If people like one of your scripts, listing all of them in your sig will help them find the others.  That's why I do it.


Phil

And if you have 30 screenplays up, than what? It's a screenwriting website so yeah I'd say why not have your screenplays in your signature.

If you have 30 screenplays up, you just have to pick your favorites... Then again, if you have 30 full screenplays and no sales, one has to wonder if you're not doing something right...

Seen several posts lately by people looking for feedback.

Just bumping this back up to remind people it is here, or to help some of the newer members find it.

Hi guys, I posted this elswhere on the board but this seems like the relevant thread.

I'm 30 odd pages in to feature length comedy/horror and I'm looking to get some feedback on what I have so far. I'm not posting it on this site because i dont think this is the place for incomplete scripts.

If anyone's willing to read it and give comments, I'd be happy to read and review a feature (or two) in exchange.

A little about the script:

Tagline: "Hell hath no fury like a pigeon scorned"

The Birds meets Shaun of the Dead

What's the title?

As I said it's not on the boards but I can email it to anyone who wants to read.

My working title is "Matt Among the Pigeons" (cheesy I know)

Gee...you mean there is somebody out there that doesn't want to sling their half-baked crapola up onto a board?

Why not do it as a three-part series?  People gripe (rightly, I think) about 25-page nonsense going up on the feature boards, but I haven't seen anybody complain about well thought-out stories going up piece-wise on the series board.  I am working on one myself.

Dress up your 30 pages and post it as Part I, with more to come.  Then you can get feedback as you go.  I would certainly read it there (it sounds...um...different?), and positive comments will probably generate more readers than pleas for e-mail fans.

Bert, I have. You may have missed the post but I know what the people have been doing, I mentioned it in another post, I think it's a bad idea because you make people wait so long and if you'll just make it a full script after the parts are up what was the point in the first place?

That means Don than has to take 3 down and replace them with 1, pointless but whatever people like.

Is it a big problem for Don?  Quite honestly, I have no idea what goes on at the other end of this keyboard.  I just thought it was, like, magic, you know?

My two motivations for suggesting this were (1) to keep the short stuff where it should go and (2) to get feedback DURING the creation process, before you spend months going down a blind alley that everybody hates when you are finally done.

I thought both of those were good reasons...

One recent one like this that comes to mind is Balt's M.M.M., and I thought you liked the way he was doing it?  

I like the way he writes, I may not agree with the way it's done but I can't help it, it's Balt. He releases so little and it's all that good you just have to come back, he does what he does very well. That's about it, but the fact that he gave us a date when he'll release the next part is the one thing that I mean.

He knows when his next part is coming, if he misses that date though he may lose some people.

I have no real problems with doing it this way, just the simple fact you make people wait longer than you promise they will not be back and that hurts you.

But if all you want is feedback just use that thread I started in work in progress, Balt is doing it that way for other reason's I believe. Like Dogglebe has said over and over don't release rough drafts, so if you use that thread in WIP you're not releasing it you're getting the help you need.