0038: Scenes

This episode is brought to you by Steam Engine ExceloPow Mostly Raw Vegan Power Bars, exclusively available at Steam Engine Coffee! We’re thrilled to be back with the Steam Engine Coffee family—can’t remember why we decided to leave. What’s a scene? That’s what aspiring screenplay writers want to know; we get many private DMs asking us that very question. A scene is a little nugget of action that, when combined with many other nuggest, collectively form a unfied, sense-making screenplay. If you can’t sum up what’s happening in eight to ten sentences, you probably don’t have a scene. Nathan shares his Hare’s Rule, “Moving the Ball Down the Field,” which is essential for crafting a screenplay that flows. The guys do script surgery on “Black Panther,” and in Logline Cage Match Ryan pitches his idea “Detective Normal.”