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Posted by: Don, May 31st, 2017, 4:19pm
A New Kind of Relationship by O'Shea Wright - Drama, Romance - After going through many problems with many guys, a Caucasian woman meets an African American man, and they begin to fall in love.  But, facing different issues from family members, they'll have a hard time being with a person of another race. 83 pages - pdf, format

Writer interested in feedback on this work

Posted by: eldave1, May 31st, 2017, 6:09pm; Reply: 1

Riddled with problems.

The format is non-standard throughout. Not even close - check out some scripts you'll see the difference.


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INT. MARIA'S BATHROOM – LIGHTS ON – NIGHT.


You don't need LIGHTS ON - it is assumed we can see unless you tell us otherwise.


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MARIA has just entered in from a night out.
She is at her bathroom sink, LOOKING into the mirror with tears in her eyes

Okay - she has just entered or she is at the bathroom sink - not both. This needs to be either:

Maria enters, heads towards the sink --- or

Maria's at the seek, gazing in the mirror.

In addition, actions do not needed to be CAPPED - sounds should be.



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MARIA
(In anger and sadness.)
Another one... Another man who can't realize a good woman... Another failed attempt at finding Mr.


You use a ton of parentheticals to describe emotions - let the actors decide this in most cases.

Overall - not ready for primetime - there are some basics missing
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