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Act Two Podcast — 297 episodes
Go Forth and Write Your Spec
The Agent Series with Mark Hartogsohn: What is a Lit Agent and How to Get One? (REPOST)
Rewriting for Yourself vs. Rewriting as a Professional Writer
The Art of the Cheer Moment | How to Write Scenes That Excite Audiences
Good Writing Isn't Enough | The "Other" Skills Every Screenwriter Needs to Succeed
Don't Send That Script Yet: Rewrites, Feedback & Knowing When Your Screenplay is Ready
Is the Screenwriting Life Worth It? Yes - Here's Why (Part 2)
Is the Screenwriting Life Worth It? The Ugly Truth (Part 1 of 2)
We Read Our Old Script Coverage (and It's Brutal) | 2025 Oscar Nominee Reactions
What TV Execs Wish You Knew: Pitching, Development & Breaking In With Legendary's Anna Halligan
Screenwriting Q&A: Free Work, Producer Conflicts & February: Are You Excited?
Inside Studio Coverage: How Story Analysts Evaluate Scripts at Major Studios
Selling Out Isn't Wrong -- It's a Strategy
Free Work as Screenwriters: How to Decide, Set Boundaries, and Protect Yourself
Why You? - The Question Every Screenwriter Needs to Know How to Answer
How Post-Production Can Make You a Better Writer: Insights from an Editor
Interview with Scott Glassgold: Selling Your Short Story (REPOST)
How to Actually Hit Your 2026 Screenwriting Goals
Wins, Misses and Takeaways: Our 2025 Goal Wrap-Up
How to Plan Your Screenwriting Year for Success: A Month-by-Month Guide
The Writing Behind Tomb Raider: the Legend of Lara Croft Season 2
5 Tips on Telling a Compelling Story
Living Outside LA, Pitching Update, Mighty Nein - Plus: Are You Excited?
How to Get Unstuck in Your Writing: Screenwriting Tips that Actually Work
Writing THE MIGHTY NEIN: Interview with Showrunner Tasha Huo
Holiday Gifts -- What to get Reps and Producers (REPOST)
Staying Relevant: How to Have a Long Career as a Screenwriter
How to Write Great Villains | Halloween Special for Screenwriters
Ready or Not? How You Know Your Script is Ready
Networking Dos and Don’ts & Are You Excited: October 2025 Edition
Write Better Dialogue: Tasha Huo's Secret Hack
How do you write for animation? Interview with Francisco Angones (THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA, DUCK TALES)
Which Screenwriter Personality Are You?
Are You Excited?: September 2025 Edition + TWIW
Writing Action and Staying Relevant with Derek Kolstad (JOHN WICK, NOBODY)
How Agents Work for Screenwriters: David Boxerbaum (Partner, Verve)
How to Multitask as a Screenwriter: Balancing Multiple Projects
Are Pro Screenwriters Just Like Pro Athletes?
Writing RED SONJA: From Script to Screen with Tasha Huo
Is San Diego Comic-Con good for Screenwriters? + Are You Excited?: August Edition
Are You Excited?: July 2025 Edition
Social Media in your Screenwriting Career: Interview w/ Nic Curcio and Kristen Tepper
Where to Spend Time: IP or Spec?
MAILBAG: Ready to Send Your Script? Writer’s Groups, Pitching & More
Animated to Live Action Adaptation: LILO & STITCH and HTTYD (Part 2)
Animated to Live Action Adaptation: LILO & STITCH and HTTYD (Part 1)
When Life Happens, How to Keep Writing
RE-RELEASE: How to Stay in Screenwriting Shape
Are You Excited? JUNE 2025 EDITION
Top Tips for Aspiring Screenwriters
A Writer's Tools: The Oversized Sketchpad
8 Famous Improv Moments Writers Can Learn From
Know Your Story
A Screenwriter's Self-Talk Cycle
Writing for the Audience (and not sell out)
Framing Devices: What They Are and When They Work
How to Advocate for Yourself
How to Get Repped (REPOST)
Starting Your Story Through Location
A Physical Therapist on Writers' Pains with Melody Garcia
Should You Outline?
