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The Writers Panel

Pendleton Ward, Martin Gero and Kent Osborne

The Writers Panel

Ben Blacker

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

4.6799 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2012

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

Pendleton Ward (creator, Adventure Time); Martin Gero (creator, The LA Complex); Kent Osborne (head writer, Adventure Time; Spongebob; Flapjack).

Recorded October 21, 2012.


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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's me, Ben, and welcome back. I hope you had a good Thanksgiving. Thanks for downloading this podcast again. We are now releasing every episode on Tuesdays. So I don't know if you need to update something or what, but new episodes of this podcast will be coming out every Tuesday. We just have a couple more for this year, and then we'll be taking a few weeks off

0:20.9

and return in January. In this episode, which was a really fun discussion with Martin

0:28.9

Garrow, who created the LA Complex, which is an awesome show which you should go watch,

0:34.6

Kent Osborne and Pendleton Ward. Penn is the creator of Adventure Time and Kent is the head writer.

0:40.3

We had our first time in which someone brought visual aids. Penn brought some really neat stuff,

0:50.3

kind of story generating exercises that they do, which we showed, and which you can

0:58.0

see on our new official nerdist writers panel website, which is ben blacker writes.com.

1:06.7

That's my name, Ben Blacker, just like it sounds, W-R-I-T-E-S dot com.

1:14.0

And I'll throw that stuff up that Penn sent me so you can check those out.

1:19.1

He does talk through them a little bit on the podcast.

1:21.1

So if you're listening in your car, don't worry about it.

1:24.1

He talks through them in a very amusing way.

1:26.7

This website is something I've been meaning to do

1:28.7

for a while. It's why I had some of you awesome fans do transcriptions for me, where I'll just

1:34.8

kind of put up stuff that I found interesting from the panels or things that I learned from doing

1:40.6

these panels or from my own experiences writing for television and the stage and what have you.

1:47.6

So check out benblacko-rights.com. Let me know what you think of it. It is obviously a work in progress.

1:53.9

I really just put it up to put up these. The impetus was these Penn Ward exercises.

1:59.7

So I hope you enjoy those. but I'll be updating it as

2:02.9

often as I have time. Now that Jane Espinson is not regularly updating her blog, which was an

2:09.6

invaluable resource, maybe, you know, we can we can pick up the slack a little bit. So I hope you

2:16.7

guys enjoy that.

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