The Write Process

A podcast by UCLA Extension Writers' Program

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67 Episodes

  1. Nadiya Chettiar on Young Sheldon

    Published: 9/9/2022
  2. Pete Hsu on If I Were the Ocean, I’d Carry You Home

    Published: 8/25/2022
  3. Tembi Locke on Writing From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home

    Published: 8/12/2022
  4. Jean Chen Ho on 100 writing days, draft breadcrumbs, nice pens, revision lists, and Fiona and Jane

    Published: 1/7/2022
  5. Alexandra Alessandri on First Lines, Reading Picture Books Aloud, and Feliz New Year, Ava Gabriela!

    Published: 12/17/2021
  6. Jennifer J. Chow on Writing in a Pandemic, Outlining a Mystery, and Mimi Lee Cracks the Code

    Published: 12/3/2021
  7. Darrin L. Dortch on Pitching 3 Jokes, Punching Up Scenes on Set, Black Voices, and Claws

    Published: 11/19/2021
  8. Aminah Mae Safi on Finding the Core Story, Juggling Projects, and This Is All Your Fault

    Published: 11/5/2021
  9. Kenji C. Liu on Frankensteining Poems, Collections as Mixtapes, and Monsters I Have Been

    Published: 10/22/2021
  10. Paria Hassouri on Discovering the Writer Within, Journaling, Finding an Agent, & Found in Transition

    Published: 10/6/2021
  11. Christina Strain on Writing for Herself, Managers, Goonies, and Finding O’Hana

    Published: 9/24/2021
  12. Julie Wong on Writing Covid, Sneaking Food onto Set, Expanding Representation, and Grey’s Anatomy

    Published: 9/9/2021
  13. Elle Johnson on Researching Memoir, Weaving Story Threads, Finding Theme, and The Officer’s Daughter

    Published: 8/26/2021
  14. Tod Goldberg on Gangsters, Human-Made Seas, Short Fiction Tricks, and The Low Desert

    Published: 8/12/2021
  15. Melissa Rosenberg on Adapting Comics, Creative Control, and Showrunning Marvel’s Jessica Jones

    Published: 7/30/2021
  16. Brian Shin on the Medical Procedural, Why Representation Matters, and The Good Doctor.

    Published: 12/4/2020
  17. Michael Werwie on Writing Against Genre and Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

    Published: 11/13/2020
  18. Cindy Lin on Stealing Time, Polishing Drafts, Uncovering Solutions and The Twelve

    Published: 10/30/2020
  19. Aatif Rashid on Novel Structure, the Right Title, Small Presses, and Portrait of Sebastian Khan

    Published: 10/16/2020
  20. Wally Rudolph on Photographic Inspiration, the Decline of Whiteness, and Mighty, Mighty

    Published: 9/18/2020

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All writing is a tightrope walk from where the idea originates to the moment a book, movie, or TV episode emerges in the world. In The Write Process, Charles Jensen, director of the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, asks writing instructors and students who’ve walked the tightrope and come out the other side to talk about their process. Each episode tells the story of how one writer took one project from concept to completion, showcasing the various—and varied—paths we take when we follow one good idea all the way home.