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Toxic Perfection Syndrome

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October 7, 2014 Film Industry, Follow Up, News, Scriptnotes, Transcribed, WGA

Craig and John discuss that delusional period in which you’re convinced your script is the best thing ever written — and the inevitable heartbreak when someone tells you it isn’t. (TPS is close cousins to the Oscar Speech in the Shower.)

Also this week: SF terms and tropes, Adam Sandler’s Netflix deal, and what the WGA should focus on.

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You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 10-11-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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