Turn No, No, No Notes to Yes, Yes, Yes!

Turn No, No, No Notes to Yes, Yes, Yes!

How to Write a Screenplay

Throughout your career as a writer, you will get notes. Hopefully you will receive some excellent notes that help elevate your material by offering news eyes and a fresh perspective. But I guarantee that you will get notes that you do not agree with. You will get notes that you do not understand. You will get notes that don’t make any sense. Of this, I am certain.

Everyone in the industry you come in contact with will have an opinion on your work — and they will be eager to voice it.  

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S-E-X Tips For Screenwriters: Conflicting Notes – What to do?

S-E-X Tips For Screenwriters: Conflicting Notes – What to do?

How to Write a Screenplay

I’m ready to tear my hair out. Script notes are going to leave me bald and bitter!

I put in a ton of work into the latest draft of my screenplay before sending it out to get feedback from fellow writers and from contest readers. The notes were completely in conflict with each other.

What one person loved, another person hated.

One person thought it was terrific, another had a ton of notes.

Some notes made sense, others made me question if they even understood what the story was about.

How is this possible?

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