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Exploring Lovecraftian Horror and TV Companion Podcasts ft. Shannon Houston (Lovecraft Country) (PT192)

Alex and Nick invite Shannon Houston, writer on the HBO series Lovecraft Country and co-host of the Lovecraft Country Radio podcast, to discuss writing Lovecraftian horror, representation in genre, and producing a companion podcast for a popular series.

How does Lovecraft Country strike a balance with its tone and format each week? What kind of rules are there around the mythology of the world? How is genre and horror used as an allegory to explore social issues? What goes into running a companion podcast to a popular TV show? How is feedback from viewers and listeners received and considered when it comes to the content of the show?

Shannon M Houston

Content

Writing Lovecraftian horror and making a TV companion podcast with Shannon Houston (00:42)
Final advice, resources, and next week on (40:05)

Links

Shannon Houston on Twitter
Lovecraft Country on HBO
Lovecraft Country Radio Podcast

Resource

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am

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TV Business Resources We Use (PT146)

Alex and Nick share the many TV business resources they use for networking, meetings, contact management, writing news, and everything to navigate the television industry.

We go over our personal recommendations we’ve used over the years, and why they matter to us.

Content

1 – Books (00:42)
2 – Apps/Software (11:34)
3 – Hardware/Tools (28:57)
4 – Websites (35:39)
5 – Podcasts (55:23)

Links

“Small Screen, Big Picture” – Chad Gervich
“How to Manage Your Agent” – Gervich Chad
“Hollywood Game Plan” – Carole Kirschner
“This Business of Television” – Howard J. Blumenthal
“Producing Animation” – Catherine Winder and Zahra Dowlatabadi
“The One-Hour Drama: Producing Episodic Television” – Robert Del Valle
“Desperate Networks” – Bill Carter
“Make Your Contacts Count” – Anne Baber and Lynne Waymon
Networking 101: How to Talk With People in Hollywood (PT05)
Airtable
Contacts+
Teamweek
Trello
Boomerang
Slack
Discord
WhatsApp
Line
WeChat
Google Voice
@Voice Aloud Reader (TTS Reader)
Evernote
Google Keep
Venmo
Vistaprint
Moo
Stickermule
Whatshalfway
Doodle
IMDb Pro
Studio System
Variety Insights
WGA Find a Writer
Screenwriters Rant Room
The Business
Industry Standard
The Treatment
WGF Podcast
Australian Screenwriters Podcast
Screen Australia Podcast
Happier in Hollywood
3rd & Fairfax
The Writers Panel
Scriptnotes
Children of Tendu

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

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TV Writing Resources We Use (PT139)

Alex and Nick share the TV writing resources they use for the screenwriting craft, from books, websites, and podcasts, to apps, tools, and hardware.

We go over some of our personal recommendations for television writer resources that we’ve discussed over the years, and why they matter to us.

Content

1 – Books (00:30)
2 – Finding Scripts (11:05)
3 – Apps/Software (14:19)
4 – Hardware/Tools (19:08)
5 – Websites (25:46)
6 – Podcasts (34:55)
7 – Miscellaneous (39:06)

Links

“The Cheeky Monkey” – Tim Ferguson
“Writing the TV Drama Series” – Pamela Douglas
“Television Writing from the Inside Out” – Larry Brody
“The TV Writer’s Handbook” – Ellen Sandler
“Write to TV” – Martie Cook
“Elephant Bucks” – Sheldon Bull
“Crafty TV Writing” – Alex Epstein
“Successful TV Writing” – Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin
“The Coffee Break Screenwriter” – Pilar Alessandra
“The War of Art” – Steven Pressfield
“The Hollywood Standard” – Christopher Riley
“The Emotion Thesaurus” – Becca Puglisi and Angela Ackerman
William C. Martell’s Blue Book series
“On Writing” – Stephen King
WGF Library
TV Calling Script Library
Other TV script library
Final Draft
Highland
Scrivener
Sublime Text
Slack
Moleskine Notebooks
Kindle eReaders
Kobo eReaders
Time Timer
ThinkVision P27h-10 IPS Monitor
TV Tropes
John August Blog
Go Into The Story Blog
r/screenwriting (reddit)
r/worldbuilding (reddit)
“Screenwriting Lessons From” series on TV Calling
Hemingway Editor
Thesaurus
RhymeZone
Rainy Mood
Bose QuietComfort 35 II Noise-Cancelling Headphones
Paper Team Cheat Sheets on Patreon
Breaking Bad Insider Podcast
Battlestar Galactica podcast by Ron Moore
The Writers Panel
3rd and Fairfax
To Live and Dialogue in LA
Scriptnotes
Children of Tendu
Draft Zero
Parker/Stone NYU Lecture (Video)
Big Brother Live Feeds

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:
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