In April I hosted a webinar titled "How To Tell A Great Story" where I discussed the meat and bones of storytelling, the fine line between a good story and a great story, and making your character's journey more emotionally compelling. This episode addresses questions you asked in our Q&A session that we didn't have time to answer. There's lots of great info here, make sure you watch.Show NotesFree Writing Webinar - https://michaeljamin.com/op/webinar-registration/Michael's Online Screenwriting Course - https://michaeljamin.com/courseFree Screenwriting Lesson - https://michaeljamin.com/freeJoin My Watchlist - https://michaeljamin.com/watchlistAutogenerated TranscriptMichael Jamin:No, you're getting notes and you're getting paid for it. That's okay. But if you have your own side projects, do what you want. But even still, you still have to know how to write. You still need to know story structures, cuz you, at the end of the day, you, you have to entertain your audience and your audience has expectations and you just typing to pat yourself on the back may not be entertaining for them. You're listening to Screenwriters Need to Hear This with Michael Jamin. Hey everyone, this is Michael Jamin. I'm back with Phil Hudson. Welcome back, Phil.Phil Hudson:What up,Michael Jamin:What up? We're doing another q and a once a month. We do these live webinars and we get a ton of questions that we can't possibly get through all of them. So this is a special podcast episode where we are gonna answer some of those questions we didn't get to. And obviously. If anybody has any questions, continue sending us send 'em. You can send 'em to support@michaeljamin.com. Or you could just, where else can they leave these questionsPhil Hudson:Filled? You can just join the webinar. I mean, the, the webinar's probably the best place to get your questions answered right away. Oh, forMichael Jamin:Sure.Phil Hudson:You set up at michaeljamin.com/webinar.Michael Jamin:Everyone should be on that. Everyone should be on that. Everyone should be on my free weekly newsletter, Michaeljamin.com/watchlist. Yeah, lots of good stuff. So let's begin, Phil. Yeah,Phil Hudson:It's good. We'll have you back, get through. Good to be here. You've got some awesome interviews in the queue, by the way, like some of these people in here. Pretty exciting. So ohMichael Jamin:Yeah, we got some good episodes.Phil Hudson:Yeah. stick around, make sure you subscribe, leave a review, all that good stuff. But let's get into the questions. So this is from, just to be clear, this is from your April webinar, which was how to write a Great Story.Michael Jamin:Okay.Phil Hudson:Okay. John Rios. Michael, I tend to doubt myself when thinking of a new idea for a TV show. What makes a good idea for a story?Michael Jamin:Yeah. Well that's, that's the question. I mean, that's, honestly, there's no easy answer for that. Well, that I literally teach in our screenwriting course. And if you wanna learn that, it's michaeljamin.com/course. What you need to know is, is there enough meat on the bone? You have an idea and you go, well, is is there enough meat on that bone to turn it into a half hour of television, or 60 minutes or a 90 minute movie? And, and that's what we talk about. We talk about knowing, because everything's conflict, everything's emotional conflict between two characters. And so yeah, that's, that's, I wish there's an easy way to talk about that, but that is, that's the, the bulk of the the course , it's a long lesson. It's not a tip, unfortunately, but it's, it's identifying Is there enough emotional weight to your idea?Phil Hudson:Yeah. In the webinar we just finished about an hour ago, one of the things you brought up is that you don't need a great idea. You need a good idea. You just need to be able to tell it really well. Right, right. And that's the other piece of what the course covers, so, yeah. And the course is not open for enrollment at any time, by the way. Yeah. You, it's