Hello and welcome. My name is John August. My name is Craig Mason. And you're listening to

episode 701 of Script Notes. It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting.

To screenwriters, today on the show, how do you leverage connections to get work and help others get work?

We'll discuss these sometimes uncomfortable aspects of getting writing jobs and really almost any kind of job. We'll also talk about the surprisingly

good news for future writers in the recently released WJ numbers. Then we'll answer more

listener questions we didn't get to in last week's live show. And in our bonus segment for

premium members, Craig, let's continue our discussion of connections with literal connections,

this being Lego.

Here we are looking at some Lego flowers.

Yes.

So we've talked about Lego in a general sense over the 700 episodes of the podcast, but I want to have a deep-dive discussion on Lego and our philosophies regarding Lego.

Okay. Because there's the Lego we grew up with and then it's Lego now and how you're treating treating these bricks or assembling. I'm always here to

discuss Lego, the plural of which is apparently Lego, which I love. Yeah. Some news. The script

notes book is now up on Goodreads. And so if you're a person who uses Goodreads to review your

books, you can mark that as a want to read and just helps people remember that, oh, this is a book that people want to read. So we look forward to hopefully some very positive good reads reviews once the book is out there in the world. But for now, a thing you can do is market as want to read. You can also pre-order the book and send it to Drew the receipt. Right before we got on microphones, we were talking through a special thing we're

doing for all those people who sent us to their receipts. We don't have enough. No, we do. We have a lot. It's been, it's a chore for Drew to store them, but it's a chore you love. I love it. Oh, yeah, I can tell he loves it. Yeah, yeah. See the twinkle in my eyes? It's always fun when you're like, but you love it, right? Don't just love it? So good. I said you love it.

Very excited. you love it.

Very excited.

Keep loving it.

We have a bit of follow-up here because last week was our 700th episode. It was a live show. It was so much fun to do. It's on YouTube, so thank you for everyone who participated in that. but we forgot one thing from last week,

which was that we actually had a thing

we were supposed to do and open

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