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Pilar Alessandra
ON THE PAGE: Join professional script consultant Pilar Alessandra as she demystifies screenwriting and answers your questions about script craft and story.
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Dec 18, 2020 • 51min
696. 2020 Writing Trends in Review
Career coach Lee Jessup returns to discuss the writing trends popular in 2020 and shares what’s ahead for the new year.

Dec 11, 2020 • 43min
695. Filming it While Living It
With a little help from Michael Bay, Adam Mason and Simon Boyes wrote and produced a movie about the pandemic during the pandemic. Hear how both the story and the production of their movie, Songbird, adapted to the real-life events happening around them.

Dec 4, 2020 • 58min
694. Getting Creative During Covid
Alexander Troxler reached out to other writers during the lockdown and ended up with a collaborative tv pilot and a whole new kind of writers’ room.

Nov 27, 2020 • 36min
693. Unblocking
Stress relief expert Suzanne Gundersen talks about how writers can overcome writer's block by dealing with their fear, grief and anxiety.

Nov 26, 2020 • 9min
692. 2020 Logline Competition Announcement!
Announcement of the deadline and rules for the 2020 Logline Competition. Plus a replay of last year’s bonus episode to remind you of 10 patterns to help build your logline.

Nov 20, 2020 • 55min
691. It’s All About The Theme
Whether she’s writing on the prequel to Game of Thrones, helping adapt Daisy Jones and The Six for Reese Witherspoon’s company or developing a feature film for Margot Robbie, it all comes down to one thing for writer Charmaine DeGrate: theme.

Nov 13, 2020 • 1h 1min
690. Who Invented Oscar Wilde?
David Newhoff, author of Who Invented Oscar Wilde, dives deep into the history of copyright and the protection issues writers and creatives still deal with today.

Nov 6, 2020 • 46min
689. Filmmakers Make!
Making movies. Making film festivals. Tony Gapastione of Bravemaker Productions talks about the many things he’s learned as he creates and curates short films and features.

Oct 30, 2020 • 40min
688. Going to Sketch School
Free-writing, fun writing and brain dumps! Writer/comedian Marc Warzecha talks about ways you can turn an ordinary subject into a hilarious sketch.

Oct 23, 2020 • 47min
687. Burning Down the Kitchen with Mike Royce
Writer/ Producer Mike Royce talks about the ways that life issues and personal stories in the writers’ room inspire episodes of the shows he’s worked on: One Day at a Time, Enlisted, Men of a Certain Age and Everybody Loves Raymond.