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Write Along with David and Cargill

David Chen

Write Along with David and Cargill

A weekly TV, Film and Arts podcast
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Write Along with David and Cargill

David Chen

Write Along with David and Cargill

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Write Along with David and Cargill

David Chen

Write Along with David and Cargill

A weekly TV, Film and Arts podcast
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David and Cargill discuss how to get through Act 2 and the Second Act Slump. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. Find more episodes of this show at writealongpodcast.com. Foll
David and Cargill discuss how to keep on keeping’ on when external factors torpedo something you’re working on. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. Find more episodes of this
David and Cargill discuss what it’s like to try to be creative in the midst of a pandemic, and how it can sometimes be difficult to satirize something as outlandish as real life. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Email us with your questions/t
Cargill and David discuss tips for getting a career writing about film. Follow David on Letterboxd Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. Find more episodes of this show at write
Cargill and David discuss whether or not you should make a trilogy of films and whether paid editors are scams. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. Find more episodes of this
Cargill and David discuss Cargill’s four favorite films of 2019. Listen to David’s top 10 films of 2019  Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. Find more episodes of this show at
Cargill and David discuss what the literary equivalent is of “make your own movie” and the pleasures and pains of the vanity press. Listen to our previous episode about this topic here. Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts. Email us with your ques
Cargill and David discuss what happens when you work on a project that ends up getting made by someone else. Cargill’s tweet about Netflix’s Locke and Key Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. Find more episodes
Cargill and David discuss Christopher McQuarrie’s recent advice on whether or not you should try to “win the lottery” by submitting your script to a studio. McQuarrie has since taken down the Twitter thread but many reproductions exist online,
Franklin Leonard joins the Write Along podcast to discuss the history of The Black List and share tips for screenwriters looking to host their screenplays on The Black List website. Follow Franklin Leonard on Twitter Learn more about The Black
David is joined by writer/director Vincenzo Natali (director of Cube, Splice, Westworld, Hannibal) to discuss tips for making a low-budget high-concept film. Be sure to check out Vincenzo’s newest film, In the Tall Grass, on Netflix. Cargill wi
David and Cargill discuss their preferred PDF readers and give advice to a writer struggling to make his characters more interesting. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. ind more episodes of this show at writea
David and Cargill discuss how to encourage young writers and how to consume media about a genre you’re writing in. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. ind more episodes of this show at writealongpodcast.com. Fo
David and Cargill share more tips on when best to begin and end scenes. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. ind more episodes of this show at writealongpodcast.com. Follow us on Twitter @writealongpod. Follow C
David and Cargill discuss what happens when you set unrealistic goals and the value of not giving up. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. ind more episodes of this show at writealongpodcast.com. Follow us on Tw
David and Cargill discuss if/when to get permission for copyrighted content in your work. (Note: we aren’t legal experts and you should always speak to a lawyer if you have any questions) Email us with your questions/thoughts at writealongpodca
David and Cargill discuss how to approach short stories, and share their favorites. Short stories mentioned: The Labyrinth by Jorge Luis Borges “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman by Harlan Ellison The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Email us
David and Cargill discuss how to make a character likable and touch upon the difference between tropes and cliches. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. ind more episodes of this show at writealongpodcast.com. F
David and Cargill talk the Pauper Principle and how it can be used to create a connection between your audience and a character in your story. See Cargill’s tweet that spawned this episode. Email us with your questions/thoughts at writealongpod
David and Cargill talk about why voiceover generally isn’t a good idea for horror films, and why your film or story doesn’t need to have revolutionary new ideas to share with the world to be great. See Cargill’s tweet that spawned this episode.
David and Cargill talk about how to approach a screenplay when your villain is the protagonist. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. ind more episodes of this show at writealongpodcast.com. Follow us on Twitter
David and Cargill talk about the best way to do “info-dumps.” Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. ind more episodes of this show at writealongpodcast.com. Follow us on Twitter @writealongpod. Follow Cargill on
David and Cargill discuss the importance of writing for an audience and why artistic narcissism is one of the biggest sins a writer can commit. Check out Cargill’s tweets spawning this conversation here and here. Email us with your questions/th
David and Cargill discuss why many faith-based/Evangelical films aren’t any good, and what makes a good Christian film. Email us with your questions/thoughts at [email protected]. ind more episodes of this show at writealongpodcast.co
David and Cargill discuss how to pace scenes and how to get in and out of them. Later, they chat about Danny Boyle’s new film Yesterday and what we can learn about paying off premises. Read Cargill’s tweet that prompted this discussion. Email u
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