Franz Kafka’s brother, and the perfect agent

John and Craig talk about why writers are often reluctant to show their work, and how film journalists love to focus on the director — even when there’s no director in sight. Then, it’s part two of our Perfect series, in which we look at what constitutes the perfect agent. Underlying the agent archetypes — advisor, advocate, connector — is a relationship based on honesty and trust. How do you build it? How do you maintain it? We offer our opinions from the writer’s side of the phone sheet. Come to our live show on December 11th in Hollywood! You’ll find the link in the show notes. Links: If you ever have issues with the Scriptnotes app, please let us know Get premium Scriptnotes access at scriptnotes.net and hear last week’s two bonus episodes, plus our upcoming 1,000th subscriber special Chris Pratt Circles Cowboy Ninja Viking If you missed our Kickstarter, sign up at writeremergency.com to be notified when packs are available for purchase If you know a lot about retail, reach out to us Christopher Nolan’s Brother to Adapt Isaac Asimov’s Foundation for HBO, on Vulture Frequent Tim Burton Collaborator to Pen Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Movie, from Time Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Movie Writer Could Change Everything, on io9 Franz Kafka and Max Brod on Wikipedia High Maintenance, and on Vimeo and Wikipedia The Worst Line in Scriptwriting History from Mortal Kombat: Annihilation Mortal Kombat: A Novel on Amazon Get your tickets now for the Scriptnotes Holiday Show Rachel Bloom’s NSFW song about Ray Bradbury Outro by Scriptnotes editor Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!) You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3. UPDATE 12-1-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.The post Franz Kafka’s brother, and the perfect agent first appeared on John August.