Introduce Yourself : Actor, Playwright, Screenwriter by Aileen Kilburn

Hi! It's Aileen 'been around a long time' Kilburn again. Borrowing a line from "The Big Knife." Saw a complaint about a critique. Just wanted to say 'coverage' is always good if you know how to use it. First of all you must know your characters and what you're aiming for in your story. And know that the reader is only giving suggestions--granted some are idiotic but it's up to you to know what to take and what to ignore. If he/she suggests you get rid of a character, they could be right but if it's a character you feel is necessary, what you do is rewrite the part so that the character is indispensable. It's always a shock when you think your script is ready to go and a reader finds a million things wrong. Pout for a day or two then get to work writing the story YOU want to write. I learned this lesson after years of changing my story according to anybody and everybody's suggestions and then ending up with a "billowing bale of bovine fodder" as the wizard said in "The Wizard of Oz." It's probably why there's such a thing as 'development hell' that I read about at Stage 32. WELCOME EVERYONE!