My goal for coverage was to see if I was in the ballpark of looking like a screenwriter. I think I'm inside the park, but now I need to find my seats. Tons of work to do (which is always the case); excited it wasn't torn to shreds. Any advice on making the most out your rewrites that stem from feedback? My favorite part, just for a quick feel good before getting back to work: "the writer has a pared back description format that keeps us reading and moving forward without being bogged down in unnecessary details. The script has a conciseness that is refreshing, and the dialogue-heavy nature of things never becomes overly apparent or detrimental." Writer: Consider Script: Pass
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I would take that as positive, go forth and prosper!!
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Thanks, both of you. @CJ - I feel pretty comfortable that the style of writing is my own and I'm going to work within my voice on this (I write constantly in other people's voices for my day job in marketing). And with the notes here, I feel like it works well enough that if I add some depth to story/characters I'll have a nice piece to market. The producer provided some good specific notes on pieces I inherently knew were shortcomings, but didn't have a clear way to articulate what was missing or how to go about attacking it.
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How exciting!
Nicely done! That's not too shabs, just work on the rewrite... what I find works best is outlining your rewrite pretty hardcore. If you just free-write it, you'll find yourself going off on every tangent imaginable, and trying to address every note you've ever received on it. Outline your changes, have a plan going in and stick with it to the end. If you need to do another rewrite after that one, then do what ya gotta do!
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I look at what is being said. If they say a section is slow. Try and see why; has the point been made previously so the current scene seems slow. Was the point made early in the scene and I didn't leave when I had to leave. I have in a rewrite written a separate document which was a prose description of each scene and looked for wasted scenes. Once I that was done I then walked through one function at a time. Dialogue pass Transition pass Action pass Until I was sure each bit was as good as it could be. Then done. The horse is dead. I sell its meat and move on. Not one for flogging a dead horse.