BFL chats with Licensed Poetics Dear Friend Derek Dao about reading, writing, screenwriting, and if BFL needs therapy. How are TV scenes created? Why does movie-style writing NOT work for novels? When will Derek sell his million dollar story idea about being stuck in an endless tunnel? Listen and find out.
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Chapters
00:00 Music
00:46 Derek intro
03:06 BFL reading update
13:15 Derek reading update
24:41 What Derek and BFL write
32:28 Sad writers
34:08 Derek story pitch
43:29 Favourite screen tropes
47:25 What TV or movie would you make
Works mentioned
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
Derry Girls by Lisa McGee (TV)
Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Van der Meer
HP Lovecraft
Annihilation by Alex Garland (Film)
True Detective (TV)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto
The Dark Knight by Christopher Nolan (Film)
BoJack Horseman (TV)
Community by Dan Harmon (TV)
Rick and Morty (TV)
Solar Opposites (TV)
Black Mirror (TV)
Ghost-Birds by Nicolas Pizzolatto
Sex Education (TV)
Twin Peak (TV)
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
