With studios more risk adverse to original ideas and seemingly rebooting anything under the sun, should you write a reboot?
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Writers Group Therapy
Fighting Writer's Block and Other Literary Ailments
Session #92 – Interview with Mike Blum, Chief Creative Office at Pipsqueak Animation
In today’s session, we interview Mike Blum, Chief Creative Officer at Pipsqueak Animation. Mike is a writer, director and producer who started making animated films while at Disney Feature Animation.
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Session #91 – Best Summer Ever!
In this session, we talk about strategy and options for making the most of your time as a writer over the Summer.
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Session #90 – Rachanee and Tom Go Back to School with Masterclass
Rachanee and Tom share their experiences become students in Masterclass.
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Session #89 – Writing Hard Scenes
They’re not something we, thankfully, as writers, have personally experienced. So, how do you write scenes depicting rape or abuse, murder or drugs?
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Session #88 – Homage or Ripoff?
Where’s the line between paying homage and ripping off a well known movie or TV show?
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Session #87 – Jump the Shark
It’s not everyday that a TV show makes it to four seasons, let alone seven, or 10, or even, as record holder The Simpsons currently stands, 30. In this session, we discuss what makes a show go the distance. Why doesn’t it “jump the shark”?
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Session #86 – Interview with Steven Smith, Documentarian and Author
In this week’s session we interview documentarian and author Steven Smith. Steven has produced over 200 documentary features ranging from “The Sound of Music,” to “Star Wars,” to “Aquaman.”
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Session #85 – What’s Your Writer’s Story?
Besides the stories we put into our scripts, we all have our own “writer’s story.” How does your writer’s story influence how and what you write? We discuss our stories and how they drive us in today’s session.
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Session #84 – Interview with Deck the Halls Podcast Writer Ashley Quach
In today’s session, we interview podcast writer Ashley Quach from the “Deck the Halls” podcast.
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