“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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Writers Group Therapy Podcasts
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 #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 #163 – Franchise Fatigue Fatigue
We’re tired of being tired of Franchise Fatigue, but it’s a serious issue. There is a steep downward curve in payback on subsequent entries and spin-offs/prequels etc., which is fueling a feedback circle of layoffs and cancellations in Hollywood. Why is this happening and what does it mean for writers? Listen as we try to find the answers. SHOW NOTES: None this episode
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Session #162 – Who Dunt Dunt DUNNit? with Thomas Tulak and Adam Pineless
Writer/Director Thomas Tulak, and Assistant Director/Composer Adam Pineless talk about “Who Dunt Dunt DUNNit?” their a hyper-meta, award-winning comedy film. It’s a hilarious murder mystery, wrapped in a murder mystery wrapped in a movie production about a murder mystery. SHOW NOTES:
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Session #161 – Is Hollywood Imploding?
It’s been a rough few weeks across Hollywood at studios such as Warner Brothers, Cartoon Network, G4 and others. From layoffs to total shutdowns, we take a look at recent turmoil and how it might affect writers. SHOW NOTES:
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Session #160 – “Addicted In Film” with Ted Perkins former studio exec, producer and screenwriter
For some us, our biggest addictions are caffeine and endlessly scrolling TikTok videos, so, how do we write characters with more serious addictions? We talk to Ted Perkins, a former Warner Brothers and Universal studio executive, producer, screenwriter and now author who tackles the topic in his new book Addicted In Film, for which Ted watched 100 movies in 100 days about addiction.
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Session #159 – Matthew Gentile, writer/director of “American Murderer”
This session, we talk with writer/director Matthew Gentile about American Murderer, his new true crime thriller about FBI fugitive Jason Derek Brown.
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