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Doing, not thinking

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January 6, 2015 Film Industry, Follow Up, News, Scriptnotes, Three Page Challenge, Transcribed, Words on the page

John and Craig start the new year by discussing Chuck Palahniuk’s advice to avoid thinking verbs. Then it’s a new round of the Three Page Challenge.

We also do follow-up on the Sony hack.

Links:

  • The Year of Outrage on Slate
  • North Korea responds with fury to US sanctions over Sony Pictures hack
  • The LA Times on The Interview’s opening weekend
  • Chuck Palahniuk on thought verbs
  • Three pages by Mike Litzenberg & Bridge Stuart
  • Three pages by Meredith DePaolo
  • Dunning–Kruger effect
  • Three pages by Mimi Jeffries
  • How to submit your three pages
  • D20 Critical Hit Mini Cake Pan and Death Star Ice Mold on Think Geek, and Smarf L’Héroïque on Shirt.Woot
  • Critical Hit LED D20 Die on Think Geek
  • Vitamin D3 on Wikipedia
  • Outro by Scriptnotes editor Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 1-8-15: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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