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Rewrites and how many are too many?
How many times is it deemed acceptable to delete & rewrite scenes?
After some feedback, it's weirdly made me paranoid & I can't get scenes or even dialogue onto the page for a concept I had such a clear vision for.
Sharing my work is very new to me so maybe I'm being over sensitive and this is the w...
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Abi Baumann
- 18 hours ago
Jason Mirch thank you for the kind offer, I have emailed you
Abi Baumann
- 18 hours ago
Maurice Vaughan yes, next time I will definitely ask for advice from those more experienced. Which at this point would be most people.
Craig D Griffiths
- 13 hours ago
This may or may not work.
Delete the scene and read the entire screenplay. What does the story need. Can the things that scene achieves be done by just adding stuff to existing scenes. This will often...
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Cannon Rosenau
- 5 hours ago
Feedback is relative. I've had professional feedback for a comedy where the reader said that a certain running gag I had was over done. A notable producer that I'm working a deal with commented that t...
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When do you do the rewrites? Personally after finishing a draft I just walk away from it a while and work on something else, before going back. I usually can look at it new then.
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Outline vs 1st draft vs rewrites -- what do you love, what do you hate?
Why I LOVE outlining -- it's the first time I get to come up with a really cool story.
Why I LOVE writing a 1st draft -- it's the first time I get to create vibrant characters for that really cool story from before and give it a sort of life.
Why I HATE doing rewrites -- I am not the kind of person...
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Travis Seppala
- 1 day ago
Dan Guardino I've been at this for over 20 years. I will never get used to it. I just get so bored reading the same story (or reading the same book, or watching the same movie) over and over... even i...
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Phil Stubbs I have always thought the writers who "let the characters tell them the story" are completely delusional! lol The characters are your imagination, not some separate entity. When I write a...
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Dan Guardino
- 19 hours ago
Travis Seppala Rewriting screenplays is boring for me as well. Guess that is what makes it feel like just a job and that's not always fun especially if I don't like the screenplay.
Craig D Griffiths
- 13 hours ago
I love what I am doing, sounds dumb. But when I am outlining I am enjoying that. When I am
writing I am enjoying that.
Perhaps the final edit and polish I hate. I am dyslexic so I know I will miss out words or have issues with word order. So that gives me a little fear.
Cannon Rosenau
- 5 hours ago
Relatable. I' have my hubby read for typos, but I typically wait for rewrites when working with a producer. Because they will have changes anyhow.
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Simon Wakelin i no right lol !!!! love your Paul walker shots Btw Simon (:
Simon Wakelin
- 7 hours ago
thanks man —- yeah Paul was probably the most down to earth celebrity I ever worked with on set, he was the real deal
Simon Wakelin aww man what a legend ! are you still in LA Simon ? im in west hollywood if the universe brings it together lets grab a beer and chat about your iconic moments...
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Simon Wakelin
- 6 hours ago
Chase Cysco I’m in Thousand Oaks but one day for sure fella!
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I'm back to help offer advice!
Hey everyone! It is great to be posting after some time away. For those of you who don't know (this community grows every day, hour, minute...), my name is Jason and I was the Director of Script Services for Stage 32 for many years. I stepped away for a bit but now I am BACK in the capacity of a Wri...
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Congratulations on selling your script and all the accomplishments, Beverley Wood!
Congratulations on the progress, Rachel, Jim, and Ashley!
Congratulations on finishing your script, Chase Cysco!
Gabrielle Nehring
- 10 hours ago
Thrilled to see you back in the community more. We missed you!
Welcome back Jason! So happy to see your name pop up in the lounge again. Currently I am doing rewrites on three of my scripts.
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Getting Reads
Writers need to be read and they need an audience for their material. Today, I took a meeting reference my script "The Monk Who Would Be Spy" with John Thomas. It went well. All writers hope for glory, fame, money, simply a story that must be told. I write only stories I am passionate about beca...
