Write Your Writing Down

Write Your Writing Down

By Kathleen JonesTV & Film
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Write Your Writing Down episodes

  • Writing: It's a Wonderful Life! (10)
    It's the Building & Loan for me.
    WRITING: Outlining an old movie script
    READING: Hercule Poirot's Christmas.
    WATCHING: It's a Wonderful Life
    Thanks for joining! Use the hashtags #writingmywritingdown and #writereadwatch to show me what you’re working on. I follow these hashtags! Follow me at @hellokathleenj on instagram & twitter, this podcast on IG at @writingmywritingdown, and all podcast transcripts on my blog at hellokathleenjones.com.
    Edited by the amazingly British & talented Harrison Lewis, @harryjtl. Special thanks to Ruby Hankey, Amie Cazel and Erin Raderstorf. Check out the transcript for this episode at hellokathleenjones.com, and let me know what you’re writing today.
    17 min
  • Thriving When You Don't Have a Clue (9)
    Below the threshold of thousands of hours of dedicated work, we’re all flailing around in a bucket hoping not to get shot as we try to blindly write scripts. I don’t know what I’m doing. Maybe you don’t either. That’s okay! Do your pages today.
    WRITING: My episode for a new fiction podcast series!
    READING: Your Blue Flame (Jennifer Fulwiler) So good. Practical, funny, easy to read.
    WATCHING: Jen's The Naughty Corner (on Amazon Prime), Miranda (on Hulu)
    Thanks for joining! Use the hashtags #writingmywritingdown and #writereadwatch to show me what you’re working on. I follow these hashtags! Follow me at @hellokathleenj on instagram & twitter, this podcast on IG at @writingmywritingdown, and all podcast transcripts on my blog at hellokathleenjones.com.
    Edited by the amazingly British & talented Harrison Lewis, @harryjtl. Special thanks to Ruby Hankey, Amie Cazel and Erin Raderstorf. Check out the transcript for this episode at hellokathleenjones.com, and let me know what you’re writing today.
    15 min
  • How Nannying Prepares Me for Staff Writer (8)
    Few know this, but teaching kids their ABCs leads straight to a staff job at ABC. Hopefully, no one in the writer’s room will need a diaper change, and if they do, fingers crossed that’s below my pay grade by then. But! Here are some ways I think childcare does apply to a professional career in the arts.
    If you want to get your writing done, write it down. Follow on instagram & twitter @hellokathleenj, IG @writingmywritingdown, hellokathleenjones.com. Edited by the amazingly British, very talented Harrison Lewis-- slide into his DMs on twitter @harryjtl. Special thanks to Ruby Hankey and Amie Cazel. Read the transcript for this episode here.
    11 min
  • The Best Time to Write is When You Don't Have Time (7)
    Try to work out your work in progress with a few different writer brains; your calm writer brain is frequently, but not always your sharpest. 
    WRITING: A new sitcom pilot! Feels so good to write a new fun thing. I'm writing it in an online class at Stage 32.
    READING: The Sound of Stars by Alechia Dow. I loved it! Really recommend. Hope there's a sequel.
    WATCHING: Kim’s Convenience!!! It’s my second watch, or first rewatch. I absolutely love this show.
    Thanks for joining! Use the hashtags #writingmywritingdown and #writereadwatch to show me what you’re working on. Say hey at @hellokathleenj on instagram & twitter, this podcast on IG at @writingmywritingdown, hellokathleenjones.com.
    Edited by the amazingly British & talented Harrison Lewis, @harryjtl. Special thanks to Ruby Hankey and Amie Cazel. Check out the transcript for this episode here, and let me know what you’re writing today.
    6 min
  • How Nannying Preps Me for Staff Writer

    Few know this, but teaching kids their ABCs leads straight to a staff job at ABC. Hopefully, no one in the writer’s room will need a diaper change, and if they do, fingers crossed that’s below my pay grade by then. But! Here are some ways I think childcare does apply to a professional career in the arts.

