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.
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
How to tell a screenwriter that her screenplay needs work
Two immutable facts of life for screenwriters: 1) Everybody has a script 2) Everybody is a critic Three, actually: 3) Some screenwriters are super-sensitive and aren’t quite ready to handle brutally honest feedback just yet As screenwriters, we’ve all done … 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
Is your ego keeping you from being a great screenwriter?
My animation writer friend Steve said yesterday “In Los Angeles, you’re either thinking in Spanish, or you’re thinking about your screenplay.” I don’t know about the Spanish part, but it got me thinking of a more interesting question: Are … Read More
The Top 5 Skills Needed to Be A Great Script Reader
My friend Lena made a snide comment about script reading yesterday over coffee. “Any monkey can be a script reader.” So I slung poo at her. Not really. But what I did do was to immediately step up into the … Read More
How to not to be a jerk when receiving script feedback
My company is comprised of a team of vastly different script analysts, with vastly different tastes and backgrounds, as is any good company offering script feedback. But where you go wrong as a screenwriter in choosing one of us script coverage companies … Read More
The “Am I A Mouthy Screenwriter?” Quiz
Sure, you’re a good screenwriter. But are you a rambling, mouthy screenwriter who can’t stop typing, can’t stop describing, can’t stop filling the page with redundant words and text blocks? Take my easy 5-question screenwriter quiz to see if you’ve got … Read More
5 Steps To Growing Thick Skin as a Screenwriter
From my perspective at Screenplay Readers, I see the odds that are stacked against screenwriters every day, with every script that comes in and piles up in our queue, and I can’t help but think that many of these screenwriters … Read More
The 5 Quick Questions That Will Make Any Script Tighter
If you’ve written a script, open up your script right now and turn to any page in the script. Read the scene. Then answer these questions below. This is the Scene-By-Scene Litmus Test you should run EVERY SCENE of your … Read More
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