The Screenwriters Network Podcast: A Screenwriting Podcast for Emerging Writers! - Interview with AFF Horror Winning Screenwriter Alex Reid (Grachamoncha / Goat)

Interview with AFF Horror Winning Screenwriter Alex Reid (Grachamoncha / Goat)

12/20/19 • 38 min

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The Screenwriters Network Podcast: A Screenwriting Podcast for Emerging Writers!

This month Smish meets screenwriter Alex Reid - @Alex (Grachamoncha) - who recently won at the Austin Film Festival. Alex talks about his approach to writing, winning at the AFF and what’s next for him. And the one piece of advice Smish gave him in his winning script!

Smish and Alex discuss:

How to conduct yourself professionally online (3:15)
How Alex wrote his AFF-winning script (7:57)
Alex’s approach to writing consistently (8:40)
Snagging a manager (17:57)
What general meetings are and what he’s doing to prep for them (23:03)
Screenwriters Network Discord Server Meetup at AFF (30:23)

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VIP members get a bonus 15 minutes of questions where Smish and Alex discuss video games, his deep connection to Phillip the Goat, Wikipedia, and more. Alex even brings Smish to tears. Don’t miss it!

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More about Alex

Website http://www.alexdreid.com Twitter http://www.twitter.com/alexdreid

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This month Smish meets screenwriter Alex Reid - @Alex (Grachamoncha) - who recently won at the Austin Film Festival. Alex talks about his approach to writing, winning at the AFF and what’s next for him. And the one piece of advice Smish gave him in his winning script!

Smish and Alex discuss:

How to conduct yourself professionally online (3:15)
How Alex wrote his AFF-winning script (7:57)
Alex’s approach to writing consistently (8:40)
Snagging a manager (17:57)
What general meetings are and what he’s doing to prep for them (23:03)
Screenwriters Network Discord Server Meetup at AFF (30:23)

Join the Discord Server
Interact with over 5000 screenwriters around the world, including Alex!
http://thescreenwritersnetwork.com Get Exclusive Extras

To become a VIP on Patreon and get ad-free episodes 2 weeks earlier than the general public plus exclusive bonus audio content: http://www.patreon.com/screenwritersnetwork

More about Alex

Website http://www.alexdreid.com Twitter http://www.twitter.com/alexdreid

Did you enjoy the podcast? Let us know by leaving a review on iTunes! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/screenwriters-network-podcast-screenwriting-podcast/id1488865880

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Interview with Hit List Screenwriter Mark Mazur (nqm)

In this first episode of the Screenwriters Network podcast, Smish interviews Emmy award WINNING writer and director Mark Mazur, also known as @nqm in the Discord server! They discuss his two horror short films on ALTER, what’s happening with his Nicholl semi-finalist feature screenplay RETROGRADE (now on the 2019 Hit Lit), his EMMY award, networking with members from the server, and much more. VIP’s can listen to an additional 10 minutes of questions with Mark, where they discuss football, ramen, his favorite moderator and his PROUDEST accomplishment.

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Two Devices Connected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZdnkBZHp8Q

Latency: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIJdJ6Fgjw0

Please note this is our first episode and we're still figuring things out as we go. Interviews are recorded directly in Discord using a Discord bot.
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Next Episode

Interview with Viral NoSleep Screenwriter Chris Hicks (writechriswrite)

This month Smish meets screenwriter Chris Hicks - - @WriteChrisWrite -- who coined the phrase “you can’t polish a turd until you shit it out”. Words to live by! Chris talks about everything from optioning over a dozen short scripts to going viral on the nosleep subreddit. He is an Austin Film Festival semi-finalist and is featured on the 2018 SMISH LIST.

Smish and Chris discuss:

Titlepalooza - (4:02)
Optioning Shorts - (6:45)
Nosleep subreddit (11:47)
Austin Film Festival (27:57)
AFF server meetup (36:27)
Picking a Genre (41:37)

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VIP members get a bonus 20 minutes of premium content where Smish and Chris discuss cute puppies, Chris’s favorite movies, dad jokes, and Chris even lets on his secret to making a million dollars screenwriting in just three easy steps (just kidding?) This extra stuff really slaps! You heard? It slaps!

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More about Chris:

Website: http://writechriswrite.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/WriteChrisWrite

Ask Smish!

Smish answers your questions! Ask her about anything-- screenwriting advice, life advice, the server, the podcast, even questions about smish! Just go to https://anchor.fm/screenwritersnetwork and hit “Send Voice Message”. Make it short (30 seconds or less) and be sure to say your Discord username! You might just get featured on an upcoming episode of the show!

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