Welcome to Creative Block! This week's guest is Sammie Crowley! Sammie is a writer who has worked on The Ghost and Molly Magee, Loud House, DC Super Hero Girls, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
Along the way, we talk about finding a community of TV writers in college, her journey to becoming a writer for cartoons, some lessons she learned from My Little Pony, and so much more!
While we talk, we doodle on a Google jamboard, where we draw from prompts we got on Twitter. Subscribe to our channel to hear more stories of other animation professionals!
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Editing by Clemence Briat ► https://twitter.com/clem_n_m
Produced by Malik Gayle ► https://twitter.com/MalikGayle
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Theme song by Louie Zong ► https://twitter.com/everydaylouie
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0:00 Intro
1:58 Childhood and college
13:41 Brainstorming
16:32 Post-graduation projects
18:58 Kady Fanfiction
20:50 From fanfic to spec spript
25:01 Good twists
27:33 First gig
34:10 Freelance vs staff writer
50:54 Pushing an idea
54:26 Typical day in writer's room
57:18 Different stages of a script
1:08:11 Favorite episode
1:11:53 Making a character appealing
1:21:33 Writing interesting episodes on a long show
1:33:19 Fledging idea to draft
1:37:49 Creative block
1:43:01 Lessons from MLP
1:45:12 Shenanigans
