Hey, this is John. Heads up that today's episode has just a little bit of swearing in it.

Hello and welcome, my name is John August.

My name is Craig Amazing.

And this is episode 646 of script notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

There are many software products aimed at the film and television industry and more in development.

But why do the bad ones persist and why is it so hard for the better ones to succeed?

Today on the show, we'll look at the challenges and

opportunities around making things that don't suck. Then is another round of the three-page challenge where we look at pages

submitted by our listeners and give our honest feedback.

And in our bonus segment for premium members, Magic, who needs it?

Are we talking the card game or a precedent?

We're talking about our D&D campaign at the moment, which is a 10 installments into a campaign without magic.

Right.

Yeah, let's discuss what's worked and what's not worked so well

and what's been surprising about that campaign.

Fairly niche topic, but honestly.

That's why it's a bonus segment.

And really our premium members should be playing D&D.

They're premium for God's sake.

They should pursue quality in their life.

I think in a more general sense though it's like what happens when you don't uphold some genre premises and when you sort of take anything.

So if you took a horror movie and dropped out some of the aspects of what you expect

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