<![CDATA[ON THE WRITERS BLOCK]]>Every writer starts somewhere. In a notebook. A blank page. A room nobody's watching. Hell, maybe even listening to a podcast!

On The Writers Block is a room, opened just for you.

We sit down with the writers shaping television and film, the ones you know and the ones you should, and we talk about the real work. Not the highlight reel. The rewrites. The rejection. The rooms that didn't want them until they did.

No gatekeeping. No pretending the path was clean. Just the truth about what it takes to build a career in this industry, one page at a time.

This is for the writer still figuring it out. And the one who's been in the room for twenty years. Because being On The Writers Block isn't the end of the story. It's where it starts.

]]>www.6ixthchildproductions.com/on-the-writers-blockRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:01:04 GMTFri, 17 Jul 2026 10:37:14 GMT60Megan Maher<p><b><strong>Every writer starts somewhere. In a notebook. A blank page. A room nobody's watching. Hell, maybe even listening to a podcast!</strong></b></p><p><b><strong>On The Writers Block is a room, opened just for you.</strong></b></p><p><b><strong>We sit down with the writers shaping television and film, the ones you know and the ones you should, and we talk about the real work. Not the highlight reel. The rewrites. The rejection. The rooms that didn't want them until they did.</strong></b></p><p><b><strong>No gatekeeping. No pretending the path was clean. Just the truth about what it takes to build a career in this industry, one page at a time.</strong></b></p><p><b><strong>This is for the writer still figuring it out. And the one who's been in the room for twenty years. Because being On The Writers Block isn't the end of the story. It's where it starts.</strong></b></p>episodicMegan Mahermkmaher22@gmail.comno<![CDATA[On The Writers Block - Niceole Levy]]>Niceole Levy paid her way through USC working graveyard shifts as a police dispatcher. Most recently a co-executive producer on NBC’s Found, she’s also written on S.W.A.T., The Recruit, and Cloak & Dagger, and co-wrote the feature The Banker. The author of The Writers’ Room Survival Guide joins Megan to talk about reading and surviving the room you land in, development rooms versus full season orders, and pitching a beat versus pitching your own show. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.

For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com
Email: onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com
TikTok: @onthewritersbloc
Instagram: @GoldenGrl22
Threads: @GoldenGrl22

For more about our guest Niceole Levy, visit: www.niceolelevy.com
Threads: @niceolecookies
Instagram: @niceolecookies

]]>https://www.meganmaherfilmmaker.com/podcast7ab6b051-d942-4fc4-ae7a-dd6ee61a7c9aWed, 14 Oct 2026 23:50:13 GMT<p>Niceole Levy paid her way through USC working graveyard shifts as a police dispatcher. Most recently a co-executive producer on NBC’s Found, she’s also written on S.W.A.T., The Recruit, and Cloak &amp; Dagger, and co-wrote the feature The Banker. The author of The Writers’ Room Survival Guide joins Megan to talk about reading and surviving the room you land in, development rooms versus full season orders, and pitching a beat versus pitching your own show. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.<br /><br />For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com<br />Email: <a href="mailto:onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com</a><br />TikTok: @onthewritersbloc<br />Instagram: @GoldenGrl22<br />Threads: @GoldenGrl22<br /><br />For more about our guest Niceole Levy, visit: www.niceolelevy.com<br />Threads: @niceolecookies<br />Instagram: @niceolecookies</p>no00:59:3316On The Writers Block - Niceole Levyfull<![CDATA[On The Writers Block - Paul Guyot]]>Paul Guyot spent nearly a decade as a Hollywood stand-in before landing his first writing job. He’s since written and produced over 200 hours of television, from Felicity and Judging Amy to Leverage, took over as showrunner on The Librarians, and co-wrote Geostorm. He joins Megan to talk about what craft really means after all these years, the hard truths in his book Kill the Dog, running a room, and the discipline that keeps him at the page. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.

