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#WGFestival 2016

The 2016 WGFestival occurred this past Saturday on 3rd and Fairfax.
Panels were pretty stacked with one about The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (with Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna), another with the room of Netflix’s Jessica Jones, a third with John August and Craig Mazin talking to Lawrence Kasdan, and a last one with DCTV writers from the Berlanti camp.

I was unfortunately unable to attend, but a few Twitter aficionados were in attendance.
On Sunday, I checked out the event hashtag to see what people tweeted about. This led me into a rabbit hole of compiling interesting/relevant tweets from folks in the audience (most notably from the super-duper Mike Roe).

Here is the curated #WGFestival list:


Granted, there aren’t that many, probably because people were busier listening than typing tweets.

Speaking of, I should probably get back to my spec…

Write on.

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