Tuesday, November 11, 2008

FYI, friend of the blog Joel Haber, a professional studio script reader (and blogger!), is running a 10% sale on his script analyses...

A great script analyst can take your script up quite a bit -- and if you take all the feedback very much to heart, can take your screenwriting chops up a couple of notches too. Just make sure you make clear to your analyst that you don't want to hear how wonderful and promising you are as a writer, you want the real notes. One of the key skills any good writer develops is the ability to really hear criticism. Good writers get depressed over negative coverage too, but they listen, absorb, and after moping a bit, get cracking on the rewrite.

Don't hire an analyst with the hope that they're going to sell your script for you. That's not their job. Their job is to tell you what needs fixing. But it is probably true that if your script is really commercial, any serious script reader -- one hooked into showbiz -- will know a few places to send it.

Labels: script analysis

9:20 AM

1 Comments:

Hey Alex! Thanks so much for spreading the word!

And for those who are wondering, I would consider myself in line with the points Alex makes here about script analysts. And my prior clients would back me up on that! :-)

By  Fun Joel, at 11:18 AM  

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