Writing
Apr 29, 2026
Writing Taken: lessons from Leslie Bohem
Writer Leslie Bohem sits down on Kingdom of Dreams to talk s Emmy Winner: character want, structure under pressure, and how pages survive contact with production.
Writing s Emmy Winner is less about clever lines than about irreversible choices. Leslie Bohem digs into how characters change, what research is allowed to do, and where a draft usually lies to its author.
Steal one habit from this episode: cut any speech that does not change what someone does next.
Go deeper on Kingdom of Dreams
- → EP 24: Leslie Bohem on s Emmy Winner
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- → EP 100: David Franzoni on Hollywood Insider: David Franzoni on Spielberg, Amistad & Gl
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Original Kingdom of Dreams craft take based on our conversation with Leslie Bohem (EP 24). Not a reprint of any single article.