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I have already made this as an Audio Book. I wrote the script originallly to be a film for an American Youtube Channel, Unfortunately Since the American Youtube channel who personally came and approached me never turned back to view the submissions. I made it as an Audiobook and released it for Vide...

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Dr. Oscar Ozbourne is a psycologist who meets a peculiar patient for councilling named Dorothy Gale. Why she is peculiar? She thinks He is a Wizard, He remembers He had met her in the Aunty's Motel where he turned the 10$ into 20$ Trick and paid for his sandwich. Dorothy says in the councilling that she wears a red ruby slippers gifted by her parents from New York and teleports to OZ stating there is no place like home. Where she met him as The Wizard of OZ. She met a scarecrow without a brain, and Oz said he has a brain because he can't think without a brain, A Cowardly Lion, to whom Oz said when Dorothy was kidnapped by flying monkeys he powerfully defeated them and that cannot happen without courage. A Tinman who doesn't have a heart protected Dorothy because he loves her and therefore he has a heart. And the way she killed Wicked Witch pouring water who is her Principal Margret in the real world. Oz Got the Tinman married to Dorothy and she came out of the OZ as her TInman husband became her High school sweatheart Butch Heartman, rest of her friends Billy Frost and Lynn strawman who were cowardly Lion and Scarecrow. Dr. Oz plays along Dorothy saying he forgot after coming away from Oz and aks her to refresh his memory where she says all this. Dr. Oz visits her barn where Aunty and Uncle Em say there is no such thing as Ruby slippers. Her parents who were Game developers in New York gifted a Play station Prometheous to the village students on Dorothy's Birthday where they can play a Hollographic game where they all where a Ruby slippers to kickstart the game choosing their own characters to play. Oz and his wife Glinda whom Dorothy believes is a good witch go to play the game where they realize it has manipulative brainwaves to make it believe its real and Dorothy is believing the game is true.

I currently have availability for new authors who are approaching the editing stage or already have a completed manuscript that needs a professional editorial eye.

Depending on the manuscript and the author's goals, the main stages of editing can include:

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Banafsheh Esmailzadeh

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I'm definitely all about internal conflict. I CAN write external but I find myself getting more frustrated than necessary so I usually don't do it xP

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I believe if a character had an internal struggle and has to deal wjth external struggles it puts more pressure on that character. It will allow a person to root for thst character. If it's a villain...

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I guess I like both...

David Hall

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- Maurice Vaughan
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Mark Greenlaw you just love putting your characters through hell lol. Totally agree, layers of conflict can really escalate the tension.

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- Maurice Vaughan
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David if you read my novel you would see.. lol

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- Maurice Vaughan
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I've been using Beat. I don't have much to compare it to, I tried Fade In but Beat seemed a little more straightforward. Previously I was using... Apple Notes. Moving huge chunks of dialogue around wi...

Philip Sedgwick

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- Maurice Vaughan
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Tim Mace A word doc is not the same. The margins are different. Scene numbers are not easy. I have formatted so many Word docs to script documents. For a feature, it's a full days work. Why build in p...

Tui, they don't force you. per se, but why subject yourself to that? Own your software, keep positive control of your scripts. Someone's cloud is not positive control. And as for cost, ask the damn company.

Tim Mace i use WriterDuet - I was using the free version but if memory serves me correct it limits you to 3 projects so I went to the standard fee and am very happy. Easy to export. To be fair, I don'...

Maurice Vaughan

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Hi, @Tim. I use Final Draft 12. I've also used WriterDuet.

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- Banafsheh Esmailzadeh
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Rewriting the storylines takes me the longest, @Grace. I also break the rewrite up into categories (A Story, B Story, Subplot(s), characters, dialogue, theme, etc.).

Improving pacing takes me longest, as does filling plot holes. I try to account for everything.

Susan Thornton

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- Maurice Vaughan
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This may sound a little crazy, acting out the roles. reading the dialogue as a performance of sorts. It’s rooted out bad dialogue pretty quickly!

Thompson Beyonce

For me, it's receiving thoughtful feedback and revising multiple drafts. The first draft gets the story on the page, but honest feedback and careful revision are what truly shape it into its strongest...

Christiana Williams

For me, it's receiving feedback. Every round of thoughtful notes helps me see the story from a fresh perspective and pushes my writing to a higher level. Great scripts are rarely written in one draft—they're refined through collaboration.

Grace Whitmore

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Hi, Great to meet you all, and I completely agree, constructive feedback really helps us grow as writers by showing us both strengths and areas to improve. Wishing you continued success with your projects!

Nirmal Parimi

For me , its the habit of pushing our imagination and thoughts beyond its limits and thinking out of box unlike others I don't agree with others feedback cause what we wrote is from our head others ca...

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- Grace Whitmore
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I've not sure if I've ever cut a scene because it raised the wrong questions, Grace Whitmore, but I've rewritten scenes to make things clearer.

Michael Dzurak

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"As." There are better, snappier ways to convey simultaneous action.

Also, adverbs. Often written in the first pass of a scene, then excise...

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Hi, Grace Whitmore. One of the words I overuse sometimes is "the," like at the start of an action line. Sometimes I'll drop"the" and just start an action line with a character.

"The agent races through...

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Say more with less.

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You're right, Grace Whitmore. The best editing tip I've ever received might be make action lines clear to the reader. Writers know more about their stories than other people, so sometimes we know what...

Johnson Alfred

Break up "talking heads scenes" with engaging images. The next few scripts that I read, I was on the look out for this, and boom, I transformed key s...

Michael Dzurak Absolutely. I’ve found that strong editing isn’t just about tightening dialogue, but also asking what the audience is experiencing visually and emotionally in each scene. Sometimes one...

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I’ve been reading into agents and managers recently and all I’ve got to say is they are stupid. I mean if your book is so good that it gets called “ahead of its time” then surely an agent should be re...

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60+ books is an incredible milestone, Steven—your passion and dedication to writing for the joy of it is truly inspiring! Keep creating!

Dave Writes

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I can understand your frustration. After nearly 900 queries over eight years and repeatedly hearing that your work is “too ahead of its time,” I can see why you’ve decided to stop chasing agents and f...

Enid Aames

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Lately I've been working on a couple of screenplays, one of which was inspired by a recent experience at a screenwriting workshop at Bryant Park. To some extent, it was also inspired by my attendance at a Playwrights Horizons performance.

60+ books and nearly 900 queries is an incredible body of work. What caught my attention is the repeated feedback that your stories are “too ahead of their time.” As a Book Editor & Story Consultant,...

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