Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

My name is Craig Nason.

And you listen to episode 697 of Script Notes.

It's a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, it's a new round of how would this be a movie?

We look at four stories in the news and examine their cinematic essences.

And in our bonus segment for premium members, let's talk about kindness, Craig. So the quality I feel like we're undervaluing and sometimes confusing and conflating with other things like niceness and politeness. But kindness is different. Yeah, it's sort of out of fashion, isn't it? Yeah, it is. But I think it's an evergreen value. So we'll talk about kindness.

Sure.

But most crucially and fundamentally, we have big news today. We are officially announcing the script notes book, long spoken about on this podcast, but it is now available for pre-order starting today as you were listening to this podcast. It's an actual book. It's an actual book. you've seen the PDF of it in that is typesets.

Oh, yeah.

Like the book is an object.

You could now hit somebody It's an actual book. It's an actual book. You've seen the PDF of it that is typeset.

Oh, yeah.

Like, the book is an object.

You could now hit somebody within the head.

It's real.

It's real.

So I don't have a physical book in front of me, but underneath the laptop here,

there is a copy of the German edition of Arlo Finch.

Yeah.

And so that is the size and dimension of the book.

Perfect. That's what it's going to feel like. It's a real book. You know, for a long time, we bemoan the state of screenwriting books. So, yeah, I think of all the screenwriting books on the shelf at the store, the virtual store, I think ours is the best. Yeah. I really do. I generally do, too. Yeah. So our book is 43 chapters.

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