Hello, and welcome. My name is John August, and this is episode 609 of ScriptNets, a podcast

about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today's episode is the

clip show, but I wanted to spend a few minutes to talk about how we got you this clip show.

So often, these clips shows come out of work we're doing in the office on other things.

This stemmed from a conversation we were having yesterday. Chris Sank, who does our newsletters,

working on issue about dialogue and character voice, started a whole conversation about the

difference between a writer's character voice and what the actor brings to that voice.

And true, you would actually had some research before this because you guys were working

on chapters about this for the book.

Yeah, our summer intern, Hallie Lamberson, was putting together a chapter on writing

dialogue, and this conversation started ringing some bells, so went back and look through

it and found some really wonderful gems to sort of talk about character voice and writing

for actors. So in any of these clips shows, we're sort of traveling through time.

So we have 10 years of ScriptNets, which episodes are you plucking from here?

We're starting with episode 37, which was ages ago. It's very fun to hear you guys

and sort of how you've changed. We're talking there about sort of the four general rules

of character voice. Then we're going to go up to episode 286 where we're going to talk

about the history of dialogue and sort of expand on the idea of character voice.

Then episode 371 where Craig, who had started acting at that point, was talking about what

makes dialogue easy to memorize. And then we move to how to make sure you're doing right

by all the characters in a scene and keeping everyone engaged.

Fantastic. And for our premium members, what kind of bonus segment will they get at the

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