Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

My name is Craig Mason.

It is episode 569 of ScriptNuts and podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting

to screenwriters.

Today on the show, how do you sit down to write? We'll discuss inspiration for this

motivation, both for your characters and for you as a writer.

We'll also talk about the phenomenon of show owners as promotional vehicles for their

shows. Does this elevate the writer creator or amount to unpaid labor?

And in our bonus that we're previewing members, insects. Why do we have insects?

Yeah.

Yeah.

But first, right before we start recording, I apparently changed your life.

So in case we have other people out there listening, talking through the problem and solution

and people's lives will be better.

I'm shook.

So, okay, for the last all of my life while I've been drinking coffee out of cups like

Starbucks, coffee bean, whatever.

Every now and again, I would say like half the time because I drink an Americano.

I'm a straight up black coffee kind of dude. Two shots. Two shots, John. Small size.

And about half the time, the frickin lid is like a dribble cup.

And there's just these drips that come out and they hit me on my shirt or my pants.

It's really annoying and hot.

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