658 - Advice Show
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig open the mailbag to answer a swath of listener questions that make Craig’s blood boil. They offer insights and umbrage on when you can turn down projects early in your career, picking the right day job, maintaining visibility when you’re taken off a project, the next steps after a successful short, when NDA’s are necessary, and how to credit unpublished source material.
We also say goodbye to green envelopes as we celebrate the arrival of direct deposit residuals, and follow up on AI training and GitHub for screenplays.
In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig abandon their superciliousness look at the English words they kind of know but are too chicken to actually ever use.
Links:
- Move Over Green Envelopes, WGA Rolls Out Direct Deposits For Residuals by Peter White for Deadline
- WGA Screen Credits Manual
- CDC Recommends Updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 and Flu Vaccines for Fall/Winter Virus Season
- Hide posts on Threads
- Baldur’s Gate 3
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- Craig Mazin on Threads and Instagram
- John August on Threads, Instagram, Twitter and Mastodon
- Outro by Nick Moore (send us yours!)
- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, today's episode features an enormous amount of profane language, and not for any reason. |
| 0:06.7 | I just felt like cursing. |
| 0:08.4 | So if you have kids in the car or anybody that doesn't enjoy that sort of thing, earmuffs on. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome, my name is John August. |
| 0:19.0 | Oh, my name is Greg Groves. |
| 0:22.0 | This is episode 658 of Scribbrough. Oh, his great news. |
| 0:23.0 | This is episode 658 of script notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. |
| 0:29.0 | Today on the show, we open our overflowing mailbag to tackle listener questions on collaboration, |
| 0:33.7 | non-disclosure agreements, self-delusion, and when to switch jobs. |
| 0:37.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.7 | I like self-delusion. |
| 0:39.4 | Are you going to switch your job? |
| 0:40.8 | Uh, if I said yes, I would be engaging in some serious self-delusion. |
| 0:45.9 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:46.9 | And our bonus segment for premium members, which English words do we sort of recognize but never |
| 0:50.9 | actually use? |
| 0:52.1 | We'll discuss those words. too chicken to try and I have a list of those things. Yeah, yeah, that's fun. Yeah, but first Craig we have some actual news a thing that has changed in the world for as long as you have been a member of the |
| 1:04.4 | WGA you've been looking for your big green envelopes. |
| 1:07.2 | Oh my God the WGA sent an update to us all. It was almost like, hey, we are now accepting your mobile phone |
| 1:17.2 | number instead of your landline. It was that overdue and out of date, but they are |
| 1:22.4 | finally doing direct deposit of residuals into your bank account. |
| 1:27.0 | Why it took them this long? I'm sure there's a reason. |
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