Hey friends! I hear the most critical assessment of any script, is the first ten pages... So each day I will upload a page. Just tell me know what you think? Cool?
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Yes, but it's the first ten as a whole, not page by page. Many busy readers or producers do a "10/20" read, meaning the first ten and last twenty pages.
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That is said a lot. But I have also heard big time producers say "just make me want to turn the page". That means every page, from 11 all the way to 120.
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Leontist, if I were you, I would wait until I had the first 10-15 done to the best that they can be before I'd release them. Most people don't want to read a page, then the next day read another. By the next day, we forgot what we read yesterday and have to reread the first again. There's too much going on to remember what happens in everyone's script to concentrate on a page by page basis.
Yeah just wait to post the whole 10 pages.
Erik A. Jacobson, I never heard of the 10/20 rule. Now I want to read my own script like that.
I would wait until you had the full script done, copyrighted, and then start to release it. The copyright is the biggest thing, because if you release pages and someone else takes your work and then copyrights it then it becomes a huge mess and can even prevent the script from being bought.
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Double down on Owen's comment. Ask 10 aspiring Writers and you get 10 different responses. Develop your own BS detector of your writing. Instinctively know what will work and won't work. Spend time face to face with Writers. I don't believe doing online writing forums.
That's a great response Judy Bednarek
Judy is dead on. Your written work is automatically copyrighted the moment you put it to computer or paper. If your work is "no" good - nobody is going to steal it. If your work is really good - no one is going to steal it. If it's good, it's a whole lot less risky/expensive to just buy it from you - to do with whatever they like. Professionals are not greedy; they understand the risk (and expenses) associated with theft of creative work.
Leontist, if youre looking to see if youre on the right path and will grab readers/execs attention, i do a First Act Consult over at No BullScript that isnt costly but can save you lots of time before you write the whole script. feel free to msg me!
When asking for people to read your script ask them quality questions that will help you sort out your next rewrite. I make a list of 5-10 questions to close friends of mine as I have a network from when I graduated the New School for Screenwriting. Anyone can say "That was great," which gives you zero the hero feedback whatsoever. It's like a professional body builder and the guy who goes to the gym everyday. They can both look in amazing shape, but the guy with the IFB Pro Card is the guy whose truly in the game. To get your chops down you have to play up and I would say take Danny "The Main Vein" Manus on his offer that way you are in better hands when you cough for the nurse on your next rewrite. Hope that helps! Now, turn the other way and cough. YEAH!
Warm Regards,
Native New Yorker
RJN
Like your approach Raymond J. Negron