Get comfortable.. it's therapy time!

With screenwriting career coach Lee Jessup and writer-turned-therapist Phil Stark (Dude, Where's My Car?), we'll not only discuss the state of the industry but also the mindset needed to stay in the game.

Perhaps, the biggest question for survival is, “Are you a screenwriter or a storyteller?” We'll discuss the pitfalls of writers painting themselves into a corner by not at least exploring other writing avenues. Let's dispel the myth of “all I need is a manager” or “all I need is to sell one script.”

Yes, it’s hard out there, but it’s always been hard.

Lee and Phil will share advice on getting your mindset straight, and words on the page.

[Recorded October 8, 2024]

Resources:
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
Symposium: "Hard Truths: What Film and TV Reps Actually Want"
Symposium: "Town Hall: Insights Into the Post-Strike Film and TV Industry"

Lee Jessup is a career coach for screenwriters, specializing in guiding emerging and professional scribes toward long-standing and prolific screenwriting careers in both TV and feature writing. Additionally, she has provided consulting services to NBC International, the Universal Writers Program, the Final Draft Big Break Contest and Inevitable Foundation, and is an adjunct professor with the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts. Her one-on-one coaching clients include everyone from showrunners and studio writers to contest winners, TV writing fellows as well as writers just starting out. She is the author of the best selling books Breaking In: Tales From the Screenwriting Trenches and Getting It Write: An Insider's Guide to a Screenwriting Career. Site | X: @leejessup

Screenwriter (Dude, Where’s My Car?) turned therapist, Phil Stark, sees clients virtually from all over the state of California. He also writes about mental health and personal growth as experienced through talk therapy. His book Dude, Where’s My Car-tharsis? is available on Amazon. Site | X

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If you have not yet learned about the most prominent, accessible, and talented publishing expert there is—the amazing Jane Friedman—you're in for a treat ...

Pipeline exec Jeanne Veillette Bowerman conducts a 1-on-1 conversation with Jane for a deep dive into publishing, her recent, chaotic A.I. adventures, as well as answers our audience's burning questions.

If you're curious about the latest publishing insights or just want to watch two geeky writers chat, this one's for you.

[Recorded July 29, 2024]

Resources:
For the robust list of resources mentioned in this podcast, or to watch the video of the discussion, jump over to our Symposium site here.

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Southern Breeze Co-Regional Advisors of the acclaimed SCBWI answer your Kidlit questions.

If you are dabbling in KidLit, Co-Regional Advisors Lisa Lowe Stauffer and Melissa Miles want you to know about SCBWI.

The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) is the preeminent membership organization for children’s book creators. A global community of writers, illustrators, translators, publishers, librarians, advocates, and other industry professionals working to establish a more imaginative and inclusive world through the power of children’s literature. The SCBWI mission is to support the creation of an abundance of quality children’s books, so that young people everywhere have the books they need and deserve.

SCBWI offers free online workshops on a variety of topics as well as downloadable publications for those seeking both traditional or self-publishing information. Twice a year SCBWI hosts international conferences in NYC and L.A. or online.

The worldwide regions, including Southern Breeze (GA, AL, FL panhandle) are run by volunteers. At the regional level SCBWI offers members opportunities for networking and connection with fellow creatives, which may include online meetings, discussion groups, free or low-cost, in-person events, scholarships, book promotional opportunities, and contests.

[Recorded May 23, 2023]

Resources:

SCBWI
Southern Breeze SCBWI contest
Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest
Ruth's article "Best Practices for Writing 'Conferencing'"

As a child hiding under the covers to read book after book, Lisa Lowe Stauffer secretly longed to write fiction herself. She also wanted pet monkeys. But first she had to write her way through journalism, marketing, consulting, travel writing, and poetry.

Her work has appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Miami Herald, Literary Mama, Stories for Children, and numerous business websites, brochures, newsletters, press releases and magazine articles.

With the publication of Two By Two (Zonderkidz, 2018), both of her childhood wishes came true . . . although the pet monkeys are two small puppets who claim the book as their own. Check #monkeys2 on Twitter to see their adventures.

Site | Twitter: @LisaLStauffer | Instagram: @LLStauffer

Melissa Miles is a registered nurse and certified K-12 educator as well as a children's book author. She founded the nonprofit Superhero Success Foundation in 2019, and has published two picture books benefitting the nonprofit, which offers scholarships and donates books to children's hospitals. Melissa is a co-Regional Advisor for the Southern Breeze region of SCBWI and is represented by Kristen Terrette o

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