Writing Tips From The Movies With John Gaspard
The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers
Joanna Penn
4.8 • 745 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
How can you exploit the unique in your stories, as well as amp up the conflict? John Gaspard gives writing and creative business tips based on movies and TV. In the intro, Meta launches Threads, the new Twitter-like app — you can follow me @jfpennauthor; Possible Podcast episode with Ethan Mollick; Moonshots and Mindsets podcast […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Creative Pen podcast. I'm Joanna Penn, thriller author and creative entrepreneur, |
| 0:09.0 | bringing you interviews, inspiration and information on writing, publishing options and marketing ideas for your book. |
| 0:17.0 | You can find the episode show notes, your free author blueprint and lots more information at |
| 0:23.0 | TheCreativepen.com. |
| 0:25.5 | And that's Pen with a double N. |
| 0:27.7 | And here's the show. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello, creatives. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm Joanna Penn. |
| 0:34.0 | And this is episode number 702 of the podcast. |
| 0:39.6 | And it is Friday the 7th of July 2023 as I record this. In today's show I'm talking to John Gaspard about writing tips from the |
| 0:47.3 | movies, how he started out in low-budget movies and saw the parallels to indie publishing, so |
| 0:53.5 | jumped right in. |
| 0:54.9 | And his craft tips around exploiting the unique, using conflict in different ways, writing |
| 1:00.5 | endings and cliffhangers, as well as making sure you read and understand the fine print |
| 1:05.5 | of contracts. |
| 1:07.1 | And of course, tips for getting your book made into a movie or TV show. |
| 1:11.6 | So that's coming up in the interview section. |
| 1:16.9 | So in publishing and book marketing news, well the big news this week has been the launch of threads, |
| 1:23.5 | which is Meta's competitor app to Twitter. |
| 1:26.8 | So I have been, and of course this could turn into |
| 1:29.6 | book marketing news. Now, I've been on Twitter since 2009 and have remained on it, even as things |
| 1:36.8 | have clearly become difficult in many ways. Now, I still get most of my AI information from |
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