OT - Script-Writing Programs

[Tom Kirshbaum]

>> Brava, Erica. I imagine that buying script-writing software if you don't
>> already write well is equivalent to buying a diet and exercise book if you
>> aren't already in good shape.
>> 
>> Tom
> 
> Actually, a diet and exercise book is an excellent expenditure on the road
> to health, weight loss and nutrition.  Why would you even need those books
> if you were in good health and shape?  Flawed analogy...

No, I meant what I said, though a touch ironically. Most overweight,
out-of-shape people (like me) have a shelf full of exercise and diet books,
which obviously haven't worked. They have started one book or one plan after
another and then let it slide. The success rate with books like that must be
very nearly zero, or there wouldn't be hundreds on the market, with dozens
of new ones coming out every year.

I think the only people who succeed in benefiting from such books are
disciplined and accustomed to watching their diet and keeping up with
exercise already, in which case the books might help them touch up their
already successful diet or exercise regimens. But that's about it.

See the analogy now? A script-writing program might be of some help to
someone who already writes well, but will soon be gathering dust on the
shelf, as it were, if its purchaser is not already an adept writer.

Tom