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ON THE WRITERS BLOCK
by Megan Maher
Every writer starts somewhere. In a notebook. A blank page. A room nobody's watching. Hell, maybe even listening to a podcast! On The Writers Block is a room, opened just for you. We sit down with the writers shaping television and film, the ones you know and the ones you should, and we talk about the real work. Not the highlight reel. The rewrites. The rejection. The rooms that didn't want them until they did. No gatekeeping. No pretending the path was clean. Just the truth about what it takes to build a career in this industry, one page at a time. This is for the writer still figuring it out. And the one who's been in the room for twenty years. Because being On The Writers Block isn't the end of the story. It's where it starts.
Episodes
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On The Writers Block - Niceole Levy
Niceole Levy paid her way through USC working graveyard shifts as a police dispatcher. Most recently a co-executive producer on NBC’s Found, she’s also written on S.W.A.T., The Recruit, and Cloak & Dagger, and co-wrote the feature The Banker. The author of The Writers’ Room Survival Guide joins...
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On The Writers Block - Paul Guyot
Paul Guyot spent nearly a decade as a Hollywood stand-in before landing his first writing job. He’s since written and produced over 200 hours of television, from Felicity and Judging Amy to Leverage, took over as showrunner on The Librarians, and co-wrote Geostorm. He joins Megan to talk about…
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On The Writers Block - Laura Moran
Laura Moran has known she wanted to write since the third grade, when she turned in a twenty-five-page book report on Abraham Lincoln written in crayon. Since then she’s written on How I Met Your Mother, The Neighborhood, Harley Quinn, and Going Dutch, and sold shows to Warner Bros. and CBS. She...
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On The Writers Block - Caroline Renard
Caroline Renard went from pre-law at FSU to story editor on Disney+’s Secrets of Sulphur Springs, then stepped behind the camera. Her directorial debut, Unbraided, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and won Best Comedic Short at the 2024 Micheaux Film Festival. The...
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On The Writers Block - Paynudeh Allen
Paynudeh Allen got her start in the mailroom. From there, the Liberian-American comedy writer from Maryland worked her way through rooms like She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Surfside Girls, wrote a freelance episode of Be@rbrick, and landed a staff writer spot at Nickelodeon. She joins Megan to…
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On The Writers Block - Rae Benjamin
Rae Benjamin, writer on Netflix’s The Witcher and co-writer and co-executive producer of The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, pulls up a chair. She opens up about her leap from graphic design to screenwriting, breaking story in a beloved fantasy world, and what it takes to thrive in a writers’ room....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Every writer starts somewhere. In a notebook. A blank page. A room nobody's watching. Hell, maybe even listening to a podcast!
On The Writers Block is a room, opened just for you.
We sit down with the writers shaping television and film, the ones you know and the ones you should, and we talk about the real work. Not the highlight reel. The rewrites. The rejection. The rooms that didn't want them until they did.
No gatekeeping. No pretending the path was clean. Just the truth about what it takes to build a career in this industry, one page at a time.
This is for the writer still figuring it out. And the one who's been in the room for twenty years. Because being On The Writers Block isn't the end of the story. It's where it starts.
HOSTED BY
Megan Maher
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Every writer starts somewhere. In a notebook. A blank page. A room nobody's watching. Hell, maybe even listening to a podcast! On The Writers Block is a room, opened just for you. We sit down with the writers shaping television and film, the ones you know and the ones you should, and we talk about...
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ON THE WRITERS BLOCK is created and hosted by Megan Maher.
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