Hello and welcome. My name is John August.

My name is Craig Mason.

And you'll listen to episode 719 of Script Notes. It's a podcast about screening and things that are interesting to screenwriters.

Today on the show, when is good enough, not enough? We'll discuss how you decide whether a particular occasion calls for your very best work or whether you're wasting your time. We'll also answer listener questions

on packaging, bleeping, and when you know you've got it or you don't. And in our bonus

segment for premium members, every year I come into a new long list of things to do. We'll talk

through what I did last year and why and my list for this new year. So organized. So organized. I try to be. Yeah, no, that's you. I don't remember the last time I made a New Year's resolution. Yeah, and so we've talked about it. I used to have not resolutions, but areas of interest. So like archery would make my area of interest. So I would do archery for a bit. I would do like Austrian white wines. Right.

So the thing we do now is Mike and I make a list of 25 or 26 things that together we're going to do over the course of the year. And we do those because we're efficient people who like knock things off lists. It's terrifying. I strongly recommend it for people. Also, in the bonus segment, I want to talk through what those are because the key is achievable, doable things.

Right.

Not like, do this thing more.

It's like, do this thing twice.

Right. So in the bonus segment, I want to talk through what those are because the key is achievable, doable things.

Right.

Not like, do this thing more.

It's like, do this thing twice.

Right.

Something that you feel like you can actually manage.

Yeah.

I mean, that's good. Modest, modest expectations. But we'll also talk through, I did a sort of year-end wrap-up of the stuff I did, including the fact that I played, I think, 42 sessions of D&D.

Not enough.

Not enough.

Nope.

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