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September 10, 2013 How-To, Scriptnotes, Transcribed

John and Craig discuss the difference between character intention and motivation, before segueing to conversations about working with actors and on-set writing.

We’ve released a new (and final) batch of seats for the live New York show on September 23rd, so grab your tickets now for a chance to see Craig and John sing on stage with special guest Andrew Lippa.

In other live-show news: we’re headed back to Austin! There will be two separate Scriptnotes panels at this year’s festival. Stay tuned for more details.

Links:

  • Shofars on Wikipedia
  • Submit your Three Pages now and let us know you’ll be at the 2013 Austin Film Festival
  • The William Shatner recording session
  • Brother HL2230 Laser Printer on Amazon
  • John and Dan Jinks on KCRW’s The Business
  • Writerduet.com lets you collaborate in real-time
  • Outro by Scriptnotes listener Kurt Kuenne

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 9-12-13: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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