Why Now? - What It Means, How to Answer It
The Oscars 2025 Episode! W/ Dave Levinson
MAILBAG: Pilots, Day Jobs, Meetings, and More!
The Screenwriter’s Brand: Find Your Lane
One Room. Lots of Drama. Writing Contained Movies w/ Dave Levinson
Writing To "Cheer Moments"
Writing in a Crisis
Los Angeles Fire Wellness Check-In
2025 Goals (Part 2)
2025 Goals (Part 1)
Nolan Corn
The Holiday Edition: Blacklist Winners, Holiday Gifts, Staying Productive
Christmas Genre Mashups: Why They Work
Is a Work/Life Balance possible as a Screenwriter?
How to Turn Meetings into Opportunities
The Training Montage
Mailbag: Call to Action vs. Inciting Incident, Adapting IP, and more!
Chekhov's Gun in Screenwriting
The Best Horror Sequels!
Horror Rules & Mystery w/ Joe Russo and Dave Levinson
Script Changes, Tomb Raider, and Q&A Galore
TOMB RAIDER Q&A with Showrunner Tasha Huo
Get Your Tomb Raider Questions & 8 Sequence Story Structure (Repost)
No Writing Path Is The Same
Being Flexible without Compromising,
Hate Writing, or Yourself? How to Stay Motivated at a Low Point
The TV Writer's Room: Writing a Script
Interview with Joe Russo: From Writing to Release of the ensemble horror movie THE INHERITANCE
(Don't) Write What You Know
Does your script have a Central Question?
San Diego Comic-Con for Writers and the Summer Blockbuster
RE-RELEASE: Breaking Down BRAVE with Producer & Manager, Michele Wolkoff
Mailbag: How to Write Professional Dialogue, How to Write Different Genres, and more!
TWIW - Being an Authentic Writer, Are Managers Staying Away from New Clients?, Beverly Hills Cop, and More!
Are you dedicated to Screenwriting? Let's find out.
The Keys to a Successful (and long) Screenwriting Career
Have you hit your goals? -- 2024 Mid-Year Goals Check-In
You Just Got Notes: What Now?
Interview with Script Pipeline’s Matt Misetich
Career post AIR: Interview with Alex Convery
Fan Fiction as a Road to Screenwriting: Interview with Keely MacDonald (AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER)
The Act Two Mixer, and How to Have a Successful Writer's Group
TWIW & the Act Two Mixer Announcement
Screenwriting Lingo
Pitching is Terrible: The Series (Part 8 - Things Execs Say)
Internal Dialogue in Screenwriting - Do or Don't?
What to Write Next?
TWIW: When to Take the Note, the Pitching Tiers and More!
Where Do Ideas Come From?
Networking and Making Connections
When To Take The Note
Secret to the Spec Sale: Interview with Daniel Kunka (Retake)
The 2024 Oscars Episode
Journey from Pitch to (Not) Getting the Job
Fireside Chat: Manager-Writer Conflict and the Problem of the Stubborn Writer
How to Cut Pages
Taking an Idea to Outline
Getting Comfortable with Feeling Uncomfortable
How to Combat (and Defeat) Imposter Syndrome
How to Nail a General or Rep Meeting
New Year. New Goals. 2024!
’Tis the Season: Why Christmas Movies Work
Filmmaking Tips from James Mangold (LOGAN)
TWIW: Party Recap, When a Short Story Has No Hook, and How to Make Your General Work for You
Finding Clarity of Concept in Your Pilot
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: LA Event & Patreon Launch
Breaking Down Pixar’s BRAVE with Producer & Manager, Michele Wolkoff
TWIW: Why Relationships Matter, When to Restructure, How to Think Outside the Box
Ways to Tackle a 2nd Draft
Building Dread: Top 5 Horror Films w/ Special Guest Dave Levinson
How to Get Repped
Where to Find Inspiration
The Importance of Self-Care
The Essential Steps to Writing a Pilot Outline
Finding Humanity in Your Villain
Rethinking How to Adapt IP
5 Stages of Spec Writing
Breakdown of Act One: SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
How to Be a Writer on Set
Interview with Jeff Howard (HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, MIDNIGHT MASS)
Screenwriting Tips from INDIANA JONES
Interview with Alyssa Alvarado: AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL
Summer Blockbusters: Midpoint Check-In
Interview with Dan Kunka: ARBITRATION
J.J. Abrams’s Mystery Box
FLASH and INDIANA JONES
Summer 2023 Blockbusters!
