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Session #171 - "Blindspotting" Showrunner Rafael Casal
Blindspotting creator/writer/producer/director/actor Rafael Casal (Miles) talks about how touring with his music and poetry transformed into telling stories about his community in Oakland, CA in the award-winning Starz series.Show Notes:Rafael Casal
Session #170 - Tidbits from Stephen King’s “On Writing”
This session, we discuss what Tom learned about Stephen King and writing from his book On Writing including the tools and techniques King uses and recommends as well as revealing details about his journey to becoming a published author.Book Descriptio
Session #169 - Screenwriting with Tyler Mowery from Top Development
Our guest this session is screenwriter, YouTuber, and podcaster Tyler Mowery who recently rebranded his YouTube Channel with 266,000 subscribers as Top Development. We talk about Tylers journey, process and script consultant services.SHOW NOTES: To
Session #168 - WGA Priorities
SHOW NOTES:Writers Group Therapy Session #166 - CreAItors http://www.writersgrouptherapy.com/2021/05/session-134-ai/Writers Guild Highlights Compensation, Mini-Rooms in 2023 Negotiations Pattern of Demandshttps://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus
Session 167 - Promoting Your Writing
In this session, we discuss promoting your written works and compare promoting books, scripts, shorts and web series.SHOW NOTES: Rachanees Books: https://www.rachanee.net The Game Series: https://www.youtube.com/@thegameseries Laurie Loveman, Nov
Session #166 - CreAItors
Our future AI overlords have made significant progress since our last episode about AI (Session #134 Artificial Intelligence in Hollywood: http://www.writersgrouptherapy.com/2021/05/session-134-ai/). We talk Buzzfeed replacing writers with chatbots, DnD
Session #165 - Interview with the creators of the comedy streaming show “The Game”
We talk with the creators of the new comedy streaming series The Game. Writers/creators Matt Curtain and Lauren Henning, and director Amanda Sonnenschein talk about the genesis of the show and its unique tone and humor.From the show: The Game is an ens
Session #164 - Hello, 2023!
In this session, we talk our writing goals for 2023, the latest news including the WGA prepping for contract negotiations, Twitch payout cuts, COVID in Hollywood, Moviepass resurrection, and more.SHOW NOTES:Twitch payout cutsWGA Negotiations/Strike Pr
Session #163 - Franchise Fatigue Fatigue
Were tired of being tired of Franchise Fatigue, but its a serious issue. There is a steep downward curve in payback on subsequent entries and spin-offs/prequels etc., which is fueling a feedback circle of layoffs and cancellations in Hollywood. Why is t
Session #162 - Who Dunt Dunt DUNNit? with Thomas Tulak and Adam Pineless
Writer/Director Thomas Tulak, and Assistant Director/Composer Adam Pineless talk about Who Dunt Dunt DUNNit? their a hyper-meta, award-winning comedy film. Its a hilarious murder mystery, wrapped in a murder mystery wrapped in a movie production about