Today’s scriptcast is nominally about dialogue, but I ended up switching a lot of stuff around in the scene in order to accommodate new — and less — dialogue.
Words on the page
Can you include emotion in character description?
It’s okay to refer to emotions in character descriptions, even beyond what the character is experience at the moment we meet him.
Desperate punchlines
How you arrange the words can determine whether a line is rim-shot funny or thrown-away funny.
What’s real, then what’s funny
Jane Espenson makes the case for finding the essence before writing the jokes.