Write Your Screenplay Podcast
By Jacob Krueger
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Jul 25, 2018
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Rather than rating movies and TV shows like a critic, “two thumbs up” or “two thumbs down,” WGA Award Winning screenwriter Jacob Krueger breaks down scripts without judgment (from scripts you loved, to scripts you hated) to show you what you can learn from them as screenwriters. Plus meet special guests, and get answers to your most pressing screenwriting questions! WriteYourScreenplay.com
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Beef Season 2: Metaphor, Engine, and Breaking the Rules
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May 11, 2026 |
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Amadeus: Turn Intrusive Thoughts into Characters
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Dying for Sex: A Lesson in Tone
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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The TV Bible: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Write One
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Apr 06, 2026 |
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In the Blink of an Eye: Discover Your Theme And Trust Your Audience
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Mar 13, 2026 |
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No Other Choice: Plot vs. Structure (And the Secret to Making Us Care)
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Feb 27, 2026 |
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How to Divorce During the War: 10 Craft Lessons from Sundance 2026
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Feb 14, 2026 |
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Hamnet vs Shakespeare in Love
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Jan 30, 2026 |
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5 Steps To Raise The Stakes In Your Screenplay
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Jan 16, 2026 |
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Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail: A Writer’s Guide to Lasting Change
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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Eddington vs First Blood: Genre Reimagined
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Pluribus: Don’t Save the Cat
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Dec 12, 2025 |
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Steven Bagatourian: The Fire, The Math & The Voice of the Screenwriter
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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The Studio: How to Introduce Your Main Character
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Rushing: What’s Your Inciting Incident?
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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One Battle After Another: What’s your theme?
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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The Girlfriend: Game and Series Engine
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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Weapons: Should You Write a Horror Movie?
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Sep 19, 2025 |
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K-Pop Demon Hunters: 3 Ways to Elevate Your Writing
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Opus: ‘Elevated’ Horror and Allegory
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Aug 22, 2025 |
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Hypnosis for Writers: Break Through Writers Block with Jacob Krueger
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Sinners: Theme, Tone & the Sea Change
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?
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Jul 11, 2025 |
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Adolescence Episode 3: Adolescence, The Wire and Pattern Based Engine
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Jun 27, 2025 |
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Adolescence Episode 2: Dialectical Screenwriting
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Jun 13, 2025 |
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Adolescence Episode 1: Playing at the Top Of Your Intelligence
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Jun 06, 2025 |
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Thunderbolts: Theme in Action Movies
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May 30, 2025 |
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The Last of Us Season 2: Resetting Your Series Engine
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May 16, 2025 |
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Nickel Boys and Shawshank Redemption: Primary and Secondary Structure
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May 02, 2025 |
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The White Lotus: Why Season 3 Feels Different
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Anora: Using the “Sea Change” to Supercharge Structure
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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The Brutalist Part 2: Do You Need an Active Main Character?
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Mar 28, 2025 |
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The Brutalist Part 1: How to Deal with Experts & Research
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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The Apprentice: Writing The Antihero
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Feb 28, 2025 |
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Lessons from Sundance 2025 Part 2
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Lessons from Sundance 2025 Part 1
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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A Real Pain: Building Characters With Vignettes
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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A Complete Unknown: Writing The Biopic
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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How to Prepare a 3 Minute “Elevator Pitch”
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Keep Your New Years Resolutions: Do You Need More Discipline?
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Ensemble Pieces with Erin Brown Thomas
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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The Penguin: What’s The Container for Your Show or Movie?
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Nov 29, 2024 |
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How To Get The Most From Film Festivals
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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The Starless Sea: Harnessing The Power of Metaphor
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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Between the Temples – Alternative Forms of Structure
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Oct 11, 2024 |
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Strange Darling: Primary and Secondary Structure
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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The Bear Season 3 and Furiosa: The Past is Prologue
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Deadpool vs Wolverine: Action Movie Structure and Set Pieces
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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The Boys, Season 4: The Series Engine
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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Longlegs vs Hereditary: Character Wants
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Is It Time to Quit?
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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The Fall Guy Part 2: Write For Hollywood Without Selling Out
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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The Fall Guy: 3 Levels of Subtext
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Baby Reindeer: Writing the True Life Story
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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Monkey Man: Expressionism in Action Movies
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May 13, 2024 |
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Civil War vs Apocalypse Now: The War Movie
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Apr 26, 2024 |
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Steve Molton: Internal Antagonists and the 7 Forms of Conflict
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Apr 12, 2024 |
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Poor Things: Theme and Meaning
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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BEEF: Improv Tools For Screenwriters
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Lessons From Sundance 2024, Part II
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Lessons From Sundance 2024, Part I
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Past Lives: Genre and Premise
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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Dream Scenario: Passive Main Characters
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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5 Steps To Keep Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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4th Annual Pitch Festivus!
