Script Nerds

Finally, our Season 1 finale! A fully produced table read with amazing actors bringing out script to life. Check it out, and be sure to subscribe so you're ready for Season 2 of our podcast. Coming soon!To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!CREDITS:WRITERSAdam Pineless (Narrator)Shannon Selis (Customer)CAST:August – Kelsey DoughertyInstagramGianina – Natasha ChandelInstagramLorenzo – Phillip BowenInstagramDerek – Marco InfanteInstagramOlivia – Adelaide GaultInstagramJohnny – Thomas TulakInstagramVeronica – Minerva ZapataHazy James – James JamesSusanna – Susanna BernsChef Justin – Adam-Michael SavageInstagram

So we're here! Just before the table read with actors! This episode isn't a "best of" snippets episode, this is a new discussion in which Adam and Shannon look back on moments and discuss the major changes we had to make, the things we cut, and the missed opportunities we may get to use another day (on another episode).Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

Okay, so we have a pretty good script... but it needs to be better. It needs to be great to make the most of every moment on screen. How do we punch-up?Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

Following up with our previous episode, Shannon and Adam discuss the changes they can/should make based on their notes from screenwriter, Natasha Chandel!Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

On this episode, we get notes on our script from comedian and screenwriter, Natasha Chandel!Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSNatasha ChandelInstagramBlueSkyThreadsOnlyFansKINDA DATING PODCAST (Produced by Natasha Chandel and Adam Pineless.)“Kinda Dating” podcast on Spotify"Kinda Dating” on Apple PodcastsScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

Let's talk about subsequent drafts...Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

This is where our podcast gets real. I mean, we've been real the whole time, but let's discuss where the podcast show format caused us to drop the ball (on our outline), and what we need to do to overhaul the script so it does a better job.Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

In this episode we discuss a gap in our recording and the benefit of coming back to a script at a later time with fresh eyes.Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

In this episode we discuss implimenting changes and tightening up what we have written in the 2nd Revision.Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

In this episode we talk about the most feared thing in writing: the Page One Rewrite. Hopefully your scripts don't need it, but it happens to many people when they start writing without the story fully-formed. Come on the journey with us as we discuss some big changes to the script.First revisions are the first place where writers get to keep the good, and say, "Out with the bad." It's hard to see your own issues, but we have to work through it like all writers.Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

In this episode we talk about "K*lling Your Babies." (Also called "K*lling Your Darlings.") Why such a violent term exists? Because it's a hard thing to do.Join us as we violently cut through the BS we created for the greater good of the project. It's hard to k*ll something you love.Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

In this episode we take a look at Act 3 of our new pilot. We discuss progressing your story through Act 3, and just how much resolution you need.Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

In this episode we take a look at Act 2 of our new pilot. We discuss progressing your story through Act 2 as things escalate into Act 3.Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

In this episode we take a look at Act 1 of our new pilot. We discuss the challenges of creating an original pilot, and how Act 1 not only has to set up the plot, but most often the characters for the rest of the show!Enjoy! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

In this episode, Adam shows you the stuff you don't show people. Essentially, the early writings you never show people, because plotlines and parts are all over the place, jokes are tested out, and the story starts to take its shape.Enjoy the show! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

In this episode, we discuss brainstorming ideas. How do you decide which is best for your pilot?Enjoy the show! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).Follow us on all your favorite podcast apps!SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

In this episode, we discuss the challenge of Choosing Ideas for a pilot. What makes a great idea? How do you create a TV show engine?We hope you enjoy our show! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).You can follow us here:SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

Outlining + Story / Screenwriting 101 (Part 3 of 3)In this episode, we discuss creating a story on an outline!We hope you enjoy our show! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).You can follow us here:SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

Characters, Plot, and Adam's Fractal Theory Screenwriting 101: A Brief Introduction to Screenwriting (Part 2 of 3)In this episode, we discuss, what makes great characters, coming up with plot, and what is Adam's Fractal Theory? We hope you enjoy our show! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of the show! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).You can follow us here:SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦

Screenwriting 101: A Brief Introduction to Screenwriting(Part 1 of 3)Hello Script Nerds! Welcome to our new podcast where we dive into the trenches of screenwriting, revealing to you just how much work goes into a script that your audience will never see!In Season 1 of our show, we spend the first 3 episodes giving you a brief introduction to writing, so if you want, you can get your own script underway. In our episodes (3-19) we go through the journey of taking a script from a blank page to a full, half-hour, comedic, TV pilot. And EPISODE 20 is a table read of the script with actors!In this episode, we focus on Choosing a Format and World Building.We hope you enjoy our show! To get involved you can:1️⃣ Hit SUBSCRIBE so you never miss an episode of this series! 🛎️2️⃣ Leave us a 5-star review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, 5 stars helps us a lot! 3️⃣ Share this episode and tag us @scriptnerds! 🙌VIP Membership: We have a Patreon, and $5 a month gets you BONUS EPISODES, NO ADS, and MORE! (Note, bonus episodes will start airing after Season 1 concludes with Episode 20).You can follow us here:SpotifyApple PodcastsSOCIALSScript NerdsInstagramThreadsBlueSkyAdam PinelessInstagramThreadsBlueSkyShannon SelisInstagram🖋️ or 🪦