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Scriptnotes Podcast

651 - The Live Edit

Scriptnotes Podcast

John August

Screenwriter, Tv & Film, Writing, John, Screenwriting, August, Craig, Screenplay, Mazin

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

John and Craig finally become writing partners and edit the opening to one chapter of the upcoming Scriptnotes book live on-air. They wrestle with word choices, adapting the phrasing of a spoken conversation and finding a unified voice as they pass the keyboard back and forth.

We also catch up Craig on what he’s missed since he’s been away, follow up on #payuphollywood, and answer a host of listener questions on personal stories, backstories, sharing credit, Lifetime movies, and disliking your protagonist.

In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig deal out their favorite card games.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome

0:02.8

My name is John August. My name is Craig Mason

0:05.2

And this is episode 651 of script notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are

0:10.0

interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, we'll do a live edit of the chapter

0:14.0

for the forthcoming Script Notes book

0:16.0

and answer a bunch of listener questions

0:17.9

that have stacked up.

0:19.4

And it did our bonus segment for premium members,

0:21.4

card games. We've talked a lot on the show about

0:23.7

word games and role-playing games, but I have no idea how Craig feels about

0:27.0

poker and the like. Oohoo. Oh but now Craig we can finally reveal what you've been up to because people have been writing

0:36.4

going to say like, where the hell is Craig?

0:37.9

It's been four weeks since Craig has been on the show.

0:40.3

Where is Craig?

0:41.3

Well, I think we can say this. We can't say everything now. We can say like you were cast on this next season of Survivor and so you've been off on an island in Fiji and

0:50.2

I always you can't tell us how you, but wow Craig I'm so impressed.

0:54.3

God voted off first.

0:55.5

Did I just ruin this show?

0:57.8

You ruined nothing less likely than me being on Survivor.

1:04.2

Maybe Love Island, that might be slightly less likely.

1:07.5

So I bring this up because John Lovett,

1:09.1

who's the host of Lovett or Leave it,

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