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Write Your Screenplay Podcast — 236 episodes · page 1 of 3
Adolescence Episode 3: Adolescence, The Wire & Pattern Based Engine
Adolescence Part 1: Playing at the Top Of Your Intelligence
The Last of Us S2 Resetting Your Series Engine
The White Lotus: Why Season 3 Feels Different
The Brutalist Part 2: Do You Need an Active Main Character?
The Brutalist Part 1: How to Deal with Experts & Research
The Apprentice: Writing The Antihero
Lessons From Sundance 2025, Part 2
Lessons From Sundance 2025 Part 1
A Real Pain: Building Characters With Vignettes
A Complete Unknown: Writing The Biopic
How to Prepare a 3 Minute “Elevator Pitch”
Do You Need More DISCIPLINE to achieve your New Year’s Resolutions?
Ensemble Pieces
The Penguin: What's The Container for Your Show or Movie?
How To Get The Most From Film Festivals
The Starless Sea: Harnessing The Power of Metaphor
Between the Temples - Alternative Forms of Structure
Strange Darling Primary and Secondary Structure
The Bear Season 3 and Furiosa: The Past is Prologue
Deadpool vs Wolverine: Action Movie Structure and Set Pieces
The Boys, Season 4: The Series Engine
Long Legs vs Hereditary: Character Wants
Is It Time To Quit?
The Fall Guy Part 2: Write For Hollywood Without Selling Out
Monkey Man: Expressionism in Action Movies
Civil War vs Apocalypse Now: The War Movie
Steve Molton: Internal Antagonists and the 7 Forms of Conflict
Poor Things: Theme and Meaning
Lessons From Sundance 2024, Part II
Lessons From Sundance 2024, Part 1
Past Lives: Genre and Premise
Dream Scenario: Passive Main Characters
5 Steps To Keep Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions
4th Annual Pitch Festivus!
10 Tips For a Winning “Elevator” Pitch
Saltburn: A Master Class in Tone
Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapting a True Life
Writer's Block and the Inner Censor
Two Kinds of Writer’s Block
Talk to Me, Part 2: World Building & Structure
Talk to Me Part 1: The Vital Role of Your First 10 Pages
Talk to Me Part 1: The Vital Role of Your First 10 Pages
The Bear, Season 2: Overcoming Self Doubt As a Screenwriter
Barbenheimer: The Art of Adaptation
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 3: How to Write Flashbacks and Exposition
Shrinking Part 2: Five Tips For Writing Better Dialogue and Exploding Cliché
Shrinking Part 1: Is Writing Like Therapy?
A Man Called Otto: Character Building
Everything Everywhere All at Once PART 2: The Opening Sequence
Everything Everywhere All At Once: Evelyn’s Journey is the Screenwriter’s Journey
Succession Season 4: The Difference Between Plot & Structure
The Last of Us: How To Find Variations on Your Series Engine
The White Lotus: Engine of a Limited Series
Triangle Of Sadness: Meaning, Structure and the Power of Location in Screenwriting
The Banshees Of Inisherin: Allegory, Stakes and Structure
Avatar: The Way of Water VS. Avatar - Spectacle and Structure
New Year’s Resolutions For Writers That Actually Work
Pitch Festivus!
Is Your Pitch Working
The Shed
Every Genre Is A Musical
Pulp Fiction: A Simple Trick For Shaping Your Audience’s Expectations
Structure is a Puzzle
Homeland: Getting Staffed on a TV Show with Jonathan Redding
The Inner Game of Screenwriting with Christian Lybrook
The Bear: The First Image and the Opening Sequence
How to Transition from Playwriting to Screenwriting
Top Gun: Maverick - All Writing Is Political
Winning Time: How To Adapt a True-Life Story
Selling a TV Series: The Role of the Show Bible
Archetypes vs. Stereotypes: A New Look At The Hero’s Journey
The Gilded Age: 5 Steps To Raise The Stakes in Your Screenplay
Character Traits vs Character Development: Is Your Character an Adjective or a Verb?
How to Sell Your Screenplay Pt. 5: Learn from Indie Producer, Noah Lang
How to Sell Your Screenplay Pt. 4: Getting Past the Gatekeepers
How to Sell Your Screenplay Pt. 3: How To Find The Right Producer
How to Sell a Screenplay Pt. 2 - Contests & Festivals
How to Sell Your Screenplay
Writing Resolutions That Actually Work
How to Win Pitch Contests: Pitching Tips For Pitch Festivus!
Why Every TV Series Is Like Thanksgiving
Dune: Exposition Is Killing Your Screenplay
Dexter: How to Write Action In A Screenplay
Are You Afraid of Pitching?
Love on the Spectrum: Understanding Subtext
Life as a Writer: How to Build a Writing Lifestyle
Ted Lasso: Is Your Screenplay Idea Good Enough?
Character Development Through Emotional Needs
How To Write A Logline
Halston: How To Write a Likable Main Character
WandaVision: Genre, Structure, Theme, Engine and Your Voice as a Writer
UP vs. SOUL: What Theme is Driving Your Writing?
The Mandalorian: Where Hook Meets Engine
One Night in Miami: Writing for Political Change
Cobra Kai: How to Find Your Hook
The Little Things: How to Write a Trick Ending
How to Be a Dope Ass Motherf#&ker: Writing for Hire Tips with Steven Bagatourian
The Queen's Gambit: Writing the Limited Series
Keep Your New Year's Writing Resolutions