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The Writers Panel

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The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Head writer Shelly Altman and co-head writer Chris Van Etten of the long-running (55 years and counting!) daytime soap opera are joined by GH super-fan Danielle Sanchez-Witzel (The Carmichael Show; LA>Vegas) to discuss the nuts and bolts of writing a daily hour-long drama.


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0:00.0

Now Enteringnerdist.com

0:04.8

Welcome back to the writers panel, and hey, happy new year.

0:09.3

It's me, Ben Blacker, the creator and moderator of the podcast.

0:12.5

As you know, I created the show because I wanted to talk to other writers about the business and process of writing.

0:17.8

I've had almost a thousand writers on the show, so please check the archives to find

0:22.1

more writers and more TV shows that interest you. I myself have written a bunch of things

0:27.0

with my writing partner, Ben Acker, so not just myself. We were on the writing staff of Supernatural,

0:34.8

of Puss and Bootsots on a few other programs.

0:41.2

Last year, though, 2017 was a weird year.

0:44.5

We did a lot of writing, but very little of it for TV.

0:48.6

We're out pitching a couple of projects, but I'm not allowed to talk about those yet.

0:51.7

But here are some things you can run out and buy if you want to support me,

0:53.1

and if you want to support this show.

1:01.0

And supporting me is supporting this show. Akker and I wrote two Star Wars one-shot comics tied into The Last Jedi, the terrific new Star Wars movie. One of these is about the salt-covered planet of Crate,

1:06.8

which you see in the movie. It is stunningly illustrated by Mike Mayhew, who's done a bunch of

1:11.4

Star Wars work for Marvel. There are a few pages in there that are among my very favorite

1:16.5

comic book work that Ben and I have done. And that's out now. You can get that from your local

1:22.4

comic book shop or at Comicsology. And on January 31st, our story about Benicio del Toro's character, DJ, is being

1:29.4

released. It's penciled by Kev Walker and shows how DJ wound up in jail on the casino planet

1:35.5

in The Last Jedi. Both of those are from Marvel. Both of those, get them in your comic book

1:40.4

store or on comicsology. And if you want more Star Wars from Acker and Me, you can check

1:45.0

out our young adult series of novels called Join the Resistance. It's about a bunch of kids who join

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