The Creative Writing Life

Join Justin Sloan and Paul Zeidman on the Creative Writing Life podcast as they discuss the ATX Television Festival, the WGA strike as it goes into week 4, and more fun writing life tidbits.

https://atxfestival.com/

ABOUT ATX:

ATX TV Festival is a one-of-kind festival experience, bringing TV fans & industry together to celebrate their favorite moments in TV as one community. Join us for deep-dives into how your favorite shows are made, revisit past favorites, and discover something new at "TV Camp for Grown Ups" in downtown Austin, TX.Heading into our 12th Season, the festival showcases past, current, and upcoming series through reunions, screenings, intimate Q&As, panel discussions, events, and more. Screenings include never-aired pilots, canceled-too-soon series, current favorites, and world premieres. Panels conversations range from industry deep-dives to fan-focused conversations, along with discussions on TV's responsibility and impact on culture.

Starting with highly collectible NFT comics and characters, we are building the next generation of entertainment. By integrating user-generated and community driven content with our original IP we incubate and fund new projects, invest in creators, concepts and people, and provide a clear and open door for aspirational storytellers from across the globe.

The Founders are doxed, have started, bought and sold companies and have extensive experience creating entertainment, having collaborated with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay, Seth Rogen, Quentin Tarantino and Pendleton Ward, on brands and projects such as Disney, Pixar, Jurassic Park, Transformers, Spartacus, Adventure Time, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, WWE and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just to name a few.

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#Comics #Macroverse #web3

Jack Confora discusses playwrighting with the Creative Writing Life podcast!

More about Jack:

He’s been hailed by the Associated Press as “White-hot Entertainment” for his off-Broadway plays including Poetic License, Place Setting, and Jericho, a New York Times “Critics Pick.” He was nominated along with Edward Albee, Elaine May, and Teresa Rebeck for The Newark Star Ledger’s Best Play, 2007. Jack is the recipient of two Edgerton Playwriting Awards, for Jericho (2010) and The Source (2018). He won the 2016 Webby Award for Best Writing in a Web Series. Jack is also the Artistic Director of New Normal Rep.

At Command Your Brand, it’s our mission to help podcasters get awesome trained guests that deliver a powerful story to listeners. If you think that Jack is a good fit for you on your show, please send your recording availability & let’s set something up! Or if you are interested and are in need of more information to help make your decision, I can send some more detailed information like his podcast media kit, previous interviews, links to his website(s), socials & more, just please let me know!

https://www.jackcanforawriter.com/?fbclid=IwAR389KCOELMTgSmeyhWf9_ys68eY9Ul10dto9b8sp8GtamjgnufG0Ytv6RE

This week we had Eli Edelson on discussing the WGA strike with Paul and Justin of the Creative Writing Life podcast.

We discussed what the strike means, some details such as mini rooms and non-writing duties, and more! Enjoy and show your support!

Some links:

We also discussed the SFWC, Podcasting, Promotion, and hurdles with the creative life.

Find his show and more information:

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Pure Movie Magic - Satisfy your inner punk rock, blockbuster-loving, anime nerd, geek, heart with all original movies & shows made by a lovely band of misfits making movie magic.

Stefanie Hubbard is a writer, director, and executive producer in New York City. She is the owner of Pure Magic Pictures, the studio behind all of her films and TV shows, as well as the video production company Galaxy Visuals, and the audio company Little Dipper Sound. Enjoy!

Amy Suto joined the Creative Writing Life Podcast to discuss her book Six-Figure Freelance Writer and share her experince with freelance writing, attending USC, and how she pivoted during the shutdown.

Check out the book - https://amzn.to/3KCbjdX

About Amy Suto: Amy Suto began her career as a Hollywood TV writer before hitting the road and becoming a digital nomad and six-figure freelance writer. Now, she travels the world while ghostwriting memoirs and working on her own creative projects. When she's not writing, Amy travels the world and works remotely from cafes in Prague — or is misplacing her AirPods in Lisbon. You can learn more about Amy at: AmySuto.com.

#SixFigureAuthor #FreelanceWriting #freelancewriter

Steve Cleary discusses Storbang - a tool and system for film professionals!

STORBANG

https://www.storbang.com/be-your-own-action-hero

We make tools and systems for film professionals who want to BANG out their STORies quickly and effectively. We also produce dry, offbeat and irreverent videos and brand concepts.

ABOUT STEVE - FROM STEVE

I’m not an actor, but I play one on TV… when I hook my computer up to it. I created my own web series where I get to be my own TV star and I want to help you do that too — without any money, special skills or fancy equipment.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XH3N3D2

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Jenny Frankfurt joined us to discuss the Finish Line Script Competition, being a manager, and all sort of fun creative talk.

https://finishlinescriptcomp.com

ABOUT JENNY

Jenny Frankfurt is the founder of the Finish Line Script Competition. Finish Line is based on the idea that rewriting is essential to being a successful writer and we provide development notes when requested in order for writers to rewrite and resubmit new drafts (for free) throughout the competition. This mimics a studio, network or production company process and helps the writer prepare for a serious career in the entertainment industry.

Prior to Finish Line and her work as a script consultant, Jenny was a film and television literary manager/producer with her own company, Highstreet Management based in Los Angeles. Highstreet represented writers around the globe, specializing but not limited to breaking UK, European & Australian writers and directors into the US market. She sold television shows (both reality and fiction), features and staffed television shows for almost 20 years.

Jenny began her career in representation after graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts by working at the William Morris Agency in New York where she worked for a legendary film, tv and playwright’s agent, who represented such writers as Eric Bogosian, William Mastrosimone, Warren Leight, Eric Overmyer and Jon Robin Baitz.

From NYC Jenny moved to Los Angeles where she worked at ICM with clients such as Susan Sarandon, Louis Malle, Johnny Depp, Lasse Hallstrom and Will Smith. After deciding management would give her more freedom to produce and influence her client’s careers she started working with manager Rick Yorn and clients such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron Diaz, Claire Danes and Benicio Del Toro among others.

Jenny tried her own hand at producing the independent feature JOHNNY HIT AND RUN PAULINE, to which Emma Thompson was attached as Executive Producer. Jenny then started working with manager Benny Medina at Handprint Entertainment, representing talent, literary and production clients. She soon became Head of Handprint’s Literary Department.

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