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How kids become screenwriters

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October 3, 2011 Scriptnotes, Television, Transcribed

John and Craig look at the new fall shows and how little kids become screenwriters, with discussion of D&D, Malcolm Gladwell and daisy-wheel printers.

For this installment, I wanted to focus on how people become screenwriters. Not “how to” — there are countless terrible books on that. Rather, what is it that calls people to such an atypical career, one that you can’t necessarily practice as a child or learn all at once in college?

Links:

  • ABC’s Once Upon a Time
  • NBC’s Grimm
  • CW’s Ringer and its non-credible boat scene
  • Fox’s New Girl
  • Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition
  • John Rogers’s great D&D comics
  • The Marvel Super Heroes RPG
  • Daisy wheel printers
  • Intro: NBC Fall Promo, 1980
  • Outro: Russian Unicorn by BLS

You can download the episode here: AAC.

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

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