TWIW: Spiderverse, ”Burn It Down” and AI
Tips for Writing a Short Film
What is Arbitration?
WGA Strike Vibes on the Picket
How to Stay in Screenwriting Shape
How Screenwriters Get Paid
WGA Strike (Week 1)
TWIW: Mario, 3 Writer Personalities, and LA Writer Meet-Ups
Industry Terms: Part II
Industry Terms (Part I)
How to Have a Successful Writer’s Group
How to Write a Heist
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) and Screenwriting
The Hustle
TWIW: Selling in Animation, Spec Sales, and Learning Writing from Actors
Nicole Ramberg Part II: Her Path To The Black List
Interview with Paul Bae: Screenwriter to Podcaster to Screenwriter
TWIW: Targeted Note-Giving and What a Screenwriting Career Actually Looks Like
Pacing in an Action Sequence
10 Signs of a Great Screenplay
Screenwriting Skills that ARE NOT Writing
Finding & Securing IP: Interview with Steve Desmond (KNOCK AT THE CABIN)
TWIW: Keep the Momentum Going
New Year. New Goals.
Your IP Responsibilities
Spirited and Writing the Christmas Movie
Wrapping up for the Holidays as a Screenwriter
A Dialogue on Dialogue
Securing IP, General Meetings, and Pitching! (Mailbag)
Crafting a Likable Protagonist
TWIW: Stealing from other Movies, and Getting Unstuck in Revisions
TWIW: What is Hip-Pocketing and What Makes a Good Showrunner?
So You’re Being Rewritten...
A conversation with the Writer of King Richard: Zach Baylin
The Romance Episode
Pitching is Terrible: The Series (Part 7 - Idea to Pitch)
Fireside Chat: How to Break into the Industry
8 Sequence Story Structure
This Week in Writing
This Week in Writing
Self-Advocating: How and Why?
The Art of Adaptation: Interview w/ Christopher Yost (THOR: RAGNAROK, COWBOY BEPOP)
Unhealthy Writer Thoughts
Meet Cutes: Pride & Prejudice to Mr. & Mrs. Smith
TWIW: Imposter Syndrome, Pitching with Intention and Taking Your Shot
What is Showrunning?: Interview with BEL-AIR Co-Showrunner, Rasheed Newson
Taika Waititi’s 10 Screenwriting Tips
First Day in a Writers Room
Live Mock Notes Session
This Week in Writing
Transitioning from Writer to Showrunner & Director: Interview w/ Steven DeKnight
What’s the Theme? -- Top Gun: Maverick
Writing With A Partner: Ben Lustig & Jake Thornton
Taking an Idea to Script
5 Must-Haves for Writing Action Sequences
Being a Blacklist Writer: Q&A with Alex Convery
The Work/Life Balance with David H. Steinberg
4 Common Notes and How to Revise Them
How to Start an Adaptation
Tony Gilroy’s 7 Steps to Writing an Original
Best Pixar Movies and TWIW
How We Create Characters
We Should Talk About Nepotism...
When to Move On...
Having Etiquette As A Screenwriter...
Pitching Is Terrible: The Series (Part 6 -- How to Prep like Steve Jobs)
Script Club: ENDING THINGS by Kevin Sullivan
The Manager Life: Interview w/ John Zaozirny of Bellevue Prods.
How to Set the Tone in Meetings
How to Revise Your Script
Heroes & Villains: The Pirate, the Crooked Cop, the Wicked Step-Mother, and the Adventurer
Pitching Is Terrible: The Series (Part 5 -- The Rewrite Pitch)
MacGuffins: To Use Or Not To Use?