For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com
Email: onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com
TikTok: @onthewritersbloc
Instagram: @GoldenGrl22
Threads: @GoldenGrl22

For more about our guest Paul Guyot, visit: www.screenwritingtruth.com
TikTok: @screenwritingtruth

]]>https://www.meganmaherfilmmaker.com/on-the-writers-block26e5b875-5acf-456c-8507-da72f03cef89Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:48:41 GMT<p>Paul Guyot spent nearly a decade as a Hollywood stand-in before landing his first writing job. He’s since written and produced over 200 hours of television, from Felicity and Judging Amy to Leverage, took over as showrunner on The Librarians, and co-wrote Geostorm. He joins Megan to talk about what craft really means after all these years, the hard truths in his book Kill the Dog, running a room, and the discipline that keeps him at the page. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.<br /><br />For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com<br />Email: <a href="mailto:onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com</a><br />TikTok: @onthewritersbloc<br />Instagram: @GoldenGrl22<br />Threads: @GoldenGrl22<br /><br />For more about our guest Paul Guyot, visit: www.screenwritingtruth.com<br />TikTok: @screenwritingtruth</p>no01:03:5515On The Writers Block - Paul Guyotfull<![CDATA[On The Writers Block - Laura Moran]]>Laura Moran has known she wanted to write since the third grade, when she turned in a twenty-five-page book report on Abraham Lincoln written in crayon. Since then she’s written on How I Met Your Mother, The Neighborhood, Harley Quinn, and Going Dutch, and sold shows to Warner Bros. and CBS. She joins Megan to talk comedy across multi-cam, single-cam, and animation, what it really takes to sell a show, and a watch party of The Neighborhood pilot. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.

For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com
Email: onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com
TikTok: @onthewritersbloc
Instagram: @GoldenGrl22
Threads: @GoldenGrl22

For more about our guest Laura Moran, visit: www.lauramoran.com
TikTok: @laurampotatoes
Instagram: @laurapotatoes

]]>https://www.meganmaherfilmmaker.com/podcast1dc0c652-ccd7-46f6-af2c-33b3e8b24c4aWed, 14 Oct 2026 23:45:00 GMT<p>Laura Moran has known she wanted to write since the third grade, when she turned in a twenty-five-page book report on Abraham Lincoln written in crayon. Since then she’s written on How I Met Your Mother, The Neighborhood, Harley Quinn, and Going Dutch, and sold shows to Warner Bros. and CBS. She joins Megan to talk comedy across multi-cam, single-cam, and animation, what it really takes to sell a show, and a watch party of The Neighborhood pilot. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.<br /><br />For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com<br />Email: <a href="mailto:onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com</a><br />TikTok: @onthewritersbloc<br />Instagram: @GoldenGrl22<br />Threads: @GoldenGrl22<br /><br />For more about our guest Laura Moran, visit: www.lauramoran.com<br />TikTok: @laurampotatoes<br />Instagram: @laurapotatoes</p>no00:45:5714On The Writers Block - Laura Moranfull<![CDATA[On The Writers Block - Caroline Renard]]>Caroline Renard went from pre-law at FSU to story editor on Disney+’s Secrets of Sulphur Springs, then stepped behind the camera. Her directorial debut, Unbraided, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and won Best Comedic Short at the 2024 Micheaux Film Festival. The first-generation Haitian-American writer-director joins Megan to talk about the leap from writing to directing, turning a canceled braiding appointment into a story about Black women and their hair, and building a cast and crew that looks like the story. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.

For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com
Email: onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com
TikTok: @onthewritersbloc
Instagram: @GoldenGrl22
Threads: @GoldenGrl22

For more about our guest Caroline Renard, visit: www.caroline-renard.com
TikTok: @caroline_renard
Instagram: @caroline_renard

