John and Craig talk action! It’s an all-craft episode about how words on the page become high-adrenaline events on the screen.
We also follow up on WGA news and agency lay-offs.
In our bonus segment for premium members we try to discuss the Emmys but mostly talk about teenage girls’ obsession with Criminal Minds.
Links:
* [Action Scenes PDF](https://johnaugust.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Scriptnotes-463-action-samples-corrected.pdf) **←CORRECTED 8/20/2020**
* [Support Staff Emergency Relief Fund](https://actorsfund.org/am-i-eligible-help)
* [CAA Lays Off Agents and Employees](https://variety.com/2020/film/news/caa-major-layoffs-agents-staff-1234718628/)
* [WGA East and West members voted to approve the new contract](https://www.thewrap.com/wga-contract-ratified-with-overwhelming-approval-in-membership-vote/)
* [Good Sudoku](https://9to5mac.com/2020/07/23/good-sudoku-ios-app-launches-to-save-sudoku/)
* [Good Soduku App](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/id1489118195#?platform=iphone)
* [Ghosts of Tsushima](https://www.playstation.com/en-us/games/ghost-of-tsushima-ps4/)
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* [Craig Mazin](https://twitter.com/clmazin) on Twitter
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* [Outro](http://johnaugust.com/2013/scriptnotes-the-outros) by Matthew Chilelli ([send us yours!](http://johnaugust.com/2014/outros-needed))
* Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli.
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You can download the episode [here](http://traffic.libsyn.com/scriptnotes/463standard.mp3).
**UPDATE 8-10-20** The transcript for this episode can now be found [here](https://johnaugust.com/2020/scriptnotes-episode-463-writing-action-transcript).