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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…

I’m not currently terribly active, but I’m a top reviewer over at Talentville,  a community for screenwriters developed by Final Draft creator Ben Cahan. Last May, I got tired of seeing exceedingly…