]]>https://www.meganmaherfilmmaker.com/on-the-writers-block6aea5807-d8fa-4d20-a388-adbec97e1818Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:42:07 GMT<p>Caroline Renard went from pre-law at FSU to story editor on Disney+’s Secrets of Sulphur Springs, then stepped behind the camera. Her directorial debut, Unbraided, premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and won Best Comedic Short at the 2024 Micheaux Film Festival. The first-generation Haitian-American writer-director joins Megan to talk about the leap from writing to directing, turning a canceled braiding appointment into a story about Black women and their hair, and building a cast and crew that looks like the story. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.<br /><br />For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com<br />Email: <a href="mailto:onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com</a><br />TikTok: @onthewritersbloc<br />Instagram: @GoldenGrl22<br />Threads: @GoldenGrl22<br /><br />For more about our guest Caroline Renard, visit: www.caroline-renard.com<br />TikTok: @caroline_renard<br />Instagram: @caroline_renard</p>no00:59:4313On The Writers Block - Caroline Renardfull<![CDATA[On The Writers Block - Paynudeh Allen]]>Paynudeh Allen got her start in the mailroom. From there, the Liberian-American comedy writer from Maryland worked her way through rooms like She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Surfside Girls, wrote a freelance episode of Be@rbrick, and landed a staff writer spot at Nickelodeon. She joins Megan to talk about the climb from support staff, what programs like TRIBE really give you, and her lane: the delightfully mundane and truly weird lives of Black women. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.

For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com
Email: onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com
TikTok: @onthewritersbloc
Instagram: @GoldenGrl22
Threads: @GoldenGrl22

For more about our guest Paynudeh Allen
Instagram: @pkaresse

]]>https://www.meganmaherfilmmaker.com/on-the-writers-block33e46015-7c6d-4716-a3fc-b54889ee78a0Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:39:16 GMT<p>Paynudeh Allen got her start in the mailroom. From there, the Liberian-American comedy writer from Maryland worked her way through rooms like She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and Surfside Girls, wrote a freelance episode of Be@rbrick, and landed a staff writer spot at Nickelodeon. She joins Megan to talk about the climb from support staff, what programs like TRIBE really give you, and her lane: the delightfully mundane and truly weird lives of Black women. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.<br /><br />For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com<br />Email: <a href="mailto:onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com</a><br />TikTok: @onthewritersbloc<br />Instagram: @GoldenGrl22<br />Threads: @GoldenGrl22<br /><br />For more about our guest Paynudeh Allen<br />Instagram: @pkaresse</p>no00:47:4812On The Writers Block - Paynudeh Allenfull<![CDATA[On The Writers Block - Rae Benjamin]]>Rae Benjamin, writer on Netflix’s The Witcher and co-writer and co-executive producer of The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, pulls up a chair. She opens up about her leap from graphic design to screenwriting, breaking story in a beloved fantasy world, and what it takes to thrive in a writers’ room. Plus, why she founded In The Cut to bridge Hollywood’s knowledge gap, especially for BIPOC creators, and how it grew into a global community of 12,000+ artists. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.

For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com
Email: onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com
TikTok: @onthewritersbloc
Instagram: @GoldenGrl22
Threads: @GoldenGrl22

For more about our guest Rae Benjamin, visit: www.inthecutla.org
Email: info@inthecutla.org
TikTok: @inthecutla1
Instagram: @inthecutla

]]>https://www.meganmaherfilmmaker.com/podcasta06d13f9-2c4b-48c2-a179-7246cf3366ceWed, 14 Oct 2026 23:37:04 GMT<p>Rae Benjamin, writer on Netflix’s The Witcher and co-writer and co-executive producer of The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep, pulls up a chair. She opens up about her leap from graphic design to screenwriting, breaking story in a beloved fantasy world, and what it takes to thrive in a writers’ room. Plus, why she founded In The Cut to bridge Hollywood’s knowledge gap, especially for BIPOC creators, and how it grew into a global community of 12,000+ artists. Real talk for every writer still figuring it out.<br /><br />For more about host Megan Maher, visit: www.6ixthChildProductions.com<br />Email: <a href="mailto:onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">onthewritersblockpodcast@gmail.com</a><br />TikTok: @onthewritersbloc<br />Instagram: @GoldenGrl22<br />Threads: @GoldenGrl22<br /><br />For more about our guest Rae Benjamin, visit: www.inthecutla.org<br />Email: <a href="mailto:info@inthecutla.org" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">info@inthecutla.org</a><br />TikTok: @inthecutla1<br />Instagram: @inthecutla</p>no00:57:2211On The Writers Block - Rae Benjaminfull