Learn how to use The Audience Draft to surprise both your audience and your characters as you build the structure of your screenplay. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our Happy Hour of Writing Exercises with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET, RSVP: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/free-writing-classes-thursday-night-writes/ Learn more about our programs: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com
Oct 26, 2022•28 min•Season 11Ep. 18
This simple metaphor can help you find your screenplay’s structure intuitively. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our Happy Hour of Writing Exercises with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET, RSVP: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/free-writing-classes-thursday-night-writes/ Learn more about our programs: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com
Oct 13, 2022•18 min•Season 11Ep. 17
Learn about getting staffed on a TV show and the experience of working in the writer's room on Homeland from our newest faculty member, Jonathan Redding.
Sep 28, 2022•55 min•Season 11Ep. 16
Learn from writer/producer/director Christian Lybrook about the inner work of becoming a professional screenwriter.
Sep 14, 2022•37 min•Season 11Ep. 15
Learn from The Bear the vital importance of the first image of your screenplay or pilot, and how to use that first image to build a successful opening sequence for your script, your pilot or your whole season.
Aug 24, 2022•29 min•Season 11Ep. 14
Learn the differences between plays and screenplays, and how you can use some of the skills you have as a playwright in order to make the transition into screenwriting or TV writing.
Jul 27, 2022•28 min•Season 11Ep. 13
For all its impressive success, Top Gun: Maverick misses a tremendous opportunity to say something that matters. Jake talks about writing’s power to change the world and shares an exercise in writing for political change. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our FREE writing workshop with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET, RSVP: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/thursday/ Learn more about our programs: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com
Jul 12, 2022•21 min•Season 11Ep. 12
Learn from Winning Time how to adapt a true-life story into a TV show or feature film by focusing on your theme. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our FREE writing workshop with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET, RSVP: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/thursday/ Learn more about our programs: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com
Jun 29, 2022•25 min•Season 11Ep. 11
Learn how an effective TV Series Pilot, Show Bible and Pitch Deck work together to help you sell a TV Series. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our FREE writing workshop with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET, RSVP: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/thursday/ Learn more about our programs: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com
Jun 14, 2022•22 min•Season 11Ep. 10
Learn a new way of thinking about archetypes and the Hero’s Journey that will help you transcend stereotypes and create unforgettable characters and structure in your screenplay or TV Show. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our FREE writing workshop with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET, RSVP: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/thursday/ Learn more about our programs: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com
May 12, 2022•23 min•Season 11Ep. 9
Learn how HBO’s series The Gilded Age creates high stakes around what appear to be low-stakes plot points and 5 simple steps to raise the stakes in your own screenplay or series pilot. If you liked this Podcast, join us for Thursday Night Writes! Our FREE writing workshop with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET, RSVP: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/thursday/ Learn more about our programs: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com
Apr 27, 2022•43 min•Season 11Ep. 8
Learn the four elements of character development, and how thinking of characters as verbs instead of adjectives can help you write unforgettable characters.
Mar 30, 2022•26 min•Season 11Ep. 7
Learn from acclaimed indie producer Noah Lang how to produce your own low budget film, connect with producers, and build your career, even if you’re not independently wealthy.
Mar 14, 2022•31 min•Season 11Ep. 6
Learn techniques for building relationships with the right people to pitch your script and sell your screenplay. Part 4 of How to Sell Your Screenplay
Feb 26, 2022•48 min•Season 11Ep. 5
Learn how to identify and target the producers, managers, agents, directors and stars most likely to connect to your writing, not by selling out, but by selling into the very themes that made you want to write in the first place. Part 3 of the How To Sell Your Screenplay podcast series.
Feb 12, 2022•31 min•Season 11Ep. 4
There are hundreds of screenwriting competitions and festivals. Can they help you sell your screenplay and break into the film industry? Learn more about our programs: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com
Jan 29, 2022•41 min•Season 11Ep. 3
Jake examines how emerging writers can break into the film industry and sell a screenplay or TV pilot. Part 1.
Jan 15, 2022•26 min•Season 11Ep. 2
Jake shares 5 tips for making writing resolutions that work. Understand the Flash Flood Principle for setting goals for yourself learn how to make New Year’s resolutions for your writing that last a lifetime.
Jan 01, 2022•27 min•Season 11Ep. 1
Pitch Festivus is almost here! Jake shares the secrets for how to make an elevator pitch that will help you master what you need for any pitch contest.
Dec 08, 2021•41 min•Season 10Ep. 21
Learn how every TV series functions just like Thanksgiving dinner in this new podcast about how to build your TV series engine from pilot to series finale.
Nov 25, 2021•23 min•Season 10Ep. 20
Learn how to write exposition without bogging down your screenplay through Jake’s script analysis of the Dune 2021 adaptation.
Nov 13, 2021•32 min•Season 10Ep. 19
Using Dexter as a model, learn how to write action in a screenplay and how to turn cliché moments into unforgettable ones.
Oct 30, 2021•28 min•Season 10Ep. 18
How can you overcome your fear of pitching? Learn Jake’s approach for overcoming fear and pitching your script like a pro.
Oct 16, 2021•33 min•Season 10Ep. 17
Learn to write great dialogue and complex subtext by looking where you might least expect it: Netflix’s charming reality TV show Love on the Spectrum.
Oct 03, 2021•27 min•Season 10Ep. 16
Jake shares professional tips for prioritizing your writing goals as well as personal experiences for how to create your own writing lifestyle.
Sep 04, 2021•38 min•Season 10Ep. 15
Learn from Ted Lasso how to take a “seen it before” idea, and turn it into a transcendent screenplay.
Aug 21, 2021•15 min•Season 10Ep. 14
Learn to develop multidimensional characters that you and your reader can care about, by connecting to your primal emotional needs.
Aug 07, 2021•28 min•Season 10Ep. 13
Learn how to write the perfect logline for your movie or TV show by understanding the key elements of top films and TV shows like Jaws, Brokeback Mountain, Bojack Horseman and Get Out.
Jul 10, 2021•42 min•Season 10Ep. 12
Learn from Halston what makes a character likable and how to make an audience root for an “unlikable” main character.
Jun 23, 2021•27 min•Season 10Ep. 11
Through a deep analysis of Wandavision’s genre, structure, theme and engine, Jake shows you how to apply the lessons of Wandavision to finding your own voice as a writer.
Jun 02, 2021•42 min•Season 10Ep. 10
