...if the reader has a different view on what your script is/should be?
I wrote a script that I handed to my rep who sent it out for coverage. The reader tore that first draft apart, so I did a fairly major overhaul of it. I just got the coverage back for this new draft, reviewed by the same reader.
In a nutshell, he liked this draft much better. He had few issues overall= some of the supporting characters were too flat (possibly true) and he thought there was a flaw in logic re: a murder investigation (there isn't, but he thinks there is because he doesn't know the law as much as he thinks he does). Still, I'm tweaking that element too to clarify it for him.
That said, I wrote a pulpy melodrama that he seems to want to make into a more realistic drama. It may seem like a trifling difference, but it would change the tone of the entire script, and not, IMO, for the better.
So, my question is, how far have writers gone to please a reader? At what point do you chalk it up to just a difference of opinion versus a legit note that you should address? And do you address a difference-of-opinion note to make the reader happy, writer's intentions be damned?
Funny thing is, I've received much more negative coverage for other scripts I've written that still received a CONSIDER. Seems like this reader expects it to be exactly the way he thinks it should be before he'll raise it above a PASS.
I wrote a script that I handed to my rep who sent it out for coverage. The reader tore that first draft apart, so I did a fairly major overhaul of it. I just got the coverage back for this new draft, reviewed by the same reader.
In a nutshell, he liked this draft much better. He had few issues overall= some of the supporting characters were too flat (possibly true) and he thought there was a flaw in logic re: a murder investigation (there isn't, but he thinks there is because he doesn't know the law as much as he thinks he does). Still, I'm tweaking that element too to clarify it for him.
That said, I wrote a pulpy melodrama that he seems to want to make into a more realistic drama. It may seem like a trifling difference, but it would change the tone of the entire script, and not, IMO, for the better.
So, my question is, how far have writers gone to please a reader? At what point do you chalk it up to just a difference of opinion versus a legit note that you should address? And do you address a difference-of-opinion note to make the reader happy, writer's intentions be damned?
Funny thing is, I've received much more negative coverage for other scripts I've written that still received a CONSIDER. Seems like this reader expects it to be exactly the way he thinks it should be before he'll raise it above a PASS.
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