249 | Screenwriting & Social Media: How Being Online Can Help Your Career

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

In this special roundtable, we’re joined by three working screenwriters — Nic Curcio, Kristen Tepper, and Julia Yorks — who have each built successful writing careers while also growing authentic, engaged followings online. We talk candidly about the growing pressure for writers to maintain a social media presence. From expanding your network to attracting opportunities, social media can help. But it can also complicate your creative process, affect your mental health, and make the work feel secondary. This conversation is an honest look at that tension — and how, with the right mindset, social media can become less of a burden and more of a creative outlet that reflects your voice, supports your goals, and connects you to a writing community in an often isolating industry. --------------- Check out Nic, Kristen, and Julia's social accounts below... Nic Curcio Instagram: @nicolascurcio | TikTok: @nicolascurciowriter Kristen Tepper Instagram: @kristentepper | TikTok: @teppertoks Julia Yorks Instagram: @juliayorks | TikTok: @juliayorks --------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.4	Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Lorian McKenna, and today we're doing a roundtable with three multi-hyphenates,
0:42.5	Nick Kercio, Kristen Tepper, and Julia Yorks.
0:45.4	In addition to writing, they have amassed a large and loyal following on social media,
0:49.9	each of them, not together, separately.
0:52.7	So they are going to be talking about how they've been able to
0:55.2	carve out space for themselves online to sustain their creative lives and even open doors in
1:01.1	the industry, which I'm really excited to talk about. So Nick Curcio is an LA-based screenwriter
1:07.0	and graduate of USC's MFA film and TV program. He wrote a movie for Sony Pictures
1:12.2	animation called Goat that hits theaters in February 26 and has also written on live action
1:17.8	franchises like The Magic School Bus, Love for Universal. On the digital side, Nick regularly
1:23.8	posts on Instagram at Nicholas Curseo and TikTok at Nicholas Curseo writer about the
1:31.0	craft of writing and has partnered with companies like Neon A24 and Paramount Remote Films.
1:37.3	He also hosts The Hollywood Hang, a podcast about the highs, lows, and the hell knows of the film
1:43.0	industry alongside Kristen Tepper,
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