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Cutting Pages and Fixing Holes

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December 30, 2014 Film Industry, Scriptnotes, Story and Plot, Words on the page

It’s a clip show! John and Craig discuss cutting pages from your script, fixing plot holes, and what we’d do if we ran a studio. We’ll be back with all new episodes in 2015, the year of post-outrage rationality.

Lotteries, lightning strikes and twist endings

November 11, 2014 Film Industry, Follow Up, Genres, QandA, Scriptnotes, Words on the page, Writer Emergency, Writer Emergency Pack

John and Craig look at the nature of fluke hits, everything from #alexfromtarget to huge spec sales. Is luck just luck, or is it about how often you play the game? Where does talent fit in?

In praise of flat adverbs

November 10, 2014 Geek Alert, Words on the page

It’s not simply a matter of do-what-you-want. These words really are adverbs, they just look like their related adjective forms.

Descending Into Darkness

November 4, 2014 Follow Up, Scriptnotes, Three Page Challenge, Transcribed, Words on the page, Writing Process

Craig and John shake off their Halloween candy hangovers by taking a look at three new Three Page Challenges, full of post-apocalyptic portals and strange signals.

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