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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10 Tips For a Winning “Elevator” Pitch
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Saltburn: A Master Class in Tone
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapting a True Life Screenplay
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Writer’s Block and the Inner Censor
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Two Kinds of Writer’s Block
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Talk to Me, Part 2: World Building & Structure
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Talk to Me Part 1: The Vital Role of Your First 10 Pages
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Sep 09, 2023 |
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The Bear, Season 2: Overcoming Self Doubt As a Screenwriter
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Barbenheimer: The Art of Adaptation
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3: How to Write Flashbacks and Exposition
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Shrinking Part 2: Five Tips For Writing Better Dialogue and Exploding Cliché
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Shrinking Part 1: Is Writing Like Therapy?
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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A Man Called Otto: Character Building
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May 25, 2023 |
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Everything Everywhere All at Once PART 2: The Opening Sequence
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May 06, 2023 |
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Everything Everywhere All At Once: Evelyn’s Journey is the Screenwriter’s Journey
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Succession Season 4: The Difference Between Plot & Structure
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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The Last of Us: How To Find Variations on Your Series Engine
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The White Lotus: Engine of a Limited Series
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Triangle Of Sadness: Meaning, Structure and the Power of Location in Screenwriting
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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The Banshees Of Inisherin: Allegory, Stakes and Structure
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Avatar: The Way of Water VS. Avatar – Spectacle and Structure
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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New Year’s Resolutions For Writers That Actually Work
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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Pitch Festivus!
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Is Your Pitch Working?
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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The Shed
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Every Genre Is Like a Musical
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Pulp Fiction: A Simple Trick For Shaping Your Audience’s Expectations
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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Structure is a Puzzle
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Homeland: Getting Staffed on a TV Show with Jonathan Redding
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Sep 28, 2022 |
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The Inner Game of Screenwriting with Christian Lybrook
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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The Bear: The First Image and the Opening Sequence
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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How to Transition from Playwriting to Screenwriting
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Top Gun: Maverick – All Writing Is Political
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Winning Time: How To Adapt a True-Life Story
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Selling a TV Series: The Role of the Show Bible
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Archetypes vs. Stereotypes: A New Look At The Hero’s Journey
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May 12, 2022 |
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The Gilded Age: 5 Steps To Raise The Stakes in Your Screenplay
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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Character Traits vs Character Development: Is Your Character an Adjective or a Verb?
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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How to Sell Your Screenplay Pt. 5: Learn from Indie Producer, Noah Lang
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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How to Sell Your Screenplay Pt. 4: Getting Past the Gatekeepers
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Feb 26, 2022 |
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How to Sell Your Screenplay Pt. 3: How To Find The Right Producer
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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How to Sell Your Screenplay Pt. 2: Contests & Festival
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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How to Sell Your Screenplay Pt. 1
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Jan 15, 2022 |
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Writing Resolutions That Actually Work
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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How to Win Pitch Contests: Pitching Tips For Pitch Festivus!
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Why Every TV Series Is Like Thanksgiving
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Dune: Exposition Is Killing Your Screenplay
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Nov 13, 2021 |
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Dexter: How to Write Action In A Screenplay
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Are You Afraid of Pitching?
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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Love on the Spectrum: Understanding Subtext
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Life as a Writer: How to Build a Writing Lifestyle
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Ted Lasso: Is Your Screenplay Idea Good Enough?
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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Character Development Through Emotional Needs
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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How To Write a Logline
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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Halston: How to write a likable main character
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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WandaVision: Genre, Structure, Theme, Engine and Your Voice as a Writer
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Up vs. Soul: What Theme is Driving Your Writing?
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May 08, 2021 |
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The Mandalorian: Where Hook Meets Engine
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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One Night in Miami: Writing for Political Change
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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Cobra Kai: How to Find Your Hook
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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The Little Things: How to Write a Trick Ending
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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How To Be a Dope Ass Motherf#&ker: Writing for Hire Tips with Steven Bagatourian
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Feb 09, 2021 |
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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: The Art of Adaptation
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Jan 23, 2021 |
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The Queen’s Gambit: Writing the Limited Series
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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Keep Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions
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Jan 01, 2021 |
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Pitch Festivus: Pitching Tips from Jake & the Faculty
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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Engineering Your TV Drama Pilot w/ Ron McCants
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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Curious About Playwriting? A Conversation with Lisa D’Amour
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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The Spiritual Side of Screenwriting: A Conversation with Jenna Laurenzo
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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Ozark pt. 2: What’s Wrong with Exposition
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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Ozark pt 1: Theme, Engine, and Secondary Structure
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Comic Book Writing: An Interview with Ron Marz
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Jul 14, 2020 |
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13th: Structure, Theme and Writing For Social Change
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Jun 19, 2020 |
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Tiger King PART 2: Genre, Structure, Hook and Engine
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May 29, 2020 |
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Tiger King PART 1: What Gets You Hot?
