In Episode 4: Emotional Beats (Part 1) Jeannetta and Brittany welcome Kara Smith to The Write Attention podcast!

Kara is a Bermudan-British screenwriter based in the UK who has worked on the HULU drama series BLACK CAKE, the UK’s highly acclaimed streaming series: HBO/Sky’s horror-comedy THE BABY, Netflix’s new genre series LOCKWOOD & CO from Joe Cornish and Edgar Wright, as well as Amazon’s ANANSI BOYS created by Neil Gaiman, among other productions. In the first part of this conversation, Kara, Brittany and Jeannetta discuss the cross-sections between screenwriting and fiction/poetry including how screenwriters view emotions in writing and whether you should write about what you know.



Show Notes

1. La Maison Baldwin, https://www.lamaisonbaldwin.org/

2. Irenosen Okojie, https://www.irenosenokojie.com/.

3. Save the Cat by Blake Snyder, https://savethecat.com/

4. “Phenomenal Women” by Maya Angelou can be found here: ​​https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48985/phenomenal-woman

5. Mad Men, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804503/

6. “The Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” by Audre Lorde can be found in Sister Outsider