Quoted from Grandma Bear Thanks Dave. You're being very kind.   This thing was relaitively inexpensive, so I'm not too upset. I did pay extra though, $29 for studio notes and I do NOT feel these were studio notes or anywhere near. I would not be surprised if this comp fails and fades away.

It just kind of pissed me off Pia - you're an experienced seen it all writer - can you imagine how they are crushing talented newbies who are taking their advice seriously??

The first ten pages in particular were delicious. There is no effing way you can read them and not want to know what happens next.

I agree - they are going to FADE OUT as a competition.

Quoted from MarkRenshaw This is why there are so many movies and TV show out there which starts off with an exciting scene and then goes SUPER - THREE DAYS EARLIER Because script readers want EVERYTHING in the first ten pages. Character development, hook, plot, depth, voice and of course, you don't always get all of that at the beginning of a story... but they expect it all in ten pages. It is so frustrating.

It is true - but idiotic and deforms natural storytelling.  I've read a ton of scripts that lull at the midpoint because the writer shot their wad in the opening ten pages. I have empathy for them as I know why they bastardized their story from it's natural order.

The paradigm has somehow become that you must effing sell your script within the first ten pages. It should simply be that by the time you get to page 10 - you want to continue to page 11 - rinse and repeat.  I know that is not the world we live in - but it should be. It's like if they wanted all singers to open their songs with the closing crescendo.