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Your Calling Card Script!

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Show Don't Effin Tell!

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Creativity Has No Expiration Date! (Grey List yr 2)

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Screenwriting State of the Union!

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Spielberg, Sci-fi, and Showcasing Joy! (Interview with Jordan Simon)

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Make People Feel Something!

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The Art of the Action Line!

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Turn Your Experiences into Movies That Get Made!

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Create Sellable IP from the Ground Level!

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There's No AI in ART!

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So You've Broken In?

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Writing Deep Dive: Die Hard/Hook!

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Screenwriting Deep Dive: Elf!

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Screenwriting Deep Dive: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang!

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Screenwriting Deep Dive: The Holiday!

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How to Write Your Way onto Streaming!

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How to Write THREE SEASONS of TV! (W/THESPIAN creator Marc Unger)

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The SEXPECTATIONS of Indie TV Writing!

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The Midpoint! (Our AFF episode)

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So... You STILL Want to Write a Screenplay?!

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So… You Want to Write a Screenplay?

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Writing Queer and Minority Characters in 2023!

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How to Land Act Three!

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Screenwriting is a Moving Target! (w/David Williams)

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How to Write a KILLER First Page!

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Is Your Script Ready? (OUR CENTENNIAL!)

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FINISH YOUR SCRIPT!

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Turning a $500 Short into the $6M Feature Film, 'The Shift'! (w/Brock Heasley)

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How to Make Your Script STAND OUT from The Crowd! (Adapting Script Format)

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Surviving (and Fighting) Writer's Block!

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How to Turn Your Screenplay into IP!

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How to Get a Script Read!

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Writing During a Strike! (Drama, Networking, Do's & Don'ts)

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Mentoring New Writers! (with Cindy Begel)

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What Do You Want From Us!

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The TONE of your Screenplay!

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The Legalese of Screenwriting Contracts!

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How to Write Prolifically! (w/Brock Swinson)

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The Perils in Writing Act Two!

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Writing TWISTS Into Your Script!

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Creating in the Horror-Adjacent Space!

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Does Your Writing Suck?

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Paradigm Shifts in Writing!

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Rejection!

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Writing Horror That SELLS!

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Writing Sex Scenes!

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Writing for TikTok!

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Writing for the Non-Union Market!
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Writing the Unscripted!

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From Script to SXSW!

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What Does a Screenwriter Do?

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Adapting IP for Film & TV!

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Breaking In! (And if you want to)

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Setups & Payoffs!

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Contest and Fellowship Season! (2023)

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Pitching!

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The Everyday Screenwriter!

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"Searching" for what's "Missing" with Sev Ohanian
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Adapting The Last of Us!

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Sexy Worldbuilding!

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The Grey List!

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Christmas Movies!

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Rewriting!

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Act One Musts!

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Pantsing!

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Screenwriting Therapy Session #3

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You Wrote a Script...Now What?!

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That's Not The Way It Works!

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The Microbudget Series! (Episode V)

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The Indie TV Pilot!

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Writing For Tomorrow!

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The Microbudget Series! (Episode Four)

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Outlining!

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Debunking Screenwriter Myths!

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The Microbudget Series! (Episode Three)

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A Talk About Dialog(ue)!

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Screenwriting Therapy Session #2

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The Microbudget Series! (Episode Two)

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Operating Outside of Hollywood!

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The Microbudget Series! (Episode One)

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Are Festivals Worth It?!

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How to Get a Manager!

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You Can Still Be Original! (Part One?)

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The One I Love! (Deep Dive)

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Shorts VS Features

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Sharpening Your Skills, Part Two

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Sharpening Your Skills, Part 1

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What Do Screenwriters Owe to the Culture?

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The Ballad of Billy Karate! Or, Elevengence! (if you like)

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The Drop!

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To Consult or Not to Consult?

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Being a Multi-hyphenate!

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What We Can Learn From Working With Actors!

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Our Favorite Screenplays! (And What We Can Learn From Them)

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Screenwriting Therapy Session #1

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Living with a (Screen)Writer!

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Thinking in Microbudget-verse!

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When to Work For Free!

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What You’re Putting on the Page (And Why)

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Managing Expectations!

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