Breaking Into The Industry: Q&A With Mickey Fisher
New Year, New Writing Goals
Taking A Break Over The Break?
The Setup: Home Alone vs. Home Sweet Home Alone
The Breakdown: DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE (Better than the OG?)
Don‘t Please Your Producer (from a Producer)
This Week in Writing
Holiday Gifts -- What to get Reps and Producers
The Breakdown: Writing Action Setpieces
How to Handle Submissions
Screenwriting Twitter Topics
The Pitch: Film to TV
Finding Your Next Idea
When to Work for Free?
Tasha Interviews Josh: AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL
Josh Interviews Tasha: SHOWRUNNING
Fireside Chat
Writer‘s Tool Chest: The Notecard
What A Good Relationship With Your Reps Looks Like
This Week in Writing
Daily Life of a TV Staff Writer with Monty Bennett
Anatomy of an Action Setpiece
The Note Giver's 10 Commandments
To Study Film, or Not? with Special Guest: James Stoteraux
Staying Proactive And Being An Advocate For Yourself.
The Open Writing Assignment (OWA): Devil or Deliverer?
This Week in Writing
How to Stay Organized
This Week in Writing
The Art of Adaptation with Special Guest: Evan Spiliotopoulos
Film Writing vs. TV Writing with Special Guest David Levinson
Fireside Chat: This Is Us
Pitching Is Terrible: The Series (Part 4 -- The Ten Minutes After You Pitch)
The Note Taker's 10 Commandments
WHY MOVIES WORK: Nobody, Mortal Kombat and The Mitchells vs. the Machines
Development Hell
Ghostwriting -- The Best Kept Secret in Screenwriting
The Walt Disney Television Writing Program: Interview with 2020 alums, Adrian Viña & Allyson Philobos
Secret to the Spec Sale: Interview with Daniel Kunka
Fireside Chat
How to Have a "Voice"
Snyder Cut & Mythology
ANNOUNCING: Act Two Mentorship Program with Coverfly (with special guest, Tom Dever, Head of Writer Success at Coverfly)
The Breakdown: TED LASSO Pilot -- Character Intros
Documents Writers Write (that aren't the script)
Process: Getting the Job - Tomb Raider and Red Sonja
Fireside Chat
The Art of Act One: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Three Act Structure
Screenwriting Life: A New Hope
WGA 101: Interview with Ben Shiffrin, WGA Captain
Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling
Pitching is Terrible: The Series (Part 3 -- Visuals in a Pitch)
Get Competitive: Interview w/ bRock Newell, 2018 Screencraft Fellowship Winner
New Year's Resolutions: How to Make (Writing) Goals
The Breakdown: LETHAL WEAPON (Demystifying a Legend)
The Breakdown: Back to the Future (Act 3 - Obstacles & Pay-Offs)
The Breakdown: BACK TO THE FUTURE (Act Two - The Art of Cause & Effect)
First Script is Done. Now what?
The Breakdown: BACK TO THE FUTURE (Act One)
Get Competitive: Guest Interview w/ Nicole Ramberg, 2020 Screencraft Competition Winner
A Million Ways: Guest Interview w/ Screenwriter Corey Deshon
How to Have a Good Relationship with Your Reps
Pitching is Terrible: The Series (Part 2 -- Formatting Your Pitch)
Pitching is Terrible: The Series (Part 1 -- What, How and Why do you Pitch?)
The Confident Writer, an Oxymoron
Working Hard or Hardly Working? -- A Day in the Life of a Screenwriter
A Screenwriter Walks into a Festival...
General Meetings: The Couch & Water Tour
The Job: TV Staff Writing with Nneka Gerstle
HARD KILL: Script to Screen with Joe Russo
The Art of the Spec Script
Welcome Home: Blank Page to Red Carpet with David Levinson
We're Back! Post-Quarantine for Screenwriters
Getting Repped -- All the Ways to Get a Manager or Agent
Introducing the ACT TWO Podcast