Write Your Screenplay Podcast

Opus: ‘Elevated’ Horror and Allegory

Hypnosis for Writers: Break Through Writers Block with Jacob Krueger

Sinners: Theme, Tone & the Sea Change

Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?

Adolescence Episode 3: Adolescence, The Wire and Pattern Based Engine

Adolescence Episode 2: Dialectical Screenwriting

Adolescence Episode 1: Playing at the Top Of Your Intelligence

Thunderbolts: Theme in Action Movies

The Last of Us Season 2: Resetting Your Series Engine

Nickel Boys and Shawshank Redemption: Primary and Secondary Structure

The White Lotus: Why Season 3 Feels Different

Anora: Using the “Sea Change” to Supercharge Structure

The Brutalist Part 2: Do You Need an Active Main Character?

The Brutalist Part 1: How to Deal with Experts & Research

The Apprentice: Writing The Antihero

Lessons from Sundance 2025 Part 2

Lessons from Sundance 2025 Part 1

A Real Pain: Building Characters With Vignettes

A Complete Unknown: Writing The Biopic

How to Prepare a 3 Minute “Elevator Pitch”

Keep Your New Years Resolutions: Do You Need More Discipline?

Ensemble Pieces with Erin Brown Thomas

The Penguin: What’s The Container for Your Show or Movie?

How To Get The Most From Film Festivals

The Starless Sea: Harnessing The Power of Metaphor

Between the Temples – Alternative Forms of Structure

Strange Darling: Primary and Secondary Structure

The Bear Season 3 and Furiosa: The Past is Prologue

Deadpool vs Wolverine: Action Movie Structure and Set Pieces

The Boys, Season 4: The Series Engine

Longlegs vs Hereditary: Character Wants

Is It Time to Quit?

The Fall Guy Part 2: Write For Hollywood Without Selling Out

The Fall Guy: 3 Levels of Subtext

Baby Reindeer: Writing the True Life Story

Monkey Man: Expressionism in Action Movies

Civil War vs Apocalypse Now: The War Movie

Steve Molton: Internal Antagonists and the 7 Forms of Conflict

Poor Things: Theme and Meaning

BEEF: Improv Tools For Screenwriters

Lessons From Sundance 2024, Part II

Lessons From Sundance 2024, Part I

Past Lives: Genre and Premise

Dream Scenario: Passive Main Characters

5 Steps To Keep Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions

4th Annual Pitch Festivus!

10 Tips For a Winning “Elevator” Pitch

Saltburn: A Master Class in Tone

Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapting a True Life Screenplay

Writer’s Block and the Inner Censor