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Monday Feb 17, 2025
Monday Feb 17, 2025
It's Mailbag time! Hosts Tasha Huo and Josh Hallman dive into the Act Two inbox and answer listener questions. Don't forget you can always reach out!
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Monday Feb 10, 2025
Monday Feb 10, 2025
Hosts Tasha Huo and Josh Hallman dive back into branding yourself as a screenwriter. We're often told to stay in a lane, but how can you widen that lane? How can you tackle multiple genres at once? And how do you build a brand without boxing yourself in?
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Edited by the GREAT Paul Lundquist
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Monday Feb 03, 2025
Special guest alert. Dave Levinson is back. We’re discussing contained stories — high-stakes, small-scale scripts. We’re diving into what makes these stories work, offer some of our favorites, and discuss why they're so appealing to the industry.
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Edited by the GREAT Paul Lundquist
Monday Jan 27, 2025
Monday Jan 27, 2025
"Cheer Moments" build to those audience-pleasing, emotionally satisfying moments... whether they’re moments of victory, revelation, or catharsis. Hosts Tasha Huo and Josh Hallman discuss writing to these moments, where this term came from (pretty sure it's JJ Abrams), and offer examples.
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Edited by the GREAT Paul Lundquist
Monday Jan 20, 2025
Monday Jan 20, 2025
In difficult times, it's easy to feel lost or that our job as Screenwriters doesn't matter or make a difference. But the opposite is, in fact, true. In this episode, hosts Tasha Huo and Josh Hallman talk about what it's like to write during the crisis of the Los Angeles wildfires, how it's helped them cope, and how it actually sheds light on the unique importance of our job as Screenwriters and Filmmakers.
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Edited by the GREAT Paul Lundquist
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Monday Jan 13, 2025
Hosts Tasha Huo and Josh Hallman want to thank all of our listeners for their support and their check-ins during this unprecedented disaster. We are safe, we are together, and our hearts are broken for Los Angeles.
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Edited by the GREAT Paul Lundquist
Monday Jan 06, 2025
Monday Jan 06, 2025
2025 Screenwriting Goals have been made and now it's time to execute them. Join hosts Tasha Huo and Josh Hallman as they talk about realistic, practical and effective ways to accomplish your screenwriting goals this year. Making career goals and accomplishing them are completely doable and within your control. Let's do this, together.
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Edited by the GREAT Paul Lundquist
Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
Tuesday Dec 31, 2024
In the final episode of Season 5, hosts Tasha Huo and Josh Hallman talk through their 2024 writing goals to see how many they achieved and what lessons can be learned from their failures to prevent a repeat next year. They also list their 2025 writing goals in prep for their New Year's episode...
TWIW: Specs are back! / Movies are back! / Josh's daughter makes them both cry / Tasha's emotional pitch
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Edited by the GREAT Paul Lundquist
Monday Dec 23, 2024
Monday Dec 23, 2024
As INTERSTELLAR (2014) gets its IMAX re-release, hosts Tasha Huo and Josh Hallman discuss how Christopher Nolan world builds in the film, utilizing every aspect of filmmaking at his disposal from shot framing, camera movement, dialogue, scene-dressing and music. Join in on a mini-breakdown of a masterclass in world-building.
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Edited by the GREAT Paul Lundquist
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Monday Dec 16, 2024
Hosts Tasha Huo and Josh Hallman discuss how to survive the holidays as a writer while staying productive, the best holiday gifts to get writers, and how to shop for those pesky managers and agents of yours.
TWIW: the Blacklist winners were announced, and Tasha & Josh have some favorites; movie-watching etiquette disaster during Interstellar; Tasha has two very different kinds of pitches in the same week, what does that look like? Plus another installment of WOULD YOU RATHER?
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Edited by the GREAT Paul Lundquist