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The Writers Panel

Andrew Miller, Chic Eglee, & Dana Gould

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

Movies, Hollywood, Tv & Film, Screenwriting, Writing, Tv

4.6799 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2012

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Miller (creator, The Secret Circle); Chic Eglee (adapter of Powers for FX; co-creator, Dark Angel; Walking Dead; The Shield); and Dana Gould (The Simpsons).

Recorded April 22, 2012.


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0:00.0

Last minute party, what will I bring them something unexpected?

0:06.2

Let's play scratch cards.

0:09.3

Trying to find something a bit different.

0:11.4

Why not add some play to Christmas with scratch cards from the National Lottery?

0:15.4

Pick them up in store now.

0:16.6

Please gift responsibly.

0:17.6

Rules and procedures apply.

0:18.5

Players and gifters must be 18 or over.

0:22.2

Hey everyone, it's Ben, and this podcast is brought to you by Audible.

0:26.4

Visit Audiblepodcast.com slash nerdist writers for a free audiobook download.

0:32.7

Audible has all kinds of terrific audiobooks, and they're just like podcasts, only a little longer. So check

0:39.0

them out. A few that I'd recommend, they, you know, there are, I love to read books about

0:44.4

TV and the TV business. And there are a lot of books about movies. And we know the TV is better

0:50.9

than movies. So here are a few that you can check out. Definitely check out

0:56.1

the War for Late Night, which is by Bill Carter. It's a terrific audio book. It's 15 hours long,

1:02.2

and it's worth all of that time. It's about the Conan and Leno Late Night War, and I would even

1:10.2

say it's better than the book that preceded it about the Letter and Leno late-night war. And I would even say it's better than the book that preceded it

1:12.5

about the Letterman-Lenno Late Night War called The Late Shift. So check out the war for late-night

1:18.3

on Audible. Another great book just kind of about writing is Stephen King's On Writing.

1:25.8

That's kind of the only book you need. It's not about the

1:28.7

mechanics of how to write. We're assuming you already know how to do that. But check out Stephen

1:33.0

King's book about writing, and if you're any kind of writer at all, you will recognize a lot of the

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