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John offers a host of career-focused insights as he tackles our overflowing mailbag to answer as many listener questions as he can.

What’s the best way to keep track of shower thoughts? How do you build a good creative workplace? How do you disclose your past wrongs to a future employer? What is Appendix A? And who picks up the tab at a coffee meeting?

In our bonus segment for premium members, bells are ringing as John and newlywed Drew discuss what makes a wedding work.

Links:

Oppenheimer: The Official Screenplay by Christopher Nolan
WGA Appendix A
An Extremely Detailed Map of New York City Neighborhoods by Larry Buchanan, Josh Katz, Rumsey Taylor and Eve Washington for the New York Times
TFI Photo Lab in Danvers, MA
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0:00.0	Hello and welcome my name is John August and this is episode 618 of script notes.
0:06.4	It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.
0:09.9	Craig Mason has been buried under an avalanche of work.
0:13.0	So today on the show, producer Drew Marquardt and I will power through a stack of
0:17.0	mostly career-related questions.
0:19.0	They've been piling up in the mail bag for weeks, months.
0:22.0	Weeks, or months, some of them. up in the mail bag for weeks, months?
0:22.7	Weeks, or months, some of them.
0:24.8	But I'm excited for all of them.
0:26.6	Yeah, so usually what happens is we have on the outline
0:29.5	a bunch of the topics of the day and then questions
0:31.9	and like we get to the questions or we don't get to the questions and they just it stuck up there.
0:36.2	Yeah, I usually have about five or so for each episode and we'll get to one, maybe two sometimes. So this is good.
0:43.5	So we're going to look at everything
0:44.4	from disclosing why you were fired from your last job
0:46.9	to who pays for coffee.
0:48.5	There's a few craft things in there,
0:49.6	but it's more sort of like work stuff in this batch of mailbag.
0:53.7	And in our bonus segment for premium members,
0:55.6	we will discuss weddings, because through Markort,
0:57.4	you were just married.
0:58.1	I was, and you are still married,
	...

618 - Clearing out the Mailbag

Scriptnotes Podcast

John August

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