Think of this as a crash course in general meetings. In this compendium, John, Craig and Scriptnotes intern, Lauren, mine previous episodes for advice on the bewildering “general.” They aim to answer every question you’ve had about general meetings, over the years: What are they? What’s discussed? And how do you get one? In our bonus segment for premium subscribers, John and Craig swap stories about their best, worst, and first general meetings.

How do you answer the question "What is your project about?" Recorded live at the Austin Film Festival, John's Scriptnotes all-stars Pamela Ribon and Phil Hay join to talk about loglines, framing, and the deeper message of your project. They also discuss working outside the traditional studio system, including how to find money for your film. In addition, we play a game with the audience.

What changes when you take off your writer hat and put on your director hat? In this compendium episode, John, Craig, and Scriptnotes coordinator Lauren Loesberg review directing advice previously given on the podcast. John and Craig offer Lauren pointers on directing her next project. They also answer a listener question about directing actors “on the page.” In our bonus segment for premium subscribers, we discuss film festivals.

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John welcomes writer and actress Zoe Kazan (Ruby Sparks, The Big Sick, She Said) to talk about her sweeping and thorough reimagining of East of Eden, releasing on Netflix on October 1st. They discuss her approach to period piece dialogue, the process of adapting such an expansive novel, and the family history behind this particular

We just launched a Kickstarter for the Character Creator Kit, the newest addition to the Writer Emergency Pack family. It's fun to return to Kickstarter, where we first created the Writer Emergency Pack back in 2014. For a short time we were the top-grossing card project on the site. The Character Creator Kit is the brainchild of Sam Shapson, a former Scriptnotes intern who first showed me a primitive version of this deck a year ago.

This fall, we are bringing together journalists—as well as TV and movie screenwriters, producers, directors, and content creators—to discuss nuclear security issues related to artificial intelligence,...

Craig Mazin on Star Wars and how not to be a teacher, from Scriptnotes 748: Yoda is the worst teacher. He’s the worst. First of all, he lies about

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