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Fan Fiction and Ghost Taxis
David Mamet and the producer pass
What is good writing?
The job of writer-producer
ESexy But Doesn’t Know It
Franchises and Final Draft
The one with Jason Bateman and the Game of Thrones guys
The Script Graveyard
Ocean’s 77
Fun with Numbers
Room, Spotlight and The Big Short
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Random Advice 2015
Scriptnotes Holiday Show 2015
EFeel the Nerd Burn
The Batman in the High Castle
Only haters hate rom-coms
EWhiplash, on paper and on screen
EConfusing, Unlikable and On-The-Nose
Live from Austin 2015
ENobody Knows Anything (including what this quote means)
Writers Rooms, Taxes, and Fat Hamlet
The One Where Aline’s Show Debuts
Features are different
Campaign statements and residual statements
Rewrites and Scheduling
PG13: Blood, Boobs and Bullcrap
EClerks and recreation
NDAs and other acronyms
Diary of a First-Time Director
The International Episode
One-Handed Movie Heroes
How to Not Be a Jerk
How descriptive audio works
EWhy movies have reshoots
Everything but the dialogue
The One with Alec Berg
No one makes those movies anymore
Nobody Eats Four Marshmallows
Everyman vs. Superman
EHow would this be a movie?
The 200th Episode Live Show
Second Draft Doldrums
Back to 100
EHow do bad movies get made?
The long and short of it
Writing for Hollywood without living there
Poking the bear
How writing credits work
You can’t train a cobra to do that
The Deal with Scripped.com
This Is Working
Uncluttered by Ignorance
Midseason Finale
The Coyote Could Stop Any Time
The Rules (or, the Paradox of the Outlier)
Malcolm Spellman, a Study in Heat
EGo Set a Spider-Man
The Deal with the Gravity Lawsuit
The One with Rebel Wilson and Dan Savage
INT. THE WOODS – NIGHT
Bad Teachers, Good Advice and the Default Male
The Conflict Episode
Doing, not thinking
Cutting Pages and Fixing Holes
Advice to a First-Time Director
Twelve Days of Scriptnotes
Hacks, Transference and Where to Begin
The Perfect Reader
Franz Kafka’s brother, and the perfect agent
Finishing a script, and the Perfect Studio Executive
Lotteries, lightning strikes and twist endings
Descending Into Darkness
Austin Forever
The Tentpoles of 2019
Critics, Characters and Business Affairs
Toxic Perfection Syndrome
Guardians of the Galaxy’s Nicole Perlman
Ghost
Luck, sequels and bus money
A Cheap Cut of Meat Soaked in Butter
A Screenwriter’s Guide to the End of the World
The Mystery of the Disappearing Articles
Putting a price on it
Threshers, Mergers and the Top Two Boxes
Summer Re-run: Psychotherapy for Screenwriters
Two Writers, One Script
Making Things Better by Making Things Worse
Selling without selling out
The Rocky Shoals (pages 70-90)
Secrets and Lies
Yes, screenwriting is actually writing
The Long-Lost Austin Three Page Challenge
From Debussy to VOD
To Chase or To Spec
Wet Hot American Podcast
Q&A from the Superhero Spectacular
The Summer Superhero Spectacular
EPhotoplays and archetypes
The Angeles Crest Fiasco
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