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Ep222 - Josh Pate & Shannon Burke, Creators Netflix’s ‘Outer Banks’ Jun 19, 2020

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Shannon Burke is the author of ‘Safelight,’ ‘Black Flies,’ and ‘Into the Savage Country.’ Recently, he decided to partner with his screenwriting friends - Brothers Jonas and Josh Pate - to write a coming-of-age action adventure story. The idea of Outer Banks came from an article about a power outage on the Outer Banks. Pate said, “There was a photograph taken at dusk of these darkened mansions. It was just this evocative image that stayed with me.” Pate mentioned his fascination with this idea to Burke, and they started to unlock the story that would later become the Netflix series. “We wanted to do something based on memories from high school and that period of adolescence.” According to the description, the series is about, “a group of teenagers from the wrong side of the tracks stumble upon a treasure map that unearths a long buried secret.” In this interview, the writers discuss their fascination with 19th Century novels, how to cut the safety net to write professionally, lessons from Dennis Hopper, when to burn a bad novel, and why writers need resignation not confidence to build a career. If you enjoyed this interview, look for the print version on Creative Screenwriting’s website, and join millions of viewers for the new YouTube video essay series, Creative Principles, which dissects new films, series, and more: bit.ly/2FARJz5

Ep221 - Benjamin Hardy, Author ‘Personality Isn’t Permanent’ & ‘Willpower Doesn’t Work’ Jun 18, 2020

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For nearly a decade, Benjamin Hardy felt a lack of purpose in his life. But, thanks to a church mission, he started journaling, found an interest in psychology, and then decided to become an author (while raising a family and acquiring his doctorate), despite the odds of achieving this goal in traditional publishing. In 2015, Hardy started blogging because he knew it was a potential route to becoming an author. Through Medium, he built a massive following (literally becoming the #1 writer on the platform), and achieved his goal of finding an agent and publishing books in a traditional manner. In addition to his first book, ‘Willpower Doesn’t Work,’ the author has recently published ‘Personality Isn’t Permanent.’ In the book, he “draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality—a person’s consistent attitudes and behaviors—is innate and unchanging. Hardy liberates us from the limiting belief that our ‘true selves’ are to be discovered, and shows how we can intentionally create our desired selves and achieve amazing goals instead.” In this interview, Hardy discusses deliberate practice, why writers often avoid goal-setting, lessons from Ryan Holiday, how to reverse engineer goals to find a process, why writers must be authentic today, strategic ignorance, and why kids shouldn’t take the Myers-Briggs personalty test. If you enjoyed this interview, join millions of viewers for the new YouTube video essay series, Creative Principles, which dissects new films, series, and more: bit.ly/2FARJz5

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