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                                                              • 755 - Directing Your Writing
                                                                by John August and Craig Mazin on October 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM

                                                                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 […]

                                                              • Idiots Q&A - Macon Blair
                                                                by [email protected] (Jeff Goldsmith) on September 23, 2026 at 10:07 AM

                                                                Host Jeff Goldsmith talks to writer-director-actor Macon Blair about his latest film - Idiots. Download my podcast here Copyright © Unlikely Films, Inc. 2026. All rights reserved. For more great content, read Backstory Magazine!

                                                              • William Jackson Harper
                                                                by Peter Rinaldi on September 22, 2026 at 6:59 PM

                                                                William Jackson Harper is probably best known for the work he did over four seasons on the NBC comedy "The Good Place," and the Ari Aster film "Midsommar," but his true happy place is on the stage (he's a Tony nominee for the recent production of […]

                                                              • Happy Birthday to Me
                                                                by [email protected] (Earwolf) on October 9, 2026 at 4:05 AM

                                                                The 1981 teen slasher Happy Birthday to Me has a wild twist ending that you could never predict, but Paul, Jason, and June try nonetheless to make sense out of all the bonkers plot turns leading up to the reveal of the killer. Along the way they […]

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                                                                    • Aaron Sorkin's 4 Biggest Writing Lessons
                                                                      by Jo Light on October 9, 2026 at 8:00 PM

                                                                      You'd think after, you know, an Oscar, The West Wing, and decades of fast-talking dialogue, writing would get easier for Aaron Sorkin. But it hasn't, according to what he admits in a recent conversation with Esquire editor-in-chief Michael […]