Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

Oh, my name is Craig Mason.

And this episode 564 of Script Notes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are

interesting to screenwriters. Today on the show, we'll be answering questions from listeners

who seem to be on the cusp of a career breakthrough. Or are they?

No, we'll try to sort out what's real from what's fantasy. And in our bonus segment for

the pre-members, we'll talk about iterating and failing fast. Is there a way to apply this

classic startup guidance to writing?

I didn't even know that that was classic startup guidance.

Yeah, the idea of like, you know, these startup companies, you want to sort of get a product

out there really quickly to see if it works and then you can iterate on it. So rather

than spending, you know, a year developing a thing, get something out in like two months

and see like, okay, is there even a market for this?

Got it.

All right, well, we'll dig into that. But only for the people that pay through the

nose.

Yeah, paying through the nose at $5.

$5.

$5.

But before we get to any of that, we have to talk about some stuff happening on HBO

Max.

Not happening on HBO Max now.

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