John and Craig reflect on the traits they’ve noticed in successful writing careers. Should you write everyday? Do you have to be good in a room? Is it more important to be original or flexible?

We also follow up on genres, typos and address a listener question on harassment.

In our bonus segment for premium members, we discuss our preferences in books from paper to bindings to jackets. No shock: we have opinions.

Links:

• Dungeons & Dragons Art & Arcana Book
• Heartbreaker and The Breaker Upperers
• Noah Evslin’s pitch for Guild Awards
• Ira Glass on Taste
• Women in Film helpline for sexual harassment and misconduct in the entertainment industry:(855)WIF-LINE (855-943-5463) or reach out online here
• Hometown Takeover
• Standard Ebooks
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• John August on Twitter
• Craig Mazin on Twitter
• John on Instagram
• Outro by Brian Ramos (send us yours!)
• Scriptnotes is produced by Megana Rao and edited by Matthew Chilelli.

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