Hey, this is John. Today's episode is one from the vault. Back in 2015, Craig and I talked about how WGA credits work.

Now, a lot has changed in the world over the past eight years, but the credits process is largely untouched.

The one notable change will find on the future side is the additional literary material credit, which membership voted in last year.

Basically, if you're participating in a writer on a feature film, you're name will show up in this new category of additional literary material,

if you don't receive another writing credit. And that's basically only a change. Almost everything that's episode is just as we described it.

So enjoy this trip back in time back when Apple Watchers had just come out and no one thought Donald Trump could possibly become president.

And in our bonus statement for premium members, producer Drew Markhart and I will discuss award shows and brainstorm possible ideas for a script notes award show.

I don't think there's necessarily going to be a script on the work show, but we'll talk through all the possibilities.

So if you're a premium member, stick around after the episode to hear that bonus segment. Enjoy.

Hello and welcome. My name is John August. My name is Craig Maezin.

And this is episode 193 of Script Notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Craig, you and I both this week were working on rewrites. How did yours turn out?

So far so good. I made it to the end. And it's always a good place to end.

Well, but you know, I'm fond of saying that the end are the two biggest lies that we can tell ourselves as screenwriters.

So all I've really done is reach the end. So now Lindsey Durand has the whole draft. I will be spending next week with her going through everything.

And then off it goes to Scott Frank into working title and to Universal. So you know, hi hopes. Hi, hopes. How about you?

Yeah, I was doing the paper edit this week. And so I'd like to print out the script and sort of go through it, page by page, really read it.

You know, do all that sort of noticing of typos and mistakes and then things I could cut, things I could change.

And then as I'm going through it and I figure out like these are the new scenes. This is what's swapping out there.

I will sort of write on the left hand page the new stuff that goes in there. So I'm just now typing in those changes. But I feel good about it.

Well, listen, man, I would like for our movies to be out at the same time. They're both family.

Oh, same weekend. Yeah, they're both family movies. So I think we should go ahead to head. It'll be the ultimate three page challenge.

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