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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: The Art of Adaptation
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Jake breaks down the screenplay adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and the art of adapting a play for the screen.
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The Queen’s Gambit: Writing the Limited Series
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Jake breaks down the many ways The Queen’s Gambit flaunts the traditional rules of structure, and shows you how to overcome friction points in your own writing.

Keep Your New Year’s Writing Resolutions
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Keeping your New Year’s resolutions as a writer begins with learning to think a little more like your characters. The person you are today is not going to be the person you are at the end of the screenplay.

Pitch Festivus: Pitching Tips from Jake & the Faculty
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Jake and his world renowned faculty discuss their best tips on how to pitch your script without sell your soul.

Engineering Your TV Drama Pilot w/ Ron McCants
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Jake Krueger and Ron McCants discuss how to create the balance between thinking about your TV Drama pilot as an engineer, and getting your voice and the thing you need to say on the page.

Curious About Playwriting? A Conversation with Lisa D’Amour
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Jacob Krueger interviews Pulitzer Prize Finalist and Tony Nominee Lisa D’Amour about playwriting and its correlations to screenwriting.

The Spiritual Side of Screenwriting: A Conversation with Jenna Laurenzo
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Jacob Krueger interviews actor/director/writer and JKS alum about her smash hit film Lez Bomb and the spiritual side of screenwriting.

Ozark pt. 2: What’s Wrong with Exposition
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Jacob Krueger does a deep analysis of Ozark, Season 1, Episode 8, to show both the dangers of exposition and how to approach it in your own TV writing.

Ozark pt 1: Theme, Engine, and Secondary Structure
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Jacob Krueger analyzes the pilot of Ozark and shows the link between theme, hook, engine and secondary structure.

Comic Book Writing: An Interview with Ron Marz
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In his second podcast about the film Parasite, Jacob Krueger discusses how thematic exploration not only informs the tone and structure of your screenwriting, but allows your story to unfold more naturally and take your audience on a powerful journey that can help them see others through more understanding eyes.

13th: Structure, Theme and Writing For Social Change
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Jacob Krueger analyzes 13th and how to use theme to focus the political power of your script.

Tiger King PART 2: Genre, Structure, Hook and Engine
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Jacob Krueger analyzes the structure of Joe Exotic’s journey in Tiger King to demonstrate the concepts of structure, genre, hook, and engine in screenwriting and TV writing.

Tiger King PART 1: What Gets You Hot?
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Jacob Krueger analyzes both the ethical shortcomings of Tiger King and the valuable lessons the structure of Tiger King holds for writers of all genres. Learn what made the ethically complicated Joe Exotic such a likable main character, and how to use the concept of genre to make an audience fall in love with your screenplay.