DZ-39: Backmatter - Hitting LA, Receiving Feedback, and a Roguish One

Listen if you're about to network at a festival and have no idea what writers actually do with their time there.

In another backmatter-only episode, Stu & Chas zig-zag through a range of topics. We talk about Chas' experience(s) hitting both Los Angeles and the Austin Film Festival, effective networking, career capital, the art of receiving feedback, and Stu's harsh Three Strikes Rule. We look back at the most important lessons we've learned about storytelling in 2016 and that leads us to talk about character choices in a little-known and little-talked about film called ROGUE ONE.

And, of course, we open the listener mail box for critiques, praise, suggestions and follow-up to earlier episodes -- especially our Exposition two-parter.

Thanks to everyone for their support in 2016! We look forward to erratically bringing you new episodes this year.

As always: SPOILERS ABOUND and all copyright material used under fair use for educational purposes.

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FILMS

• ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016) — (w) John Knoll, Chris Weitz, Gary Whitta, Tony Gilroy (d) Gareth Edwards

LINKS

• Read: Urban Dictionary: Career Capital
• Read: Forbes: 7 Steps To Developing Career Capital -- And Achieving Success
• Read: Music Bed: Creative Critique - The Art of Receiving Feedback
• Read: Yahoo UK: Rogue One's editors reveal the scenes added in the Star Wars standalone reshoots (exclusive)
• Read: Mamo 459: Rogue Two Podcast
• Read: Super Ticket 8: Rowgue Three
• Read: Vashi Visuals: ROGUE ONE - 46 SHOTS NOT IN THE FINAL FILM
• Read: Destroy All Monsters: The Meme-ification of ROGUE ONE

EPISODES IN THE BACKMATTER SERIES

• DZ-39: Backmatter - Hitting LA, Receiving Feedback, and a Roguish One

RELATED EPISODES

• DZ-20: Writing Strong Secondary Characters - Trinity, Bechdel and a Bamboo Killer
• DZ-34: Game of Choices - Decision Making and Character Implications
• DZ-37: Excelling at Exposition (Part 1)
• DZ-38: Excelling at Exposition (Part 2)

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Full show notes at: https://draft-zero.com/2017/dz-39/