If you have someone review one of your scripts and they do a rewrite, you intend to go with, should they be credited as the co-writer?

there is a thing called ghost writing where u pay a writer to write in your story but you get full credit for it. If you're not paying, then he is a co-writer if the writer wants credit for what he did to make it better

If you wrote the first draft and the story is yours they shouldn't get a full Co-writer credit. Maybe a small credit under another title but yes, they should get some credit depending on the role they play.

Two things here. First, you two should discuss it before hand to decide how you want to divide this. If it's too late for that, decide how much of the script was written by the rewriter. Be fair. It's a judgement call. If your rewriter rewrote a significant portion of your script, it's fair to give credit where credit is due. If all he did was redo dialogue here and there, then it seems less fair. At this stage (without the WGA), it's up to you guys.

You can give them a "Special Thanks!"

When I got friends to help with my script I thought of it like this. I spent 100+ hours working on it, and they read it once, and marked it up, maybe a total of 4 hours. They won't get credit, but if I am able to sell it one day I promised to take them all out for a steak dinner. Most of them agreed.

Thanks for the feedback, guys. I've decided I'm going to give the dude credit as the Co-writer of my short script Eternal Eclipse of the Criminal Mind. He emailed me and said that he'd read my script, thought it was pretty good, but reckoned he could make it better. So, I said, 'Sure go for it and if your contribution becomes significant enough, I'll give you credit as the Co-writer'.

He polished up the dialogue, re-jigged the structure and made it a better script. I still want to tinker with it a bit and then I'll submit what will be the third, and hopefully last, draft of Eternal Eclipse of the Criminal Mind.

I've only written two shorts in the last 10 months, so I really want to get cracking on something new.

You are a pretty good writer, man. Just need to write more often to grow those talents.

Don't spend too much time on one project, just move on and come back to it a few months later for those "updates"

And to answer your question from the PM, yes, I can do that when you post then rewrite.

Thanks, Wes; that's good advice. I find self doubt and procrastination to be my two biggest enemies. Also, my son is starting school next week, so hopefully I'll be able to do a bit writing during the days that I'm home, rather than trying to find the motivation at night, when half zonked.