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Posted by: Don, September 10th, 2006, 7:44am
My Boss's Son by Jonathan Morales - Short - Carlos is a drug dealer, who deals to young high school kids. The local department is on to him and they want to take him down. Manny, 23 must decide to help out a life long friend or incriminat him, using his boss's son. 15 pages - doc, format 8)
Posted by: twaas, September 10th, 2006, 11:46pm; Reply: 1
You had lots of grammar errors in this. And plenty of spelling ones too.

The format was not great either... a few things:
CAPITALIZE your names
Use things like CUT TO: .... don't just say Int. A house
Capitalize your loglines

But as for the story....I liked it. It was nice and short. I still think it needs some work but you got something here. Oh, and the last scene, the flashback scene, IN MY OPINION should be a little longer.
Posted by: eljefedetonto, September 12th, 2006, 12:02am; Reply: 2
I agree, there are formatting errors. But as a quick side note, CUT TO: and other cutting transitions are usually best left out. So in order to make your scene headers stand out, capitalize them. Same with your transitions that you do use. And same goes for characters' names in dialogue headings. All this usually helps the reading flow better. Sorry I couldn't add more, I'm in a pinch.
Posted by: Shogun, October 2nd, 2006, 3:04am; Reply: 3
Thanks guys. I recently wrote a new script and took your advice to heart and used them.

The writer Jonathan Morales
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