Quoted from DanC I looked at the voting and saw that you didn't get any votes yet. Don't feel bad.  When I joined and entered my first event, I did terrible.  Not one person had anything nice to say about it.   Writing is hard.   If it was easy, everyone would do it.  It takes dedication and super hard work.  And you have to reinvent yourself over and over.  Writing changed all the time. So you have to continually get better.  So don't feel bad.  Instead, use this to channel the feelings you have and use those and the writing tips to get better. A few recently told me that they feel that I've improved a lot.  It takes time and hard work.   You can't alter what you wrote, but you can change what you do in the future.  Write better tomorrow than you did today and before you know it, you will be fine. Dan

I agree. Half the battle is making the script 'look' clean. Heck, I still have tons of issues with mine and people tell me every time.

Keep trying, you'll get there.

Thanks guys. I dont even know if I'm supposed to say anything right now because we're supposed to be anonymous, but I know I'm not going to the next round. This showed me a lot about my writing and myself. I'm going to continue to study the craft, and learn as much as I can learn to become a better writer. I'm beginner, so writing on the fly was a pretty difficult task, but I will get better. Thanks again for the inspiration.

Don't take this hard, Isiah. These are tough challenges with a tough audience. Your take aways are up to you but the lessons, comments and suggestions you get from your fellow writers is priceless. We look forward to seeing you in the next challenge!

Quoted from JEStaats Don't take this hard, Isiah. These are tough challenges with a tough audience. Your take aways are up to you but the lessons, comments and suggestions you get from your fellow writers is priceless. We look forward to seeing you in the next challenge!

Isiah
     I agree with John.  Learn from everything you do.  Take these ideas and use them to build and craft better stories that make sense.  Make every word, scene, character, action necessary in the story.

I once heard that if writing a novel is an orgy of words (meaning you start off with a fee words, more come over, they multiply, the numbers grow until you have a full-fledged novel) then a screenplay is a dual of words (meaning that you cash write a thousand page novel and it might sell, no one can write a 300 page screenplay and expect it to sell).  Every word has to fight for it's right to exist in your story.

Watch out for orphans and typos, and adverbs and adjectives and all unnecessary words.  Cute descriptions won't sell anything.  Having a story your reader can't put down will Gert it sold.

Good luck
Dan

PS. If I cash help feel free to ask and believe me when I say many many others on here will to.

Every single writer in the entire world has written stuff that people didn't like. Comes with the territory. I agree with the others, and it's good that you are taking this as an opportunity to learn rather than an excuse to stop. Having a tough skin is good. Best of luck!

Having a thick skin is essential. Keep trying and learning. Writers mature with age.

Isiah, this competition would have been hard even for paid writers. Basically it's "Chopped" for screenwriting - here's a basket of crap, now make a gourmet meal in 20 minutes.

So huge props to you for having the guts to enter, and for getting a script done under these parameters in a short amount of time.

And sometimes we get a little over the top on criticism when the scripts are anonymous so if I did on yours I apologize.

Please feel free to PM me about anything - if you need advice, or a read, or if you have a question. And again, congrats on entering.