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May 07, 2020 |
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Why Am I Procrastinating?
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Parasite vs Little Miss Sunshine
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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Parasite vs Little Miss Sunshine
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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The Irishman: What’s Your Character’s “Thing”?
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Feb 07, 2020 |
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The Power of The First Image
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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Does Your Writing Feel Boring?
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Oct 25, 2019 |
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Break Through Writer’s Block
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Oct 11, 2019 |
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Succession Season 2: Generating an Advanced Series Engine
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Sep 06, 2019 |
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: How To Pitch A Work For Hire Project
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Aug 29, 2019 |
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Produce Your Script: An Interview with Indie Producer and Filmmaker Ramfis Myrthil
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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Chernobyl: How To Write A Miniseries
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Game of Thrones Final Episode: The Case for Compression
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May 31, 2019 |
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Game of Thrones Episode 5: Three Levels of Structure
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May 20, 2019 |
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Game of Thrones Episode 4: Lessons in Revision
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May 13, 2019 |
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Game of Thrones Episode 3: The Poetry of Violence
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May 06, 2019 |
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Game of Thrones Episode 2: How To Make Them Care
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May 04, 2019 |
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Game of Thrones Episode 1: Save the Best For First
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Apr 28, 2019 |
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Game of Thrones Season 8 vs Season 1: Building A Series Engine That Lasts
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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ROMA: Turning Your Life Story Into A Screenplay
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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From GoodFellas to Breaking Bad with Stephen Molton
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Feb 26, 2019 |
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Beautiful Boy – Where Does Screenplay Structure Come From?
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Feb 12, 2019 |
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Destroyer: How to Use Flashbacks in Your Script
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Jan 10, 2019 |
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Linus Roache Interview on Mandy | Write Your Screenplay Podcast
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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BlacKkKlansman: Adapting a True Life Story
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Oct 19, 2018 |
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Succession Part 2: How To Write Subtext In Your Dialogue
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Sep 21, 2018 |
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Succession vs Arrested Development: The Series Engine
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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Hereditary: The Power of the First & Last Image
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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DEADPOOL 2: Where Tone Meets Genre in Screenwriting
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Jun 29, 2018 |
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The Hero Writes Itself: Interview with Katie Torpey
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Jun 06, 2018 |
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A QUIET PLACE Part 2: Dialogue, Action & The Theme of Your Screenplay
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May 22, 2018 |
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Isle Of Dogs Vs. Roseanne – Writing For Political Change
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Nurturing The Inner Artist
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Apr 04, 2018 |
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BoJack Horseman: Breaking The Rules Of Structure
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Mar 23, 2018 |
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The Florida Project: Structure Without Structure
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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Star Trek Beyond: Find The Emotional Core Of Your Screenplay
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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An Interview With Sebastian Stan From I, Tonya
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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Top 10 Revision Tips Podcast: Part 2
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Jan 24, 2018 |
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Top 10 Revision Tips Podcast: Part 1
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Jan 13, 2018 |
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COCO (Part 2): The Power of Vignettes
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Dec 23, 2017 |
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COCO (Part 1): The Script and the Research
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Dec 09, 2017 |
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Stranger Things 2 Podcast: PART 2 -The Structure of Two Seasons
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Nov 17, 2017 |
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Stranger Things 2 Podcast Pt.1
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Nov 10, 2017 |
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Mindhunter: Writing for David Fincher
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Oct 20, 2017 |
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Mother! Podcast
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Oct 07, 2017 |
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War for the Planet of The Apes: Interview with Writer Mark Bomback
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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Annabelle: Creation & the First Ten Pages of Your Script
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Sep 15, 2017 |
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How To Write A Web Series
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Sep 08, 2017 |
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The Big Sick: How to Adapt a True Life Story
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Aug 24, 2017 |
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Little Miss Sunshine to Dead Poets Society: Writing More than One Main Character
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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Atomic Blonde
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Aug 09, 2017 |
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Dunkirk vs. Saving Private Ryan
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Jul 29, 2017 |
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Spider-Man Homecoming Part 2
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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Spider-Man Homecoming
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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The Craft of Screenwriting
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Jul 08, 2017 |
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Plays vs Screenplays
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Jun 24, 2017 |
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Wonder Woman
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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Alien Covenant
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Jun 07, 2017 |
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Chuck, Rocky & The Art of Adaptation
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May 24, 2017 |
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Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2: A Dance Between the Head and the Heart
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May 17, 2017 |
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How To Be a Latin Lover: Turning Sadness into Salsa
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May 11, 2017 |