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](http://abc.go.com/shows/once-upon-a-time)
* NBC’s [Grimm](http://www.nbc.com/grimm/)
* CW’s [Ringer](http://www.cwtv.com/shows/ringer) and its non-credible [boat scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAmIOPW_1Ow)
* Fox’s [New Girl](http://www.fox.com/new-girl/)
* [Dungeons and Dragons, 4th Edition](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editions_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons#Dungeons_.26_Dragons_4th_edition)
* John Rogers’s great [D&D comics](https://shop.idwpublishing.com/dungeons-and-dragons-1-5-subscription.html)
* The [Marvel Super Heroes RPG](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Super_Heroes_(role-playing_game))
* [Daisy wheel printers](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_wheel_printer)
* Intro: [NBC Fall Promo, 1980](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-00NHiBMXL0)
* Outro: [Russian Unicorn](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjaZNYSt7o0) by BLS
You can download the episode here: [AAC](http://traffic.libsyn.com/scriptnotes/scriptnotes_ep_06.m4a).
UPDATE 10-11-11: The transcript of this episode can be found [here](http://johnaugust.com/2011/scriptnotes-ep-6-how-kids-become-screenwriters-transcript).