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December 8, 2015 Directors, Film Industry, Follow Up, QandA, Rights and Copyright, Scriptnotes, Three Page Challenge, Transcribed

Craig and John discuss three new entries in the Three Page Challenge, looking at how simple mistakes and confusing word choices can hurt the read.

Also this week, a follow up on functional revenge, a brand-new version of Highland, and Craig gets big laughs on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.

Links:

  • The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, December 3, 2015
  • Craig in The New York Times and on Jezebel
  • Download Highland 1.9 now and sign up to be a Highland 2 beta tester
  • Does Revenge Serve an Evolutionary Purpose? from Scientific American
  • One Hit Kill is now available for purchase
  • Projection Problems Plague 70mm L.A. Press Screening Of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ from Indie Wire
  • Three Pages by Jody Russell
  • Three Pages by Mark S.W. & V.P. Walling
  • Three Pages by Matthew Gentile
  • Submit your Three Pages here
  • The Wall Street Journal on How Cyndi Lauper Wrote Her First No. 1 Hit, ‘Time After Time’
  • Secret Hitler is now on Kickstarter
  • Amazon Prime Now offers one hour delivery
  • Email us or tweet John or Craig for advice on things that have nothing to do with screenwriting
  • Outro by Roman Mittermayr (send us yours!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 12-11-15: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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