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How to Take Feedback (PT142)

Alex and Nick discuss how to take feedback in your TV writing. Whether you’re on staff or working on your own projects, why and how should you take notes, and when should you say no?

Why is it important to be malleable with your TV scripts? What are the differences in approaching notes as a staff writer and with your own material? How do you deconstruct feedback and understand what needs to be fixed? How should you take a note? When is it worth saying no? How do you reject a note?

Content

1 – The mindset of receiving criticism (00:23)
2 – Why and how to take a note (07:26)
3 – Deconstructing feedback and “the note behind the note” (15:10)
4 – Why and how to reject a note (20:16)
Takeaways and Next Week On (27:28)

Links

Feedback and Notes: Building Your Reading Onion (PT08)

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Special thanks to Alex Switzky for helping us edit this episode.

You can find Paper Team on Twitter:
Alex@TVCalling
Nick@_njwatson
For any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: [email protected]

Performing In and Out of the Writers’ Room ft. Charla Lauriston (Hoops/People of Earth) (PT141)

Alex and Nick welcome Charla Lauriston, writer on Hoops, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and People of Earth, to discuss pitching in the writers’ room and working as a stand-up comedian.

How can you be effective in a writers’ room? Should you gauge your own pitches? How does stand-up translates to TV writing? What is the process of writing a comedy routine? How do you sustain a TV writing career beyond that first job?

The Paper Team is a laugh riot…

PT141 Charla Lauriston

Content

Performing In and Out of the Comedy Writers’ Room with Charla Lauriston (00:30)
Final Advice, Resources, and Next Week On (46:33)

Links

Charla Lauriston
Charla Lauriston on Twitter
Charla Lauriston on Instagram
Hoops on Netflix

If you enjoyed this episode and others, please consider supporting us on Patreon at paperteam.co/patreon! :)

Special thanks to Alex Switzky for helping us edit this episode.

You can find Paper Team on Twitter:
Alex@TVCalling
Nick@_njwatson
For any questions, comments or feedback, you can e-mail us: [email protected]

Eleven Years of TV Calling

Turns out, today marks the 11th (!!) anniversary of TV Calling.

What an achievement!

You already know what I’m going to say next —

THANK YOU for being there, year after year, joining the call.
The community is only growing bigger and bigger, both here, on the podcast, on our mailing list, and our group.

And who says celebration, also thinks of all we’ve done in the past year.

First, we can start with all the Paper Team successes — multiple live events (including a phenomenal 100th episode panel), tons of records in listernship, a Patreon launch, and plenty of other celebrations along the way.

Speaking of all the records we’re breaking… A couple of years ago on this day, we were on the brink of breaking 700 posts. We’re now surpassed 800 posts! Insane.

Lastly, since we have stats fan, let’s talk latest numbers. 2019 is already well on its way to being the most-viewed year on record, with an average of nearly 480+ visitors every single day for the main site alone, and nearly half a million downloads for our script library itself. That’s not even looking at Paper Team numbers, which we’ll talk about in our 150th.

It’s been a very humbling and inspiring experience to continue creating so much TV writing content that excites and helps people. As I always say, write on.

Here’s to another year of incredible success — and so much more content to be created!

Let’s go for year twelve.