Selling without selling out

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. UPDATE 7-18-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.The post Selling without selling out first appeared on John August.