Screenwriting : Readers? by Lauran Childs

Sure, I'll take a look.

Thanks! Can you send me your email? (Hey, the drug lord is Irish, maybe it's right for you...)

I always suggest people have readings of the scripts before sending them out to the wilds. I think it improves all scripts for writers by 50% at least. And that improves impressions and gives a realtime sense of how an audience would perceive it as a movie. Cheers!

Thanks Kenneth! OK I'm going to show my ignorance - what's a reading? People sit around and read it out?

I'd be keen... Sent you a friend req so we can get the ball rolling... :)

I'd like to thank the generosity of people here who have read and continue to offer to read my script. I thought it was finished but no, I'm getting a great education on how to make it better with some excellent criticism. Thank you so much everyone who has been helping!

A reading is a very important part of your script writing process. You get a group of actors to read the various roles in the script out loud so you can hear it more or less. You have to put your ego aside and only ask questions afterwards. Don't indulge answering why or what you want it to be so you can hear input...and I assure you that will alter your script. I attempt to do at least 3 readings of every script I am working on. It's very very important....about your 10th time having a reading you get really really good at how they work and your writing improves a great deal!

Thanks very much for the reply Kenneth! I'm thinking who I know who will read this out for me now... This'll be fun!

It is fun and you will get humbled...and you will learn to love that process if you do it enough times. You need to write at least 3 scripts before you really find your voice and groove. Readings keep you honest and connected to what an actual audience will likely respond to. We all get way to close to our work and just like a relationship in life, we project all manner of personal issues and indulgences in our scripts...but also like life...we can work thru them and grow if we listen and balance our voice to the outside input and work and work and work...those oddities and issues become interesting, little blessings to the story and just like in relationships, we mature with our art. That's the whole point of doing this stuff...not just selling it to Brad Pitt and making millions (although that is nice too!). GOOD LUCK!

Sure send away.. Andrew@indyoh.com

I agree with all that Kenneth says.