    If you want to get your writing done, write it down. Follow on instagram & twitter @hellokathleenj, IG @writingmywritingdown, hellokathleenjones.com. Edited by the amazingly British, very talented Harrison Lewis-- slide into his DMs on twitter @harryjtl. Special thanks to Ruby Hankey and Amie Cazel. Read the transcript for this episode here.

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    6 min
  • Give Thanks for the Talent of Others (6)
    HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! A little parable about jealousy, a wise young priest, and Hugh Grant. 
    WRITING: A new sitcom about medieval nuns! Just for fun. From a class I took with Spencer Robinson at Stage 32.
    READING: The Comic Toolbox— finished, so good! 
    WATCHING: The Crown, The Spy Who Dumped Me, The West Wing turkey-pardoning episode. 
    Thanks for joining! Use the hashtags #writingmywritingdown and #writereadwatch to show me what you’re working on. I follow these hashtags! Follow me at @hellokathleenj on instagram & twitter, this podcast on IG at @writingmywritingdown, and all podcast transcripts on my blog at hellokathleenjones.com.
    Edited by the amazingly British & talented Harrison Lewis, twitter @harryjtl. Special thanks to Ruby Hankey, Amie Cazel and Erin Raderstorf. Check out the transcript for this episode here, and let me know what you’re writing today.
    Disclosure: These are affiliate links, which helps little podcasts make some $ by linking to Amazon. Purchases ensure I can keep my amazing team Venmo’d and happy. Thanks!
    12 min
  • Have People to Let Down (5)
    I love my writer's group, Ellipses. This is my love letter to those five women. It's also a story about how I failed, and how you can fail too, by sleeping through an important meeting. 
    Writing: In my journal. Noodling around. An article.
    Watching: The Chi on Showtime
    Reading: The Way of a Pilgrim (an old favorite)
    If you want to get your writing done, write it down. Follow on instagram & twitter @hellokathleenj, IG @writingmywritingdown, hellokathleenjones.com. Edited by the amazingly British, very talented Harrison Lewis-- slide into his DMs on twitter @harryjtl. Special thanks to Ruby Hankey and Amie Cazel.
    Read the transcript for this episode here.
    8 min
  • Writing is the Cause and Cure for Anxiety (4)
    Writing makes me anxious! Not writing also makes me anxious. The act of writing causes me big nervous anxiety and also is the only thing that gets rid of it. What's a girl to do when she's trying to finish a new script? I try to answer my own question. If you have suggestions, please DM me at @hellokathleenj & @writingmywritingdown on Instagram.
    Writing: a new pilot
    Watching: The Austin Film Festival! And Miracle Workers on TBS.
    Reading: The Comic Toolbox (Big recommend. Do the exercises for real.)
    If you want to get your writing done, write it down. Follow on instagram & twitter @hellokathleenj, IG @writingmywritingdown, hellokathleenjones.com. Edited by the amazingly British, very talented Harrison Lewis. Tell him how much you love the subtle, yet spot-on, musical underscoring by tweeting him @harryjtl. Special thanks to Ruby Hankey and Amie Cazel.
    9 min
  • How to Bomb a Rewrite (2)
    I bombed a recent rewrite of my comedy half-hour spec, and now I've got to lay it to rest, even though it isn't done. Some new script beckons. If you'd like to fall flat on your face trying to rewrite something that's pretty good-ish, listen and learn! 
    Proof that this script placed in the second round at Austin: It's called Sacred Heart and I'm called Kathleen Jones, scroll down to find me. 
    hellokathleenjones.com fun blogs and all my scripts and stuff
    instagram.com/hellokathleenj I obsessively check my DMs please say hi
    instagram.com/writingmywritingdown I'll share anything you tag me in-- write stuff down! Show me! I'm already proud of you.
    twitter.com/hellokathleenj  I try to be cool & make jokes with other screenwriters.
    11 min

About Write Your Writing Down

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If you want to get writing done, write it down. Short reflections from screenwriter and playwright Kathleen Jones.