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🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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John and Craig host another round of the Three Page Challenge where they look at listener pages and offer feedback on what’s working and how to avoid common pitfalls. They discuss writing gore, finding your tone, and introducing a character’s problem.
We also follow up on villains, pirates and European script consultants. We then ponder a long-nagging question: why do all action heroes have names that begin with J?
In our bonus segment for premium members, we talk about our experiences with anesthesia and how people are knocked out in The Last of Us.
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0:00.0 | Hey, this is John heads up that today's episode has just a little bit of swearing in it |
0:07.0 | Hello, and welcome my name is John August |
0:09.5 | My name is Craig Mason and this is episode 592 of script notes a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters today on the show |
0:18.8 | Why are action heroes named John and not Craig? Oh, we'll dig into the mystery of the J names |
0:23.3 | And why you see so many jacks and jakes and jows and so few crags. I'm sorry |
0:29.3 | Yeah, but even one hero not only are there no crags |
0:35.0 | But do you remember when we were kids and you would go to like a theme park or something and there would be the big rack of |
0:41.6 | Personalized miniature license plates license plates. Yeah, and they just find boards, but no Craig right you could find board |
0:48.6 | Yeah, exactly but Craig was rare even back when Craig was a name that some people had it was rare |
0:54.4 | Whereas you never had a problem never had that issue was there an age was or not an age both options are always available |
1:01.5 | Right. Yeah, exactly you literally had variations on your name and I had nothing |
1:08.0 | After that discussion will get into another round of the three page challenge |
1:11.2 | We're gonna take a look at pages sent in by our listeners and give our honest feedback |
1:14.9 | We'll also be answering the listener questions on research options and work for hire |
1:19.3 | Okay, in our bonus segment for premium members Craig. Let's talk anesthesia. Oh good |
1:23.6 | I recently went under the knife and wow Craig those drugs are good |
1:27.5 | Yes, they are |
1:31.6 | Happily we don't have access to them. Yeah |
1:35.0 | No, no, and the people who do have access to them like the Michael Jackson people who have access to them when they shouldn't |
1:40.8 | Bees knows it's bad. Well, we'll get into that. We'll get into that |
1:44.3 | I don't want to give this away to the people that don't spend the $5 a month |
1:47.7 | You know what you don't get it good, but you know you get a quality show full of many other things |
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