The hard part of turning something you lived through into a drama is getting the inner story out. Dawnwood's interviewer asks one question at a time — what happened, the hardest decision, who stood against you, the moment it turned — and after about ten answers writes a series brief you can edit and send straight into a season run.
What does the story interview do? It replaces the empty “describe your series” field with a conversation. You start anywhere — “I ran a company and lost it,” “my family never forgave my sister” — and the interviewer follows the vivid details, asks for scenes instead of abstractions, and moves on to what is still missing. When there is enough to write from, it produces a brief: title, logline, premise, characters, tone, era, audience, theme and a suggested episode count. That brief becomes the first page of a normal Dawnwood season run.
Ten questions, a brief you can edit, and a season run that starts from it — the interview and the brief are free.