This week’s episode finds Craig and John answering questions about agent etiquette, business cards and those troubling rewrites that unravel everything.
From there, John goes on a small tirade about weak verbs and Dungeons and Dragons-style scene description. Good writing: It’s not just for novelists.
There’s some language geekery as well, with a look at the hidden micro-classes of verbs that prevent a reasonable speaker from saying things like, “Whisper Tom the joke.”
All this and more in the 42nd installment of Scriptnotes.
LINKS:
* [Chicago Fire](http://www.nbc.com/chicago-fire/) on NBC
* [Flight](http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/flight/) trailer
* [Buddha Jones](http://www.buddhajonestrailers.com/) trailer house
* [*Th*-Fronting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th-fronting)
* [The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0670063274/?tag=johnaugustcom-20), by Steven Pinker
* [NYC Subway by Embark](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nyc-subway-by-embark-new-york/id450991137?mt=8), the transit app for iOS
* [MacBook Pro with Retina Display](http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/)
* INTRO: [Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCr3ZVZZjYA)
* OUTRO: [Verb! That’s What’s Happening](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWnO98eoZ-o), a Schoolhouse Rock cover by Moby
You can download the episode here: [AAC](http://traffic.libsyn.com/scriptnotes/scriptnotes_ep_42.m4a).
**UPDATE** 6-21-12: The transcript of this episode can be found [here](http://johnaugust.com/2012/scriptnotes-ep-42-verbs-are-whats-happening-transcript).