Plotpoints Podcast Episode 314, 2025.07.25
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SCRIPTWRITING TALK AND MORE!
Welcome To Plotpoints Podcast!
Mark Sevi
Show Notes July 25, 2025 Episode #314
Guest co-host: Christopher Stires
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CLASSES and SEMINARS
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Final Draft – Articles by Mark Sevi for Final Draft
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CURIOUS? CONFUSED? CONFOUNDED?
Scriptwriting can be all that and more. Thankfully, there are ways to make the
process of putting a script together easier.
This book is one of those tools.
Thirty years of professional writing experience has gone into making the writing of a script direct and simpler.
Professional writer and writing teacher Mark Sevi presents a step-by-step way to get started and
finish your script.
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A Scriptwriting Manual for All Writers!
SHOW DETAILS
00:00:00 INTRO
Podcast theme music by Mark Sevi, Interstitial Music by Maxko
00:00:00 USELESS CHATTER!
Seminars and Classes start soon
00:2:30 WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN WATCHING?
#traveler #scandal #untamed
00:05:00 WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN WORKING ON?
#scripts #article #seminars #classes
00:08:00 OUR EMMY PICKS
Outstanding drama series
- “Andor” (Disney+)
- “The Diplomat” (Netflix)
- “The Last of Us” (HBO Max)
- “Paradise” (Hulu)
- “The Pitt” (HBO Max)
- “Severance” (Apple TV+)
- “Slow Horses” (Apple TV+)
- “The White Lotus” (HBO Max)
Outstanding comedy series
- “Abbott Elementary” (ABC)
- “The Bear” (FX)
- “Hacks” (HBO Max)
- “Nobody Wants This” (Netflix)
- “Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu)
- “Shrinking” (Apple TV+)
- “The Studio” (Apple TV+)
- “What We Do in the Shadows” (FX)
Outstanding limited or anthology series
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- “Adolescence” (Netflix)
- “Black Mirror” (Netflix)
- “Dying for Sex” (FX)
- “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” (Netflix)
- “The Penguin” (HBO Max)
Outstanding lead actress in a drama series
- Kathy Bates, “Matlock”
- Sharon Horgan, “Bad Sisters”
- Britt Lower, “Severance”
- Bella Ramsey, “The Last of Us”
- Keri Russell, “The Diplomat”
Outstanding lead actor in a drama series
- Sterling K. Brown, “Paradise”
- Gary Oldman, “Slow Horses”
- Pedro Pascal, “The Last of Us”
- Adam Scott, “Severance”
- Noah Wyle, “The Pitt”
Outstanding lead actress in a comedy series
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- Uzo Aduba, “The Residence”
- Kristen Bell, “Nobody Wants This”
- Quinta Brunson, “Abbott Elementary”
- Ayo Edebiri, “The Bear”
- Jean Smart, “Hacks”
Outstanding lead actor in a comedy series
- Adam Brody, “Nobody Wants This”
- Seth Rogen, “The Studio”
- Jason Segel, “Shrinking”
- Martin Short, “Only Murders in the Building”
- Jeremy Allen White, “The Bear”
00:12:00 RANT
00:16:00 QUOTE / BUH BYE
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MARK SEVI BIO:
Mark Sevi is a professional screenwriter and producer, and screenwriting teacher. He has sold 34 scripts, 20 made into films. He teaches scriptwriting in Southern California. He is also founder of the Orange County Screenwriters Association.
Mark is repped by legal-eagle Wayne Alexander, ANLF.COM
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Mark also has even books published on Amazon: LINK
Christopher Stires is a novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter living in Southern CA.
He has four novels currently in print. PALADIN’S JOURNEY, REBEL NATION, DARK LEGEND, and THE INHERITANCE (Winner of the 2003 Dream Realm Award for Horror) are available from Zumaya Publications (http://www.zumayapublications.com/). PALADIN’S JOURNEY: SABIAN (the sequel to PALADIN’S JOURNEY) will soon be released by Zumaya.
STARBEAST (a reprint/retitle of TO THE MOUNTAIN OF THE BEAST) will soon be released by World Castle Publishing (http://www.worldcastlepublishing.com/home.html). He has had more than 70 short stories and articles appear in publications in the United States, Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Greece, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
With co-writer, Mark Sevi, he has had one screenplay optioned. He is a member of Facebook and Goodreads.
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