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Phil Stubbs
- 10 hours ago
L. Tom Deaver... The main reason I login to this site is to find written comments like yours.. thank you.
Maurice Vaughan
- 10 hours ago
Congratulations on the incredible meeting and script request, L. Tom Deaver! Thanks for sharing the advice with the community.
L. Tom Deaver
- 10 hours ago
Thank you all. Happy writing. Now back to work following up on some suggestions John gave me.
Maurice Vaughan
- 10 hours ago
You're welcome, L. Tom Deaver.
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If you send a written pitch instead of a face time pitch, is there no meeting and written notes are emailed?
I tried to word that so it would make sense. Instead of a planned face time pitch, if you go with a written pitch, is there no live meeting and the professional will simply email a response or is there still a meeting?
M LaVoie Pure. Unadulterated. Truth. I love it.
Mark DePonte
- 14 hours ago
For STAGE32 staff...
PLEASE take note...
I suggest the following HYBRID Pitch option for all of us writers with no Hollywood type connections. (99% of us)
Offer a 3-Stage pitch process.
Step 1:. Submit 2-...
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^^^ Win-win for everyone. More $ for Execs
The world's second oldest profession - slavery. The world's oldest profession - Hollywood Exec. When lawyers joke, it always goes something like this "How many Hollywood Execs does it take to ruin the motion picture industry? Answer: ALL OF THEM."
Beverley Wood
- 11 hours ago
Total agreement, it would be better to do it face-to-face. I had written notes, and the notes were great, really great, I appreciated them very much. But there was something the reader missed that rea...
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Regular Deadline: 2nd Annual Palm Springs Women in Film & Television + Stage 32 Short Script Competition
Hey friends, today is the Regular Deadline for the 2nd Annual Palm Springs Women in Film & Television Stage 32 Short Script Competition. So now is the time to get your short scripts in for the chance to have your script made into a short with a budget of $10,000!
https://www.stage32.com/happy-writers...
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Sydney Summers
- 5 days ago
Thanks for letting us know
Anita Hogans
- 14 hours ago
I'm polishing mine up. I plan to submit.
Sydney Summers
- 13 hours ago
Best of luck to you Anita!
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What we see vs What we learn
This is more a thought than an actionable item.
We see someone get a shock from an outlet as a child. Perhaps we are scared of that room, or of holding a fork. Because the shock happened in a particular room and the person stuck a fork in the socket.
But that is an understanding based purely on obser...
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Maurice Vaughan
- 13 hours ago
Excellent advice, Craig D Griffiths! The note under the note/the note behind the note. Karen "Kay" Ross talks about that a lot (www.stage32.com/KRoss). Great minds think alike....
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CONGRATS! 19 Script Requests & 10 Meeting Requests Last Week!!! 5/7/24
Hey everyone! I wanted to congratulate our fellow community members who had scripts requested through Stage 32 pitch sessions last week. We are thrilled for the opportunities for the following writers to have their scripts requested by STX, Bluewater Lane Productions, Won Way Media, LINK Entertainme...
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Congratulations to everyone who got a script request and meeting request!
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Selling a screenplay
How can I sell my screenplay? Paying for coverage, consultation, and contests doesn’t seem to work. Any thoughts?
Hi, Mahyar Rasi. My best advice is to network/build relationships on Stage 32. Here are blogs about networking: www.stage32.com/blog/tags/networking-41...
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Cameron Tendaji
- 16 hours ago
Find a producer with great connections that can help you get your project packaged with great talent and/or a great director. And then you can shop the project and pray that a buyer likes the script,...
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Craig D Griffiths
- 13 hours ago
scriptrevolution.com is a start. Then you have to start trying to build some connections. How? That is different for everyone.
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Business risk anyone with cold head can expect...On the other hand movies get made at 200-300 mill and flop horribly...
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I saw this when he posted it. So encouraging!!!
Having just saw Alien in a theater last week it has held up wonderfully. Bad luck for American International.