Write Your Screenplay Podcast
1) One Battle After Another: What’s your theme?
Explore the link between theme, character, and structure in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another with Jacob Krueger’s screenplay analysis.
2) The Girlfriend: Game and Series Engine
Learn how The Girlfriend builds and breaks its series engine. Jacob Krueger shows how “game of the scene” fuels TV writing, structure, and audience tension.
3) Weapons: Should You Write a Horror Movie?
Want to know the key to elevated horror? Jacob Krueger reveals how true genre elevation emerges from mining the thematic and emotional depth already present in your screenplay.
4) K-Pop Demon Hunters: 3 Ways to Elevate Your Writing
Want to know the key to elevated horror? Jacob Krueger reveals how true genre elevation emerges from mining the thematic and emotional depth already present in your screenplay.
5) Opus: ‘Elevated’ Horror and Allegory
Want to know the key to elevated horror? Jacob Krueger reveals how true genre elevation emerges from mining the thematic and emotional depth already present in your screenplay.
6) Hypnosis for Writers: Break Through Writers Block with Jacob Krueger
Hypnosis for Writers: Break Through Writers Block with Jacob Krueger Recorded live during a Thursday Night Writes session, this episode features Jacob Krueger as he unpacks three major forms of writer...Show More
7) Sinners: Theme, Tone & the Sea Change
Sinners: Theme, Tone & the Sea Change Jacob Krueger takes listeners inside Sinners, Ryan Coogler’s genre-defying vampire allegory, to explore how structural shifts, mythic symbolism, and character...Show More
8) Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?
Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series? In the final episode of our Adolescence series, Jacob Krueger explores the creative opportunities and constraints of the limited series forma...Show More
9) Adolescence Episode 3: Adolescence, The Wire and Pattern Based Engine
Adolescence Episode 3: Adolescence, The Wire & Pattern Based Engine In this episode, Jacob Krueger explores how Episode 3 of Adolescence radically shifts focus from the core cast to a new character a...Show More
10) Adolescence Episode 2: Dialectical Screenwriting
Adolescence Episode 2: Dialectical Screenwriting In this episode, Jacob Krueger explores how the second installment of Adolescence deepens the series’ thematic complexity by introducing a dialectical...Show More