Yes, yes, the film's a mystery, but you know what the real mystery to me is? How the heck

Ryan Johnson gets all of his notes collated out of his handwritten notebooks and so perfectly

into his screenplays? Howdy? I'm Jeff Goldsmith, and this is the Q&A. My agenda is simple. Each

week I plan to bring you in-depth insight into the creative process of storytelling. And folks,

I love Glass Onion. This is a great

flick. And I'm not joking, man, even though we talk about it in this interview, maybe it's just

because I'm such a disorganized person. And for my own writing and for anything I'm doing,

actually, handwritten notes have always been a killer and Ryan Johnson fills up entire journals

as you'll hear us discuss and we kind of get a little into the subconscious about what goes

into the journal and how your mind interprets seeing you write that down and then later having

your memory call it back when you're writing your script. So it's an

interesting process, and I was really glad that we got to geek out and talk about it. You know,

it's so cool if you watch the Zoom video of this on the Backstory Magazine YouTube page,

at one point, Ryan grabs one of his journals and starts flipping through it and showing pages

to the camera. And it was a cool enough

moment that we talked afterwards. And here's the good news. Ryan Johnson was kind enough to supply

us with an exclusive image that we could use of the backstory site so that you could take a peek

into the first half of his handwritten outline for Glass Onion. You'll also be able to read

the screenplay in its entirety through our website,

courtesy of Netflix. And if you really want to go for it, and I hope you do, Associate Editor Danny

Manso interviewed Ryan for an article in Backstory Magazine using a completely different set of

questions from this podcast. So you could get even further insight by becoming a subscriber.

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