BFL chats with Licensed Poetics Dear Friend Derek Dao about reading, writing, screenwriting, and if BFL needs therapy. How are TV scenes created? Why does movie-style writing NOT work for novels? When will Derek sell his million dollar story idea about being stuck in an endless tunnel? Listen and find out.

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Chapters

00:00 Music

00:46 Derek intro

03:06 BFL reading update

13:15 Derek reading update

24:41 What Derek and BFL write

32:28 Sad writers

34:08 Derek story pitch

43:29 Favourite screen tropes

47:25 What TV or movie would you make

Works mentioned

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

Derry Girls by Lisa McGee (TV)

Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Van der Meer

HP Lovecraft

Annihilation by Alex Garland (Film)

True Detective (TV)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto

The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan (Film)

BoJack Horseman (TV)

Community by Dan Harmon (TV)

Rick and Morty (TV)

Solar Opposites (TV)

Black Mirror (TV)

Ghost-Birds by Nicolas Pizzolatto

Sex Education (TV)

Twin Peak (TV)

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman