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July 15, 2014 Apps, Film Industry, Highland, Producers, QandA, Screenwriting Software, Scriptnotes, Transcribed, Words on the page, Writing Process

In their first-ever live streaming episode, John and Craig open the mailbag to answer a bunch of listener questions.

  • What research should a writer do before soliciting an agent or manager?
  • What should a writer be willing to give up in order to make her first sale?
  • Does a Mormon writer face special challenges in drink-and-drugging Hollywood?
  • Why doesn’t Highland exist on Android?
  • What determines “Story by” credit on a feature?
  • How did we like DungeonWorld? (John asked this question.)

All this, plus the Fermi Paradox in this episode of Scriptnotes.

Links:

  • Scriptnotes, 76, with Three Pages by James Topham
  • Scriptnotes, 115: Back to Austin with Rian Johnson and Kelly Marcel
  • David Lynch on the iPhone
  • Björk, Human Behavior
  • Dungeon World
  • Scriptnotes, 142: The Angeles Crest Fiasco
  • Action Jackson trailer
  • David Kwong at TED2014: Two nerdy obsessions meet — and it’s magic
  • The Fermi paradox on Wikipedia, Wait But Why and Praxtime
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson on chimps, humans and aliens
  • John is hiring a new UI designer
  • Our USB drives now have the first 150 episodes
  • Archives are also available on scriptnotes.net
  • This episode was broadcast live on Mixlr
  • Outro by Scriptnotes listener Jeff Harms (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 7-18-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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  1. 101: Q&A from the live show
  2. The Long-Lost Austin Three Page Challenge
  3. Scriptnotes: Back to Austin with Rian Johnson and Kelly Marcel

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