On The Page

Feb 07 2025 698 ep. 47 mins 722
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ON THE PAGE: Join professional script consultant Pilar Alessandra as she demystifies screenwriting and answers your questions about script craft and story.

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922. Finding Humor In the Darkness

Feb 07 2025 35 mins  
Political turmoil! Climate disasters! How can a comedy writer find the funny? Marc Warzecha, writer, comedian and director of The Sketch School, is here to help.

921. On Call With Tiffany Bratcher

Jan 31 2025 42 mins  
Writer Tiffany Bratcher worked her way up from writers PA to writer for the Amazon Prime series On Call and story editor for Chicago PD. Here she talks about writing procedural and half-hour drama, police ride-alongs and the need to always be pitching.

920. The Women’s List

Jan 24 2025 38 mins  
Writer Jan Kimbrough discusses The Women’s List, a nonprofit spotlighting production-ready scripts by women writers.

919. When Your Life Becomes a Movie

Jan 17 2025 28 mins  
Pilar and her husband Pat describe how their real life story felt like a movie story as they evacuated Los Angeles during the wildfires.

918. Playdate to Red Carpet

Jan 10 2025 38 mins  
Filmmaker, author, comedian Sari Karplus made a movie with her kids on a lark and ended up winning film festivals! Listen to her take on working with kids, how she wrote four childrens' books and how taking time to “look at the trees,” might just be the key to a work / life balance.

917. The Short

Jan 03 2025 30 mins  
Writer/director/educator Rae Shaw discusses her new book, The Short, emphasizing the many forms of short form storytelling and the different approaches that can be taken to writing it.

916. Logline Competition 2024: Part 2

Dec 28 2024 38 mins  
Pilar reads and gives feedback on the loglines that didn’t make the top fifteen lists for the 2024 Logline Contest.

915. Logline Competition 2024

Dec 27 2024 67 mins  
Pilar and Aadip read, evaluate and vote on feature and TV loglines sent in by listeners!

914. 2024 Writing Year in Review

Dec 20 2024 43 mins  
Career coach Lee Jessup returns to discuss the industry changes and writing trends of 2024 and shares what’s ahead for the new year.

913. “You Can’t Not Do It"

Dec 13 2024 38 mins  
Writer/Director Coley Sohn talks about the fun and frustration of writing and directing her independent movie “Mudkey,” which satirizes the right/left divide during one miserable day on a Florida island.