Had an interesting thought today while looking back at this year in #screenwriting...

The first producer who read a certain script of mine stopped halfway through and called it too confusing to bother finishing.

Then that same draft became a Nicholl Semi-Finalist.

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The first manager to read the script also stopped halfway through, either bored or confused, I can& #39;t remember.

I still don& #39;t have a rep, but then that script went on to land me a paid writing assignment (+10% lol) and a connection to a producer working at the studio level.

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Throughout all this, my feelings about the script have remained pretty much the same: "I wrote it to direct, that& #39;s the plan, and the rest is noise."

So the thought was... Let the industry noise cancel itself out, then ask yourself how you actually feel about your own work.

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Because if your instincts can write it, those same instincts can judge it. The rest of the noise out there is just that... noise.

Feedback comes as a lottery of opinions. Take the good with the bad, rewrite what you want to rewrite, and then go get what you came here for.

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Oh, and apparently some of the noise comes from algorithms now, so... there& #39;s that.

Happy writing.

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