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Write Your Screenplay Podcast — 205 episodes
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Ending Explained: How Odysseus Broke the World
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Which God are you serving? Pt 1
John J. Strauss: How to Get Staffed in a TV Writers’ Room
Kat Khavari: Character, Voice, Creative Audacity
Beef Season 2: Metaphor, Engine, and Breaking the Rules
Amadeus: Turn Intrusive Thoughts into Characters
Dying for Sex: A Lesson in Tone
The TV Bible: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Write One
In the Blink of an Eye: Discover Your Theme And Trust Your Audience
No Other Choice: Plot vs. Structure (And the Secret to Making Us Care)
How to Divorce During the War: 10 Craft Lessons from Sundance 2026
Hamnet vs Shakespeare in Love
5 Steps To Raise The Stakes In Your Screenplay
Why New Year’s Resolutions Fail: A Writer’s Guide to Lasting Change
Eddington vs First Blood: Genre Reimagined
Pluribus: Don’t Save the Cat
Steven Bagatourian: The Fire, The Math & The Voice of the Screenwriter
The Studio: How to Introduce Your Main Character
Rushing: What’s Your Inciting Incident?
One Battle After Another: What’s your theme?
The Girlfriend: Game and Series Engine
Weapons: Should You Write a Horror Movie?
K-Pop Demon Hunters: 3 Ways to Elevate Your Writing
Opus: ‘Elevated’ Horror and Allegory
Hypnosis for Writers: Break Through Writers Block with Jacob Krueger
Sinners: Theme, Tone & the Sea Change
Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?
Adolescence Episode 3: Adolescence, The Wire and Pattern Based Engine
Adolescence Episode 2: Dialectical Screenwriting
Adolescence Episode 1: Playing at the Top Of Your Intelligence
Thunderbolts: Theme in Action Movies
The Last of Us Season 2: Resetting Your Series Engine
Nickel Boys and Shawshank Redemption: Primary and Secondary Structure
The White Lotus: Why Season 3 Feels Different
Anora: Using the “Sea Change” to Supercharge Structure
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”
Keep Your New Years Resolutions: Do You Need More Discipline?
Ensemble Pieces with Erin Brown Thomas
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
Longlegs vs Hereditary: Character Wants
Is It Time to Quit?
The Fall Guy Part 2: Write For Hollywood Without Selling Out
The Fall Guy: 3 Levels of Subtext
Baby Reindeer: Writing the True Life Story
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
BEEF: Improv Tools For Screenwriters
Lessons From Sundance 2024, Part II
Lessons From Sundance 2024, Part I
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 Screenplay
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
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 Like 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 Your Screenplay Pt. 2: Contests & Festival
How to Sell Your Screenplay Pt. 1
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
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: The Art of Adaptation
The Queen’s Gambit: Writing the Limited Series
Keep Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions
Pitch Festivus: Pitching Tips from Jake & the Faculty
Engineering Your TV Drama Pilot w/ Ron McCants
Curious About Playwriting? A Conversation with Lisa D’Amour
The Spiritual Side of Screenwriting: A Conversation with Jenna Laurenzo
Ozark pt. 2: What’s Wrong with Exposition
Ozark pt 1: Theme, Engine, and Secondary Structure
Comic Book Writing: An Interview with Ron Marz
13th: Structure, Theme and Writing For Social Change
Tiger King PART 2: Genre, Structure, Hook and Engine
Tiger King PART 1: What Gets You Hot?
Why Am I Procrastinating?
Parasite vs Little Miss Sunshine
Parasite vs Little Miss Sunshine
The Irishman: What’s Your Character’s “Thing”?
The Power of The First Image
Does Your Writing Feel Boring?
Break Through Writer’s Block
Succession Season 2: Generating an Advanced Series Engine
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: How To Pitch A Work For Hire Project
Produce Your Script: An Interview with Indie Producer and Filmmaker Ramfis Myrthil
Chernobyl: How To Write A Miniseries
Game of Thrones Final Episode: The Case for Compression
Game of Thrones Episode 5: Three Levels of Structure
Game of Thrones Episode 4: Lessons in Revision
Game of Thrones Episode 3: The Poetry of Violence
Game of Thrones Episode 2: How To Make Them Care
Game of Thrones Episode 1: Save the Best For First
Game of Thrones Season 8 vs Season 1: Building A Series Engine That Lasts
ROMA: Turning Your Life Story Into A Screenplay
From GoodFellas to Breaking Bad with Stephen Molton
Beautiful Boy – Where Does Screenplay Structure Come From?
Destroyer: How to Use Flashbacks in Your Script
Linus Roache Interview on Mandy | Write Your Screenplay Podcast
BlacKkKlansman: Adapting a True Life Story
Succession Part 2: How To Write Subtext In Your Dialogue
Succession vs Arrested Development: The Series Engine
Hereditary: The Power of the First & Last Image
DEADPOOL 2: Where Tone Meets Genre in Screenwriting
The Hero Writes Itself: Interview with Katie Torpey
A QUIET PLACE Part 2: Dialogue, Action & The Theme of Your Screenplay
Isle Of Dogs Vs. Roseanne – Writing For Political Change
Nurturing The Inner Artist
BoJack Horseman: Breaking The Rules Of Structure
The Florida Project: Structure Without Structure
Star Trek Beyond: Find The Emotional Core Of Your Screenplay
An Interview With Sebastian Stan From I, Tonya
Top 10 Revision Tips Podcast: Part 2
Top 10 Revision Tips Podcast: Part 1
COCO (Part 2): The Power of Vignettes
COCO (Part 1): The Script and the Research
Stranger Things 2 Podcast: PART 2 -The Structure of Two Seasons
Stranger Things 2 Podcast Pt.1
Mindhunter: Writing for David Fincher
Mother! Podcast
War for the Planet of The Apes: Interview with Writer Mark Bomback
Annabelle: Creation & the First Ten Pages of Your Script
How To Write A Web Series
The Big Sick: How to Adapt a True Life Story
Little Miss Sunshine to Dead Poets Society: Writing More than One Main Character
Atomic Blonde
Dunkirk vs. Saving Private Ryan
Spider-Man Homecoming Part 2
Spider-Man Homecoming
The Craft of Screenwriting
Plays vs Screenplays
Wonder Woman
Alien Covenant
Chuck, Rocky & The Art of Adaptation
Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2: A Dance Between the Head and the Heart
How To Be a Latin Lover: Turning Sadness into Salsa
Colossal: Externalizing the Internal