If you have a script posted on SimplyScripts.com and wish to have someone review your script in exchange for reviewing someone else's script:

1. Create a new post in this sub-board with the title of the script and "Review Exchange", e.g., Title - Review Exchange
2. Post the link to your script's discussion thread providing:
     a. Link to the script's discussion thread
     b. Log line
     c. Genre
     d. Page count

Here is a good example of how to post a review exchange
http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=thriller,m=1126436020

If you are responding to a request, please reply to that thread with, "Yes, I will review your work.  My work can be found here: (put in link to work)."

Please put your review in that scripts thread.

Thanks,

Don

Hey, I had not noticed that Don put this up.  Cool.

Andrew (and others):  Note that the whole board is a Reading Exchange, not just this one thread.

Start your own thread on this board, with an appropriate title, if you want to get swap reads with other authors.  Be clear as to the type of help and feedback you are looking for.  Then you can correspond with others specific to your (and their) work and needs on a thread devoted to you own work.

Your posts might not get noticed if you bury them on this thread.  Hopefully, some of the newer members will find this board and get some reads of their own.

And, hopefully, this will jump-start the review process that so many writers seem to be after.

I've given an example using Andrew's request of what I thought the request should look like:

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=goose,m=1126539931,s=0


Don

You may want to also include a little info about the script.  


Phil

Excellent idea.  I've updated the example to include Phil's suggestion.

http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b=goose,m=1126539931,s=0

Don

So can this also be for scripts that once were posted but aren't anymore for varying reasons but you still would like to exchange reviews as it were.

What if we put Genre and\or page number in the thread name as well?  Could make things a bit easier.

That's up to the person who posts it. I do modify them sometimes to add the link and stuff because the authors forget or just don't care.

I have found -- generally speaking -- that the quality of the initial posting here -- on this board -- is actually a fair indication of the quality of review you might expect from the person creating the exchange thread for their script.

And it's kind of intuitive that this correlation would hold true, isn't it?

One should bear this in mind while responding to -- or creating -- these exchange threads.

If we were to want people to read a series we've created, what would we put as the logline? Would it be a summary of the whole series, or would we have to put a summary for each episode?

Sean

I doubt anybody will read an entire series if they hate the first episode so just go with episode 1 first and move from there.

Alrighty, thanks Wesley. I was thinking about making a script exchange for my Infected series and I just didn't know what to do about the logline.

By the way, I read your signature, and your next short sounds fun and interesting. Looking foward to it!

Sean

I guess if you exchanged with another series you could do it with the whole thing. What I would do is just use the logline that made you want to write the series.

For me and my series the reason I wanted to write it was based on the simple phrase "A series about nothing"

So you could do it two ways. Ask if they want to exchange series and/or just exchange an episode for a short or episode for an episode.

Bumping this as a reminder on how to ask for a script review exchange.  

- Don