Episodios

  • One Battle After Another: What’s your theme?

    One Battle After Another: What’s your theme?
    Oct 17 2025
    In this episode of the Write Your Screenplay Podcast, Jacob Krueger analyzes Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, revealing how theme, character development, and structure shape a screenplay’s emotional impact. Learn practical rewriting strategies, how to uncover hidden stories, and why authentic character motivation is key to crafting scripts that resonate deeply with audiences.
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    1 h y 4 m
  • The Girlfriend: Game and Series Engine

    The Girlfriend: Game and Series Engine
    Oct 3 2025
    In this Write Your Screenplay Podcast episode, Jacob Krueger analyzes Amazon’s The Girlfriend to explore how the “game of the scene” fuels a lasting series engine. Learn why mirrored perspectives, foils, and escalation drive audience engagement—and what happens when writers break the very patterns that hold a show together. Perfect for writers seeking practical screenwriting tools for TV structure.
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    42 m
  • Weapons: Should You Write a Horror Movie?

    Weapons: Should You Write a Horror Movie?
    Sep 19 2025
    Thinking about writing a horror movie as your way into Hollywood? Horror is an $8.5 billion genre hungry for new voices and original stories. In this episode of the Write Your Screenplay Podcast, Jacob Krueger analyzes Zach Cregger’s Weapons to reveal why the most powerful horror films are built not on gore or jump scares, but on character dynamics, emotional journeys, and human struggles that resonate with audiences everywhere. Learn how metaphor, allegory, and authentic voice can elevate horror, action, or comedy—and why horror remains one of the most exciting genres for screenwriters today.
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    23 m
  • K-Pop Demon Hunters: 3 Ways to Elevate Your Writing

    K-Pop Demon Hunters: 3 Ways to Elevate Your Writing
    Sep 5 2025
    In this episode of the Write Your Screenplay Podcast, Jacob Krueger explores how K-Pop Demon Hunters transforms a wild premise into a moving story. You’ll discover 3 tools every writer can use to elevate their screenwriting: research that makes your world culturally rich and emotionally grounded, themes that turn spectacle into resonance, and characters whose voices and actions carry real emotional weight. Whether you’re working on your first script or refining your tenth, this episode will show you how to bring depth, voice, and authenticity to your writing—without losing the joy of your wildest ideas.
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    29 m
  • Opus: ‘Elevated’ Horror and Allegory

    Opus: ‘Elevated’ Horror and Allegory
    Aug 22 2025
    In this episode of the Write Your Screenplay Podcast, Jacob Krueger breaks down Mark Anthony Green’s Opus to reveal how elevated horror and screenwriting allegory can emerge organically from what already exists on the page. Through deep analysis of character wants, political themes, and mirrored choices, you'll learn how to create meaning without exposition, use your first image to establish emotional stakes and tone, and develop structure that resonates from the inside out. Perfect for writers seeking to craft screenplays that are both emotionally grounded and commercially viable.
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    37 m
  • Hypnosis for Writers: Break Through Writers Block with Jacob Krueger

    Hypnosis for Writers: Break Through Writers Block with Jacob Krueger
    Aug 8 2025
    Learn a powerful self-hypnosis technique to break through past trauma and writer’s and more deeply connect to your characters and your voice as a writer. Jacob Krueger shares life-changing tools drawn from hypnosis, NLP and neuroscience.
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    37 m
  • Sinners: Theme, Tone & the Sea Change

    Sinners: Theme, Tone & the Sea Change
    Jul 25 2025
    Explore how sea change, bifurcated characters, and mythic symbolism power the structure and politics of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners. Join us for a Special Thursday Night Writes! Our Happy Hour of Writing Exercises with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET, RSVP: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/free-writing-classes-thursday-night-writes/
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    41 m
  • Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?

    Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?
    Jul 11 2025
    This episode pulls it all together, with a deep dive into the structure of Adolescence Episode 4 and how it fits into the overall structure and series engine of Adolescence and how to know if your project should be a Limited Series. Join us for a Special Thursday Night Writes! Our Happy Hour of Writing Exercises with Jake every Thursday night at 7:00 pm ET, RSVP: https://www.writeyourscreenplay.com/free-writing-classes-thursday-night-writes/
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    1 h y 6 m