Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast
Hosted by Chas Fisher and Stu Willis and Mel and Chas and Mel Killingsworth and Stu · Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis
4.8from 140 ratings
- 142
- Episodes
- 24
- Transcribed
- 140
- Ratings
- Monthly
- Cadence
- 2014
- First episode
- 15K
- YouTube views
About Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast
Two emerging screenwriters – Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis – try to work out what makes great screenplays work. Discovering what it takes by analysing what successful writers put on the page.
- Publisher
- Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis
- Category
- arts · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Feb 2014
- Latest episode
- 1 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
24 of 142 episodes have a transcript.
1 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
DZ-130: Positive Character Arcs
27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Teaser: Positive Character Arcs
31 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
DZ-129: Steadfast Character Arcs - Agents of Change
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DZ-130: Positive Character Arcs
Published 1 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Well, I'm going to credit Emma as well. It was a behavioral psychology term, wasn't it? Yeah, operant conditioning. Thank you. I wasn't going to venture it. But the idea is we can create different emotional feelings depending on how the world punishes or rewards. And so you applied that really interestingly in the previous episode to go, we have a different emotional feeling depending whether the quote unquote punishments or rewards are subtractive or additive and either can be both, right? And I think what I'm pulling on is, Barbie, what puts Barbie on the journey, what the world is punishing her for by not engaging, by not having agency, by not being human, by not feeling, they're all subtractive. […]
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- YouTube views
- 15,469
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 114 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 26 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 91 / 100
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- Quality
- 93
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 97
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Who hosts Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast?
Chas Fisher and Stu Willis and Mel and Chas and Mel Killingsworth and Stu host the show. Published by Chas Fisher and Stuart Willis.
How often do new episodes come out?
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Does Draft Zero: a screenwriting podcast take guests?
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