153 - Selling without selling out

Jul 15, 2014

In their first-ever live streaming episode, John and Craig open the mailbag to answer a bunch of listener questions.

 

• What research should a writer do before soliciting an agent or manager?
• What should a writer be willing to give up in order to make her first sale?
• Does a Mormon writer face special challenges in drink-and-drugging Hollywood?
• Why doesn't Highland exist on Android?
• What determines "Story by" credit on a feature?
• How did we like DungeonWorld? (John asked this question.)

 

All this, plus the Fermi Paradox in this episode of Scriptnotes.

 

Links:

 

• Scriptnotes, 76, with Three Pages by James Topham
• Scriptnotes, 115: Back to Austin with Rian Johnson and Kelly Marcel
• David Lynch on the iPhone
• Björk, Human Behavior
• Dungeon World
• Scriptnotes, 142: The Angeles Crest Fiasco
• Action Jackson trailer
• David Kwong at TED2014: Two nerdy obsessions meet — and it's magic
• The Fermi paradox on Wikipedia, Wait But Why and Praxtime
• Neil deGrasse Tyson on chimps, humans and aliens
• John is hiring a new UI designer
• Our USB drives now have the first 150 episodes
• Archives are also available on scriptnotes.net
• This episode was broadcast live on Mixlr
• Outro by Scriptnotes listener Jeff Harms (send us yours!)

 

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.