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How screenwriters find their voice

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February 12, 2013 Scriptnotes, Three Page Challenge, Transcribed, Words on the page

Aline Brosh McKenna joins John and Craig for a conversation about what writers mean by a “voice,” and how it develops.

For some screenwriters, their voice develops long before their craft, leading people to label them as “promising” even though the scripts themselves are a mess. Other writers get all the technical stuff right from the start, but have a hard time finding something distinctive about how they write.

From there, we segue into a look at three new Three Page Challenges, easily our most contentious session yet, with wildly split opinions.

All this and Craig’s confession in the new episode of Scriptnotes.

LINKS:

  • Aline Brosh McKenna on IMDb, and her first appearance on Scriptnotes
  • Spy: The Funny Years
  • Recitative on Wikipedia
  • Three pages by James Topham
  • Three pages by Cheryl Laughlin
  • Three pages by Chris Vieira
  • OUTRO: Robot Love by some youth ministry conference

You can download the episode here: AAC.

UPDATE 2-17-13: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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