559 - Dating Your Writing Partner

<p>John and Craig weigh in on writing partner romances, voice-y scripts, character chemistry and end-of-draft treats in this week’s listener questions.</p> <p>We also host a round of How Would This Be A Movie, featuring stories on treasure hunts, jailed activists, and a sports scam. We look at how these news articles would translate to film/television and most importantly, whether they should be adapted at all.</p> <p>In our bonus segment the guys share hacks for remembering new people and make a pitch for name tags on set.</p> <p>Links:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/salaciousscribe">Eric Webb’s Twitter</a> and <a href= "https://www.gofundme.com/f/lay-a-beloved-writer-friend-and-partner-to-rest">Memorial Fundraiser</a></li> <li><a href= "https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/may/13/the-mystery-of-the-buried-owl-the-30-year-treasure-hunt-baffling-french-puzzlers"> Mystery of the Buried Owl</a> by Phil Hoad for the Guardian</li> <li><a href= "https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/02/09/rodney-stotts-one-of-the-few-black-master-falconers-in-america/"> Rodney Stotts Used to Hustle Drugs in Southeast DC. Now He’s One of the Few Black Master Falconers in America</a> by Rodney Stotts for the Washingtonian</li> <li><a href= "https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/08/chevron-amazon-ecuador-steven-donziger-erin-brockovich"> This lawyer should be world-famous for his battle with Chevron – but he’s in jail</a> by Erin Brockovich for the Guardian</li> <li><a href= "https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/12/world/asia/fake-indian-cricket-league-russia.html"> It Really Wasn’t Cricket: The Strange Case of the Fake Indian Premier League</a> by Sameer Yasir for the NY Times</li> <li><a href="http://werewords.com/">Werewords</a> Game</li> <li><a href= "https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018684-classic-tiramisu">Tiramisu</a> Recipe in the New York Times</li> <li><a href= "https://cottonbureau.com/people/scriptnotes-podcast">Get a Scriptnotes T-shirt!</a></li> <li><a href="https://inneresting.substack.com/">Si