Bitter Much?

This short vid tickled me…

Keep writing everybody wherever you are…

via RolandD

Maybe now is a good time to share Ted Hope’s 10 Things To Do Before You Submit A Script.

#1) Cut at least another 10% of the script. Even when you think you are finished, there’s always another 10% that can come out.

#2) Clarify what you feel the themes are and how they evolve during the course of the narrative.

#3) Figure out some of the ways that the story can be expanded onto other platforms.

#4) Know what the historical precedents are for your story and how you differ from them in how you have chosen to tell it.

#5) Review the script from each characters’ point of view and make sure that their dialogue and actions remain emotionally true for each of them in their different situations.

#6) Recognize what some of the mysteries contained within both the characters and story are that you are committed to protecting — as not everything should be explained.

#7) Understand why you are truly prepared to tell this story at this time – or not.

#8) Make the world that the characters inhabit truly authentic; don’t just give them jobs or apartments or hip music to listen to.

#9) Make it somehow provocative, intriguing, audacious, or thought provoking — something that will make it stand out.

#10) Make sure it is more than just a good story told well. Be truly ambitious. Take us somewhere new, or take us there in a new way.

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