Would you happen to have any resources for an amateur screenwriter looking to have a script critiqued? Without the chance of having the idea being poached?

writerlyn: For one thing, I would like to yell to the tree tops that it is very unlikely that it will be poached.  Very. If you’re really worried, register it with the WGA. Then from there, contact other writers, contact professors, contact anyone you know, have them give it a read and critique. Shouting in…

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amandaonwriting: Suggested Amazon Warning Labels For Books

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annerocious: Picking up that first draft to start rewrites.

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nerdijose: annerocious: nerdijose: I’m a writer with no grammar skills. That’s a perfect sentence, though. I wrote that sentence four different ways to see which one made more sense. Your fourth draft rocks.

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Pilot, Limited series or Feature?

The Rough Guide: Does your idea have a central conflict with a definite end? Feature Does your idea suggest hundreds of storylines based on its setting and character-based conflicts? Pilot Does your idea need ten hours to get through its central conflict to its definite end? Limited series

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New Business

…shouldn’t keep coming up in your script after pg 30. When you’re at sea in your second act, adding a new character or a storyline you haven’t set up feels like new energy, but it’s really an indication that you don’t know what to do with the story you already have. By all means, if…

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annerocious: of-spaceandstars: so like how do you stop writing utter trash ??? you never do. you just rewrite it.

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