Hello and welcome

my name is John August.

My name is Craig Mason.

And you're listening to episode 652 of script notes, a podcast about

screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, what things are your characters doing out of habit or tradition?

We'll look at rituals to see how they can illuminate your hero's background and provide a

jumping off point for your story.

We'll also answer some literal questions including how to move from writing plays to

writing movies. And in our bonus segment for premium members, since we're talking

about rituals, how about Barmitzvas and about bar mitzvah's and

bat mitzvah my guess is Craig you had a bar mitzvah I sure did all right so

let's look at it at that because megano and I didn't have a chance to do that and

here's why I say that meggina is filling in for Drew

he's off this week. Megga Rau, welcome back. Thank you so much.

Here by unpopular demand I guess. I don't know about that. From what I

understand Meggina you are popular. You're somewhat

of a celebrity amongst the millennials. And even non-Mologna. So this last week, Megana and I went to see Taffey Bird,

Sir Actner, at a book launch party

for her new book, Long Island Compromised, which is fantastic.

So it's my first time meeting Taffey in person.

She's come on the episode, I guess you weren't there, Craig,

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