by Film School | Jul 15, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #203 How To Make Your Story Feel Real Truth is what we’re seeking in art. We’re not looking for structure, or technique, or skill, or three acts, or crises, or backstory, or any of the stuff we spend so much time talking about on podcasts...
by Film School | Jul 8, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #201 How To Do Something New “Step outside your comfort zone.” “Do something new.” Okay…but how? HOW do you do something that you’ve never done before? Stepping outside the comfort zone is, by...
by Film School | Jul 1, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #199 How To Use Backstory It can be so easy to get lost in creating backstory/worldbuilding/brainstorming/etc. for our plot and characters…but where does the rubber actually meet the road where that kind of work shows up in our finished product?...
by Film School | Jun 24, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #197 How to Stay Motivated It takes energy–a lot of it–to create. So, how in the heck do you maintain the kind of energy it takes to get stuff done? What keeps you motivated to put in the time and do the work? And once you’ve got some...
by Film School | Jun 17, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #195 The Trap of ‘Just Write the Bad Version’ “Just write the bad version! Get it out of your head, then it’s real and you can actually start to fix it. A ‘vomit draft.’ It doesn’t matter if it’s good or...
by Film School | Jun 10, 2021 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #193 Quarantine Postmortem COVID is not over…but with vaccinations in our arms, this may be as close as we get to the chance to look back over the past year of quarantine. How have we changed? What have we learned? What lies ahead? We talk about...
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