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A review of a Historical Western script for Talentville member Andy Froemke. This one was one of, if not THE, top script at Talentville in 2014. Feel free to visit Andy’s website. He’s…

Here’s a review I did last year for T’ville member Scott Vasey. He’s since revamped the script with all the reviews received by myself and over a dozen other reviewers… and to…

And here we reach the final sections. Writing Style is a slider… Wrap-Up is just an extra category that I created to let me talk about stuff that didn’t fit elsewhere. WRITING…

As with Character, the dialogue’s a little short on points: Do the characters speak with unique voices, not just with affectations and speech patterns, but do they speak from a worldview specific…

Ah. Structure. I think that could be a book unto itself. Certainly there are different schools of thought. To many, and really, myself, typically structure is all about the types of events…

Well… I must admit, I was surprised to see how short my section on characters was in the checklist. I find myself checking to see if something was deleted. But, nope. It…

The second area with the sliding scale (1-10) on Talentville is Story. There’s definitely a lot here: Did you just read a story or a collection of scenes? Big difference. While I don’t…

One of the areas you mark a script at Talentville is on Concept. I assembled the following list of prompts to help the reviewer (usually me) delve into whether the concept (the…