662 - 20 Questions (2024 Edition)
Scriptnotes Podcast
John August
4.8 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
John and Craig answer twenty listener questions on craft, career, and the future of the industry.
Questions include: How do you correct well wishes you haven’t earned? What kind of relationship should you have with the person who created your source material? How do you keep your reps invested? What’s going on with that Stereophonic lawsuit? And are writers retreats helpful or a total waste of time?
In our bonus segment for premium members, John and Craig celebrate the new D&D Player’s Handbook by looking back through every edition since 1978. Like the handbook, it gets less dense as it goes.
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- Why AI Isn’t Going to Make Art by Ted Chiang for The New Yorker
- The Stereophonic Lawsuit
- Rachel Bloom’s “Death, Let Me Do My Special” on Netflix
- Warner Bros. Studios Burbank
- Save Scarecrow Video in Seattle
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- Scriptnotes is produced by Drew Marquardt and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is John. Today's episode has even more swearing than usual, so if you're in a car with your kids, this is a standard warning about that. |
| 0:11.0 | Hello and welcome, my name is John August. Oh my God my name is Craig Mason and you |
| 0:16.2 | listen to episode 662 of script notes it's a podcast about screenwriting and |
| 0:19.9 | things that are interesting to screenwriters today on on the show, we will strive to answer 20 different listener questions. |
| 0:25.6 | Oh yeah. |
| 0:26.6 | On everything from AI to page count, manager notes to emotional investment. |
| 0:30.2 | Get the cocaine out. |
| 0:31.6 | We're gonna have to get some cocaine in us, John. |
| 0:34.0 | I don't think cocaine will really solve them, but the issues here. |
| 0:37.0 | The issue is that we have far too many listener questions. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah. So every week, Drew gets a whole bunch of questions from listeners |
| 0:42.8 | they pile up in his mailbox sometimes we have a chance to answer them on the show |
| 0:46.3 | a lot of times we don't Drew how many listener emails do you get on a weekly basis? I probably get |
| 0:52.1 | five to ten questions a day. |
| 0:54.0 | We gotta get more. |
| 0:57.0 | Do you know that we don't do cocaine? |
| 0:59.0 | I just said we have to get cocaine in us. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:03.0 | That's not what cochainers say. |
| 1:05.0 | Also, they don't call themselves cochainers. |
| 1:07.0 | You hear me make it up your words. |
| 1:09.0 | I'm clearly not a cochainer. |
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