The Contract between Writers and Readers

John and Craig look at the implicit contract made between screenwriters and readers — and ultimately, movies and their audience. That’s a natural introduction to our Three Page Challenge and the three new entries we look at this week. Also: Late Payments suck. You shouldn’t tolerate it, and neither should your agents. There are still a limited number of tickets available for the great Scriptnotes/Nerdist Writers Panel crossover live show on April 13th. You can find a link in the show notes. Links: Get your tickets now for the Scriptnotes/Nerdist Live Crossover episode on April 13th at Nerdmelt, with proceeds benefiting 826LA Patti Lupone interrupted Film Independent’s Directors Close-Up series Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D. Three Pages by Blake Armstrong Three Pages by Sandra Lee Slotboom Three Pages by James Stubenrauch How to submit your Three Pages, and Stuart’s post on lessons learned from the early batches The XStat syringe by RevMedx Threes! on the App Store Outro by Scriptnotes listener Betty Spinks You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3. UPDATE 2-27-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here. The post The Contract between Writers and Readers first appeared on John August.