There are no new ideas, it’s been said. So how do you come up with original stories? One way, study the prototypes for your story ideas.
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Session #38 – Do you need to be in Los Angeles?
“You have to go to LA,” is what “they” say if you want to get into the screenwriting business. But do you? We debate in session #38.
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Session #35 – Accountability
How do you keep on track? Achieve your goals? Meet your deadlines? What motivates you? In this session of Writers Group Therapy we talk about Accountability.
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Session #34 – Annihilation – A Writers’ Discussion
It’s the end of the world! Complimenting last week’s session on adaptaions, in this week’s session we discuss the recent hit sci-fi film “Annihilation.” SPOILER ALERT – we discuss major plot points and the ending.
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Session #33 – Adaptation – From Book to Screen
In session #33, we discuss how adaptations get it right and wrong, examples of each and or our favorites, and whether it is better to read the book before or after watching an adaptation.
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Session #30 – Serialized vs. Procedural
Is your script serialized or procedural? What? It’s a sitcom! Since when are sitcom’s categorized as either of those? We debate how you categorize your work, whatever genre, in this week’s session of Writers Group Therapy.
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Session #28 – Interview with Dan O’Shannon
In a very special session of Writers Group Therapy, we interview veteran comedy writer and executive producer Dan O’Shannon. Having written for some of the most iconic and successful comedies in TV history (Modern Family, Cheers, Newhart, Fraiser, and many more), we are excited to learn from Dan’s experience in Hollywood and the writers’ room.
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Session 22 – Focusing On One Project vs. Multiple Projects
Do you focus all your time and effort into crafting the perfect script for your passion project? Or do you write anything and everything until your eyeballs bleed? We discuss where we fall on the continuum of working on one project to multiple projects in this week’s session of Writers Group Therapy.
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Session #21 – Grammar
They’res nuthing woors then ungood gramer! Of course you want people to be enthralled by your characters and story, and not distracted by your poor punctuation, but writing with proper grammar also can make a difference in how an actor reads a line and how it impacts the other characters in the scene. We discuss the myriad of reasons to check and double-check your work for proper grammar.
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