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The Mystery of the Disappearing Articles

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August 26, 2014 Follow Up, Scriptnotes, Story and Plot, Three Page Challenge, Transcribed, Words on the page

John and Craig take a look at four new entries in the Three Page Challenge, ranging from galactic drama to medieval comedy. Along the way, they talk about the nature of one-hour teasers, trust, plausibility, and how to properly address religious authorities.

Screenwriting is often described as a compressed form of writing, but one can take it too far. “The” and “a” are often useless articles — but you notice when they’re gone, as we did in one of the entries.

Links:

  • John’s blog post on trust
  • Less IMDb is working again
  • Submit your Three Pages
  • Read this week’s pages on Weekend Read
  • Three Pages by Joseph Bodner
  • Three Pages by Lisa Mecham
  • Three Pages by Patrick McGinley
  • Handling numbers in dialogue on screenwriting.io
  • Three Pages by Todd Bosley
  • @abone114 recommends Sugru for fixing that thing
  • Sugru on Cool Tools
  • Please Like Me on ABC, Pivot, and iTunes
  • Outro by Scriptnotes editor Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 8-28-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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