How Do You Do? Podcast
How Do You Do? Podcast
Ben Hannani
Sara Saedi, how do you write YA books and TV scripts?
42 minutes Posted Oct 11, 2020 at 8:00 am.
Sara Saedi is an author of YA novels (Never Ever, The Lost Kids) and a memoir (Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card), as well as a TV writer (credits include CW's Katy Keene and iZombie, ABC's Grand Hotel).  She sits down with Ben to discuss how she figured out the structure for her memoir
; how her background as a creative executive has affected her process as a writer
; and how she writes for T.V.
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Sara Saedi is an author of YA novels (Never Ever, The Lost Kids) and a memoir (Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card), as well as a TV writer (credits include CW's Katy Keene and iZombie, ABC's Grand Hotel).  She sits down with Ben to discuss how she figured out the structure for her memoir (10:54); how her background as a creative executive has affected her process as a writer (20:45); and how she writes for T.V. (33:57). 
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Sara: Positive psychology
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