About this episode

Craig answers listener questions on various topics including rewriting on set and character development.

This week, Craig answers listener questions about rewriting on set, AI coverage, when and how to kill off characters, sizing up producers, and more. There's also an extra-special guest appearance for this week's One Cool Thing. In the bonus segment for premium subscribers, Craig discusses how to be wrong—something he feels he knows all too well. Links: "Widow's Bay" Games: Daddy's Home & Teeth "L.A. Law" Elevator Scene Ed Wood (1994) Get your copy of the Scriptnotes book! Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt! Check out the Inneresting Newsletter Become a Scriptnotes Premium member , or gift a subscription Subscribe to Scriptnotes on YouTube Follow Scriptnotes on Instagram and TikTok John August on Bluesky and Instagram Outro by Matthew Chilelli ( send us yours! ) Scriptnotes is produced by Meredith Stedman and edited by Matthew Chilelli . Our intern is Lauren Loesberg. Email us at ask@johnaugust.com You can download the episode here .

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