John, sorry to drag you in here, but I was just trying to give your script a bump and get some discussion going for you.

George, I'm sorry, but I totally have to disagree with you for several reasons.

1)  AoD left numerous reviews yesterday before he started this thread.  None of them had anything to do with what he talked about in his thread.  So, basically he is a complete hypocrite, yet he continually "accused" "us" of being various things we are not.

2)  His review of my script was a complete joke and read more like a personal attack then anything else.  In fact, I received a PM from a mod who asked me if I wanted to respond to it, or if I wanted him to delete it.  It was pretty blatant what the comments were meant to do.

3)  When I saw this thread, I merely called him out, based on #'s 1 and 2 above, and he not only couldn't address them, but he got very pissy and became one huge A-Hole/braggart.  No way was I going to sit back and keep my mouth shut.

4)  Even the tone of the initial post on this thread is very condescending, and downright odd, if you ask me.  I'm really surprised you don't, or didn't see that.

I hate to think you or anyone else sees me as the culprit here.  But then again, if I'm in a bar, and a bar fight breaks out that has anything to do with anyone I'm with, you can bet I'll be swinging for the fence and be one of the last to calm my ass down.

I apologize again for my part in this mess.  I definitely do not like when things go the way this did.

AOD if you're still out there, listen to the Simply Radio podcast titled "The Inner Sanctum, 2-27-10" featuring a professional script reader.   Youre question was answered.  Also check out "Interview With Babz, 6-11-10".  

Good stuff.

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-RadioSimply/

Sometimes the best response to provocation is to say nothing at all. That way, no one will be in doubt as to any fault.

Sometimes reviews are jokes. Sometimes, they say nothing. That's when you thank the reader and move on.

Sometimes a good point is made even by one hypocritical of his own words. I can make up all kinds of legitimate reasons why someone would make such a comment, both good and bad.

Personally, if I'd got off on the wrong foot and then made a point that a lot of people agreed with only to be smacked down for something else I'd said somewhere else, I'd be pretty pissed off too. Gotta stay on topic.

I was not so blind as to not catch the apparent condescension, but condescending though his first post may have come off, remember that it is difficult to determine tone in a message board post. Some people haven't mastered the art of conveyed tone in their writing. This is ironic considering that this is a site of writers.

And there are several people who are completely the way he made some people out to be. I wasn't the only one to agree. No, not ALL of us, but some. It is because format is easy to critique that some people will go down that road first. He hasn't been around long enough to realize that we all start out with attacking format because it is easy to write a long review containing the page numbers of every editing issue. Most of the time, there is some story stuff smattered in there, but I admit that my early reviews were at least half to three-quarters just editing crap. My current reviews have no page numbers and only go over the story. It's an evolution, and he simply hasn't gone far enough back to see that the evolution exists.