How do you know if your script is done properly or is even good? I have done the script according to Celtx, which is supposedly the right Format. Being a newcomer, how am I to find out, according to me it's a great script, but then again everybody's script is great according to it's writer. I've written five scripts, starting a new one, but before I start I would like to know if I'm on the right track. So the big question, is how do I find someone to look at it and say, yeah that's okay or you have no idea what you're doing. PS, I'm poorer than poor, and can't afford to pay. What can I do? David Smart
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David, check out Scriptnurse (Donnelly Bledsoe). He'll put you on the right track, and tell you how you're doing as you go. He's a great guy, altruistic, kind.
thanks, I'll check it out.
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It's tricky if you can't afford to pay, but here are a few tips, David. Solicit a mutual peer review swap. This is where you try and find someone in a similar position and you both review each others work. Join a writers group or writers forum where they conduct note exchanges. Over on the DoneDealPro website you can join the forum and post a few pages for other writers to feedback on. See if your local library has any (or can get any) good screenwriting books which you can read through and apply to your work.
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You should join or create a writers group. The other members could tell you how far your script is and give you feedback. FYI - I'm always rewriting my scripts, even if it's just little tweeks here and there.
Hi Alle, One of the scripts is a prequal to a Detective series which ran in the Seventy's, I made it into a Feature, another is my first script which was written for TV, while I was taking a writing course. My third was creating world for an illustrator I've downloaded my script with my log line here onstage 32. That's the script that's done, the one that's for sale. While I'm waiting to have someone let me know what they think. I like to keep busy, so I'm writing a Sci-fi, eventually I'll get them seen, plus doesn't hurt to have scripts done on the side if the script doesn't fit one they may ask do you have others.
I echo what Alle says. I made a short film last fall. Not great, but not bad, it was my first time behind a camera. I just needed to get something done so that I would have a tangible object (a DVD) that I could show people. I'm looking to make a second one this summer. The feeling of getting something DONE was great. Filming your own work will also get you involved in editing, which is the final input of story telling in cinema. Editing footage is very different from editing words on paper. Also, the script is never done. It is a beginning. Chinatown is one of the best of all time, and Roman Polanski made about ten pages of changes and deletions to that script. If Chinatown is not done, nothing is.
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Hey david - I'm with CJ - finding a writers group to share work and exchange feedback is the way to go. Scriptmag just started one on Facebook http://www.scriptmag.com/features/join-scriptmag-writers-groups and there's also the Blacklist's Blackboard http://theblackboard.blcklst.com/ good luck and happy writing!