We’re back from our Summer break, starting off our 7th year of Writers Group Therapy, but the WGA, and now SAG-AFTRA, are still on strike. We catch up on all the latest and look towards a fall with no premieres.
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Session #173 – Kingdom Legacy Book #3, Writers Strike & Year 6 Wrap Up
We wrap up the 6th year of Writers Group Therapy (Can you believe it’s been 6 YEARS!) with a discussion of Rachanee’s recently published third novel in the Kingdom Legacy Series: “Heir of Memory & Shadow,” a look at the first week of the writers strike, and our summer plans.
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Session #172 – Script Doctoring with Shannon Massey Smith
Does your script need some TLC? Maybe a script doctor can help. Shannon Massey Smith shares the ins and outs of being, and working with, a script doctor.
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Session #171 – “Blindspotting” Showrunner Rafael Casal
“Blindspotting” creator/writer/producer/director/actor Rafael Casal (Miles) talks about how touring with his music and poetry transformed into telling stories about his community in Oakland, CA in the award-winning Starz series.
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Session #170 – Tidbits from Stephen King’s “On Writing”
This session, we discuss what Tom learned from and about Stephen King from his book “On Writing” including the tools and techniques King uses and recommends as well as revealing details about his journey to becoming a published author.
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Session #169 – Screenwriting with Tyler Mowery from Top Development
Our guest this session is screenwriter, YouTuber, and podcaster Tyler Mowery who recently rebranded his YouTube Channel with 266,000 subscribers as “Top Development.” We talk about Tyler’s journey, process and script consultant services. SHOW NOTES:
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Session #168 – WGA Priorities
In this session we discuss the priorities discuss by the WGA’s negotiating committee as reported in The Hollywood Reporter. SHOW NOTES:
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Session 167 – Promoting Your Writing
In this session, we discuss promoting your written works and compare promoting books, scripts, shorts and web series. SHOW NOTES:
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Session #166 – CreAItors
Our future AI overlords have made significant progress since our last episode about AI (Session #134 – Artificial Intelligence in Hollywood). We talk Buzzfeed replacing writers with chatbots, DnD OGL and AI dungeon masters, ChatGPT and its screenwriting skills and more. SHOW NOTES:
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Session #164 – Hello, 2023!
In this session, we talk our writing goals for 2023, the latest news including the WGA prepping for contract negotiations, Twitch payout cuts, COVID in Hollywood, Moviepass’ resurrection, and more. SHOW NOTES:
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