Feedback is the single most important and best thing you can do for your screenplay. Be sure to gather notes from all sources: contest readers, professional script consultants or even (very objective and HONEST) industry friends. When you get that feedback, remember to look at it objectively, compare and contrast from all of your sources, and get to rewriting. Sometimes you gotta "kill your darlings" to make your good script the best it can be to get noticed. See below for further treats on how to work with your critiques from both consultants and producers and what to do when you get conflicting opinions. Enjoy the re-write process!

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If you're going to remake a beloved classic, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better adaptation than director Bill Condon's superb live action update of the 1991 animated "Beauty & the Beast." He and his screenwriters clearly adore the original and vividly recreate the spirit of its story and render songs like "Be Our Guest" and "Gaston" with eye-popping 2017 detail...  Listen Here

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Always Keep Improving

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Feedback From Contests is Gold

Use contests as a sounding board, just to see what kind of resonance you get. Choose contests that offer feedback, so at least this way you get something back for your entry fee. This is especially useful if you're still learning the craft.

~Lifetips

Get Your Script Polished

You can’t fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.”  

~Howard Hawks

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