Can We Save the Cat?

If you’re a screenwriter (or really, any kind of writer), you’ll listen to this podcast and wish you’d been brilliant enough to come up with this show concept. Spend 30 minutes pitching an idea with a couple of othe smart writers, then step back and see if it has legs? We all should be doing this! I pitch along as I listen. Fleshing out and evaluating ideas are under-valued skills for writers, but they’re just as important if not more important than the order of the words on the page, which so many writers agonize over. This podcast is inspiring. It will remind you of the magic at the heart of the writing process, the thrill and the despair of chasing a great idea.

As a writer, getting to listen to directors and producers highlight what draws them into a story is so helpful in terms of what to highlight in my own writing. And the puns. We love puns. And animation.