Inneresting 60
issue 60
July 17th, 2021
Learning About (and Learning From) the Nominees
Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
Steve Yockey (nominated for The Flight Attendant), sat down with Lauren Gunderson to discuss writing short plays. You can also check out this celebration of Yockey’s previous work writing for Supernatural.
Meredith Scardino (nominated for Girls5eva), talks to KCRW about making a fake CD of music to pitch her show’s girl group. She covers Y2K Nostalgia and more in this conversation with The Wrap.
W Magazine recently profiled Jen Statsky (nominated for Hacks), but if you’d like to listen to some long-form interviews with her:
She joins John for Episode 508 of Scriptnotes, “Creating a TV Comedy.”
The Season 3 premiere episode of The Good Place Podcast features Jen along with Jameela Jamil and host Mark Evan Jackson.
Maya Erskine (nominated for Pen15) sat down with co-star and co-creator Anna Konkle to talk with the WGA about their friendship and creative process. Erskine also talks to The Hollywood Reporter about self-criticism and self care.
If you only read one article on Jason Sudeikis (nominated twice for Ted Lasso), make it this story about an email he sent a journalist expressing sympathy and encouragement in dealing with his grief.
Highland How-To: Blogging, Markdown, & More
With the Modern Standard and Article templates, you can format your writing in Highland for projects like writing a blog post or drafting a newsletter.
Along with basic Markdown text formatting, Highland 2 also supports links and copying text out of your document as HTML.
You can check out our Knowledge Base to learn more about how to get the most out of Highland 2!
Other Cool Things
“Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties.” - How US Pop Culture was driven by people born before the Boom.
Sarah Miller shares why she’s finished writing about climate change, and how journalists should no longer need to persuade their audience it’s real.
Manu Moreale encourages people to build their own sites and their own connections with other people away from the pressures of algorithms.
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