Dec 06, 2023
Denise Cruz-Castino on 5 Weddings
Nov 24, 2023
Sana Balagamwala on House Number 12 Block Number 3
Nov 10, 2023
Tamika Thompson on Unshod, Cackling, and Naked
Oct 27, 2023
Julia Camara on Stronghold
Oct 13, 2023
Cynthia Dewi Oka on A Tinderbox in Three Acts
Sep 29, 2023
Keyonna Taylor on The Adimverse
Sep 15, 2023
Kristin Griffith on Rush: Memoir of Gay Sorority Girl
Aug 30, 2023
Shiwani Srivastava on Wedding Season
Aug 17, 2023
J. Ryan Stradal on Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
Aug 04, 2023
Iris Yamashita on City Under One Roof
Jan 04, 2023
Lou Mathews on Shaky Town
Dec 16, 2022
Catherine Klatzker on You Will Never Be Normal
Dec 05, 2022
Gabe Gabriel on Runs in the Family
Nov 18, 2022
Grace Perry on The 2000s Made Me Gay
Nov 04, 2022
María Amparo Escandón on L.A. Weather
Oct 21, 2022
Maria Gabriela Cardenas on A Dark Foe
Oct 07, 2022
Tom Pinchuk on Remember Andy Xenon?
Sep 23, 2022
Nadiya Chettiar on Young Sheldon
Sep 09, 2022
Pete Hsu on If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home
Aug 25, 2022
Tembi Locke on Writing From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Aug 12, 2022
Jean Chen Ho on 100 writing days, draft breadcrumbs, nice pens, revision lists, and Fiona and Jane
Jan 07, 2022
Alexandra Alessandri on First Lines, Reading Picture Books Aloud, and Feliz New Year, Ava Gabriela!
Dec 17, 2021
Jennifer J. Chow on Writing in a Pandemic, Outlining a Mystery, and Mimi Lee Cracks the Code
Dec 03, 2021
Darrin L. Dortch on Pitching 3 Jokes, Punching Up Scenes on Set, Black Voices, and Claws
Nov 19, 2021
Aminah Mae Safi on Finding the Core Story, Juggling Projects, and This Is All Your Fault
Nov 05, 2021
Kenji C. Liu on Frankensteining Poems, Collections as Mixtapes, and Monsters I Have Been
Oct 22, 2021
Paria Hassouri on Discovering the Writer Within, Journaling, Finding an Agent, & Found in Transition
Oct 06, 2021
Christina Strain on Writing for Herself, Managers, Goonies, and Finding O’Hana
Sep 24, 2021
Julie Wong on Writing Covid, Sneaking Food onto Set, Expanding Representation, and Grey’s Anatomy
Sep 09, 2021
Elle Johnson on Researching Memoir, Weaving Story Threads, Finding Theme, and The Officer’s Daughter
Aug 26, 2021
Tod Goldberg on Gangsters, Human-Made Seas, Short Fiction Tricks, and The Low Desert
Aug 12, 2021
Melissa Rosenberg on Adapting Comics, Creative Control, and Showrunning Marvel’s Jessica Jones
Jul 30, 2021
Brian Shin on the Medical Procedural, Why Representation Matters, and The Good Doctor.
Dec 04, 2020
Michael Werwie on Writing Against Genre and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
Nov 13, 2020
Cindy Lin on Stealing Time, Polishing Drafts, Uncovering Solutions and The Twelve
Oct 30, 2020
Aatif Rashid on Novel Structure, the Right Title, Small Presses, and Portrait of Sebastian Khan
Oct 16, 2020
Wally Rudolph on Photographic Inspiration, the Decline of Whiteness, and Mighty, Mighty
Sep 18, 2020
Kira Snyder on Unexpected Guests, Tricky Adaptation, and The Handmaid’s Tale
Sep 04, 2020
Zimran Jacob on Getting into a Writer's Room, Doing Research, and The Punisher
Jan 06, 2020
Colette Sartor on Linking Stories, Good Revision Advice, and Once Removed and Other Stories
Dec 20, 2019
Shauna Barbosa on the Language of Home, Keeping Trust in Yourself, and Cape Verdean Blues.
Dec 06, 2019
Owen Husney on Little Lies, Discovering Prince, and Famous People Who’ve Met Me.
Nov 21, 2019
Monica Holloway on Telling the Hard Truth, Publication Repercussions, and Driving with Dead People
Nov 08, 2019
April Shih on Vomit Drafts, Letting Your Characters Change You, 69 F-bombs, and You’re the Worst
Oct 23, 2019
Sheryl Recinos on Surviving Teen Homelessness, Self-publishing, and Hindsight
Oct 11, 2019
Barbara Stepansky on the Flint Water Crisis, Adapting Journalism, 45-page Treatments, and Flint
Sep 27, 2019
Henry Lien on Worldbuilding, Puzzle Stories, Middle Grade, & Peasprout Chen: Battle of Champions
Sep 13, 2019
Stuart Beattie on the Politics of Writing War, 5 Key Scenes, & Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
Aug 30, 2019
Hollie Overton on Greed, Reimagining Fairy Tales, Seeing Yourself in Characters, and Tell Me a Story
Aug 16, 2019
Natashia Deón on Unforgettable Visions, Writing Historical Fiction, Sticking with It, and Grace.
Aug 01, 2019
Lilliam Rivera on the Summerlong Punishment of The Education of Margot Sanchez
May 10, 2019
Moisès Zamora on Human Trafficking, Immigration, and American Crime
Apr 26, 2019
Laurel Ollstein on Jerrie Cobb, Sexism, the Mercury 7, and They Promised Her the Moon
Apr 12, 2019
Mae Respicio on a Room of Her Own and The House that Lou Built
Mar 29, 2019
Miguel Murphy on Poetry, Shame, Fetishes, What We Do in the Dark, and Detainee
Mar 15, 2019
Dorothy Blyskal on Fate, Writing a Script in Six Days, Adapting Books, and The 15:17 to Paris
Mar 01, 2019
Greta Heinemann on Murder, Terrorism, Mayoral Elections, and NCIS: New Orleans
Feb 15, 2019
Liska Jacobs on Day Job Revenge, Unapologetic Women, and Catalina
Jan 31, 2019
Elissa Matsueda on Childbirth Deadlines, Ensemble Films, Her Fear of Dogs, and Dog Days
Jan 17, 2019
Write Process Season 1 Preview
Jan 17, 2019
Mark Sarvas on Memento Park and Searching for Art Lost in the Holocaust
Jan 02, 2019
Jennifer Caloyeras on Puberty, Zoophilia, Magical Realism, and Unruly Creatures
Dec 21, 2018
Welcome to The Write Process
Nov 26, 2018
Zac Hug on Shadowhunters
Sep 07, 2018