The Mystery of the Disappearing Articles

John and Craig take a look at four new entries in the Three Page Challenge, ranging from galactic drama to medieval comedy. Along the way, they talk about the nature of one-hour teasers, trust, plausibility, and how to properly address religious authorities. Screenwriting is often described as a compressed form of writing, but one can take it too far. “The” and “a” are often useless articles — but you notice when they’re gone, as we did in one of the entries. Links: John’s blog post on trust Less IMDb is working again Submit your Three Pages Read this week’s pages on Weekend Read Three Pages by Joseph Bodner Three Pages by Lisa Mecham Three Pages by Patrick McGinley Handling numbers in dialogue on screenwriting.io Three Pages by Todd Bosley @abone114 recommends Sugru for fixing that thing Sugru on Cool Tools Please Like Me on ABC, Pivot, and iTunes Outro by Scriptnotes editor Matthew Chilelli (send us yours!) You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3. UPDATE 8-28-14: The transcript of this episode can be found here.The post The Mystery of the Disappearing Articles first appeared on John August.