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Manager Communication, Assistant Work, and Staffing Starts – Paper Scraps Monthly (PT167)

Manager Communication, Assistant Work, and Staffing Starts – Paper Scraps Monthly (PT167)

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Alex is back with fellow writer Evelyn Yves to answer your TV writing questions about using life experiences, communicating with your reps, finding assistant gigs, getting started on staffing, and being critical of your own ideas.

Plus, we look at some of the latest TV writing news about FYC scripts and big data in Hollywood.

Reminder

We’re having our second mixer this week! Join us Friday, January 31 at Village Idiot on Melrose. The event starts at 7:30PM. More information available at http://paperteam.co/mixermelrose

Content

Audience Questions: life experiences, rep communication, assistant gigs, starting staffing, and handling idea criticism (01:24)
TV Writing News: Golden Globes, favorite shows, FYC scripts, and big data in Hollywood (29:41)

Links

Evelyn Yves on Twitter
Katy Keene premieres February 6 on The CW
Breaking in as a TV Writer Later in Life ft. J. Holtham (PT92)
Script Readiness, Contests, and Career Detours – Paper Scraps Monthly (PT160)
Perspective and POVs in TV Writing (PT88)
“Big Data Comes to Hollywood: The Brewing Antitrust Battle of the Streaming Era” – The Hollywood Reporter

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The 2019 Paper Team Holiday Special (PT164)

The 2019 Paper Team Holiday Special (PT164)

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Alex and Nick celebrate the end of 2019 by taking a look back at the last year of the decade, both for Paper Team and TV writing news, plus answering more of your questions, celebrating our fans, and announcing our 2020 plans for the podcast.

When and how can you include holidays in your scripts? What were the most popular and discussed episodes of Paper Team in 2019? What were our favorite shows, movies, music, books of the year? What are our favorite series of the past decade? What are our 2020 Paper Team goals? What gifts did Alex and Nick get each other?

PT164 2019 Paper Team Holiday Gift Exchange

Content

1 – Paper Team Announcements: Mixer, Mentorship, Showrunner Series (00:00:44)
2 – Holiday Question and Shout-outs (00:03:34)
3 – Paper Team 2019: A year in review (00:12:09)
4 – Best of 2019 (TV, episodes, movies, music, books) and shows of the decade (00:26:02)
5 – Paper Team Goals for 2020 (00:52:53)
Gift Exchange and Next Time On (00:56:48)

Links

The 2016 Paper Team Holiday Special (PT25)
Halloween on TV (PT64)
Disney ABC Writing Program ft. Kristi Shuton (PT130)
CBS Writers Mentoring Program ft. Jeanne Mau (PT131)
NBC Writers on the Verge ft. Karen Horne (PT132)
Warner Bros. Television Writers’ Workshop ft. Rebecca Windsor (PT133)
Comics and TV Writing: How to Bring the Page to Screen – Paper Team Live at WonderCon 2019 (PT129)
TV Formula 101: Building an Engine For Your Show (PT117)
Writing Samples and Preparing for TV Staffing ft. Liz Alper & Kai Wu (PT119)
Impostor Syndrome, Staffing Submissions and Commercials (PT149)
Comedy v. Drama II: Blurred Lines (PT143)
The Paper Team 150th Episode Special (PT150)
TV Writing Resources We Use (PT139)
Earning Your Way Into the Writers’ Room ft. Ning Zhou (PT135)
Common Mistakes to Avoid in Your TV Scripts (PT148)
The Boys (TV Show)
Watchmen (TV Show)
Fleabag
What We Do in the Shadows (TV Show)
“Bandsersnatch” (Black Mirror TV Movie)
“She Was Killed by Space Junk” (1×03 – Watchmen)
“Little Fear of Lightning” (1×05 – Watchmen)
“This Extraordinary Being” (1×06 – Watchmen)
“Twin Cities” (2×06 – Counterpart)
“Pandemonium” (3×12 – The Good Place)
“Episode 6” (2×06 – Fleabag)
Bloom
There’s Something About Movies
The Circle (TV Show)
“Cuz I Love You” by Lizzo
“Fear Inoculum” by Tool
“Good Luck, Kid” by Joseph
“new skin” by Vérité
Avengers: Endgame
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Parasite (2019 Movie)
“Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden
Showrunning Daybreak ft. Aron Eli Coleite (PT159)
Writing Heroes and Breaking Genres ft. Tamara Becher-Wilkinson (PT144)
Writing Classic Multicams to Cable Darlings ft. Dan O’Keefe (PT154)
Networking 201: Cold Contact, Queries and Etiquette (PT121)
TV Writing Incubators and the Evolution of Access (PT125)
TV Prose 201: Breaking Rules (PT156)
“What is the best UK show no one knows about?” – TV Calling

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Weaving Storylines: A/B/C Stories (PT53)

Weaving Storylines: A/B/C Stories (PT53)

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Update: PT53 transcript now available

Alex and Nick discuss the importance of weaving A, B and C stories in TV writing, and interesting ways of doing it in TV scripts.

Why is it important to cut between storylines in TV? When should you start and end each storyline? Which storylines should you spend more time on in your TV script? When should you only do a single A story? What are some noteworthy and unique formats for A/B/C plotlines?

Plus, we talk about where to read TV scripts.

The Paper Team become master-weavers…

SHOWNOTES

Content

Paper Scraps (FKA Odds-and-ends): Finding TV scripts (00:55)
1 – Why does TV have A/B/C stories? (03:51)
2 – Nuts and bolts of using A/B/C stories (10:27)
3 – Interesting and non-traditional uses of weaving A/B/C stories in TV (18:22)
Takeaways and Resources (32:22)

Links

Writers Guild Foundation Library
TV Calling Script Library
Zen134237
Lee Thomson Script Library
Simply Scripts
Daily Script
IMSDb
“What are A, B, and C stories in screenwriting?” – TV Calling
Team America Montage (Video)
“Marge vs. the Monorail” (4×12 – The Simpsons)
“Ozymandias” (5×14 – Breaking Bad)
“That’s My Dog” (4×05 – Six Feet Under)
“Eleven Angry Men and One Dick” (3×07 – 3rd Rock from the Sun)
Boomtown
Graham Yost
24 (TV Series)
“Kim vs. the Cougar: The Oral History of 24’s Most Infamous Scene” – Vulture
“My Bad” (1×06 – Scrubs)
Awake (TV Series)
Kyle Killen
“How Lost revolutionized storytelling” – TV Calling
“Walkabout” (1×04 – Lost)
“The Constant” (4×05 – Lost)
Watchmen
Slaughterhouse-Five
This Is Us
Oz (TV Series)
Carnivàle
“Bowling” (2×20 – Malcom in the Middle)
Sliding Doors
“Remedial Chaos Theory” (3×04 – Community)
“Split” (3×01 – Coupling)
“A Rickle in Time” (2×01 – Rick & Morty)

Resources

“Elephant Bucks” – Sheldon Bull
“Cracking the Sitcom Code” – The Atlantic
“Television Writing from the Inside Out” – Larry Brody
Plot Threads (TV Tropes)
Plot Parallel (TV Tropes)
Two Lines, No Waiting (TV Tropes)
Four Lines, All Waiting (TV Tropes)

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