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Dog!

Hey folks, it's me, Ben Blacker, the creator and host of this writer's panel podcast.

Hope you're all doing all right with the world being a monstrous hellscape right now.

You may have noticed that we've slowed releases of the podcast for the time being.

Honestly, it's just too difficult to muster up the wherewithal

to record them. I think, like a lot of you, I'm having trouble focusing. I'm having trouble

wanting to do anything that doesn't make a difference in the world. And much as I enjoy the

conversations, much as I love talking with writers about writing, it's hard enough right now

getting my writing work done. So I'm trying to lay off the things that take up too much attention

or planning. But I do have some new episodes for you, which I think are really interesting.

Back in March, my friend Martha McGee reached out to say she's teaching a class at DePaul University

in Chicago called Topics

of Television, The Showrunner. The class takes a look at different showrunners, their interest,

styles, and how they've contributed to pushing television storytelling forward.

And Martha asked if I knew anyone who might want to answer questions from the students

about showrunning and TV storytelling. I thought this was a great opportunity to get to answer questions from the students about show running and TV storytelling.

I thought this was a great opportunity to get some real questions from real new writers,

folks who want to do this professionally, who want to be in television, but maybe don't have an

idea of where to begin. The kinds of questions I really haven't been able to ask since we stopped

doing the live episodes,

the ones we, you know, we would get those questions from audience members.

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