616 - The One with Neil Gaiman
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig welcome Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, Good Omens) to discuss the serialized storytelling of comics and screenwriting. Using Neil’s script for issue 24 of The Sandman, they look at how comics are written, communicating with other artists, using the medium to your advantage, and finding unique ways to deliver your story.
Neil also shares how he developed his voice as a writer, from the origin of his religious and mythological curiosities to the importance of doing it wrong, defining style, and his advice to young writers.
In our bonus segment for premium members, Neil sticks around to talk with John and Craig about the projects we never got around to writing.
Links:
- Neil Gaiman on Instagram and Twitter
- Read Neil’s script for The Sandman #24
- Starfield
- An American Puzzle: Fitting Race in a Box
- The Riddle of the Traveling Skull by Harry Stephen Keeler
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- Outro by Owen Danoff (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome my name is John August my name is Craig Mason and this episode |
| 0:06.3 | 616 of script notes a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting |
| 0:10.6 | to screenwriters today on the, we welcome the prolific author |
| 0:14.8 | of novels and comics, including The Sandman, |
| 0:17.2 | Star Dust, American Gods, and Coraline. |
| 0:19.4 | He is also a writer and producer of film and television, |
| 0:22.4 | serving as showrunner for the TV adaptation of his. a writer and producer of film and television, |
| 0:22.5 | serving as showrunner for the TV adaptation |
| 0:24.7 | of his novel Good Omen's. |
| 0:26.2 | He has won countless awards for his work |
| 0:28.4 | and as one of the creators of modern comics |
| 0:30.3 | has even played himself on The Simpsons. |
| 0:32.4 | Welcome, Neil Gaiman. |
| 0:34.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:35.0 | It's good to be here. |
| 0:36.0 | Neil Gaiman is on our show. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm a flutter. |
| 0:42.0 | So this has been, we've been sort of chasing after this for years and I don't mean chasing like Neil's been like no I don't want to. It's just more that he's a very busy person but |
| 0:51.8 | such a hero of mine. |
| 0:54.0 | Normally we talk to people that I'm either fully disdainful of, |
| 0:58.0 | or they're just contemporaries. |
| 1:00.0 | And you are different. |
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