Is your screenplay about the audience? Or is it all about you? My company has read a lot of scripts. Thousands. Hundreds of thousands! (Okay, well, not hundreds of thousands.) Good scripts, bad scripts, mediocre scripts. And they’ve all had their … Read More
How to Write Script Coverage for Your Own Screenplay
Have you ever considered giving yourself script coverage? Have you ever considered reading your own script and providing script coverage for it? Lo, and yea, and verily, the benefits can be massive, not just for the script itself, but for a screenwriter’s long-term ability to distance herself from her own work.
Screenwriters Groups – Pro’s and Con’s
I’m a huge fan of writers groups. Screenwriting, like all writing, is mostly a very lonely endeavor. One woman. One word processor. Or two, if you’re collaborating. But ironically, the end goal of all screenwriting has traditionally been a stack … Read More
6 Ways To Give Yourself Better Script Notes
Sitting down to do your screenplay rewrite? Awesome! Do you have some notes to go on? No? Alas, script notes are valuable, right? Getting anybody to read your spec script is often a bit of a challenge, but trying to get … Read More
The Differences Between Script Notes and Script Coverage
Script coverage and script notes are two different animals on their own, but are really not all that far apart… That is, until you have customers paying for one or the other who don’t know the difference. Script notes are … Read More
QUIZ: Will you know when your screenplay is actually finished?
Ah, your screenplay is finished. That “Save as PDF” command is just dying for you to click it. Getting your script out there is you’ve been working years toward. It’s that final moment when you can say “I’m done with this … Read More
