Sounds like a dumb question, but I know nothing of the industry as I have simply focused on trying to not sucking at writing words (more on that below).
I took up screenwriting in April (on a whim) and have since complete 4 screenplays and 3 pilots. My first two film scripts were, in my retrospective opinion, ungodly bad (avg. 4.5, 5, and 5.5 on the blacklist website), but my third has four 7's; though I'm not sure how a bunch of 7's compares to the work of actual writers. It did make the website's top-list, but again, how does that list compare to the work of people who are actually rep'd/produced. The character and dialogue is, apparently, very well done, but the plot is meh and I am not 100% sure I should use this to query (if it is even good enough to query without it being a wasting their, and my, time).
As for my pilots, my first was just bad (I trashed it after I took a look with clean eyes), but my second made it onto the BL website's top list (ratings: 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 8; four were paid evaluations). It has numerous pro views and downloads, but I have yet to hear anything back (~1 month). My third is currently waiting on two paid reviews, and I think has the best chance of not sucking. Again though, how does my work compare to real writers. I have read a few scripts online in an attempt to compare their work with mine, but for the life of me I can't tell what makes them good (I do know what constitutes bad, but good is not simply the absence of bad).
Again, I have, literally, zero knowledge of the industry, or what even constitutes a good script (I just know to roughly follow the 3-6-3 sequence structure), and my biggest worry as a newbie is querying on material that is not worth a rep's time, thereby putting him/her off my future work.
So here's my question for you:
"Given your experience and what I have outlined above, what would you recommend I do moving forward?"
Again, sorry for being green-as-grass when it comes to this stuff; I feel like one of those people standing in an abstract art exhibit: clueless.
I took up screenwriting in April (on a whim) and have since complete 4 screenplays and 3 pilots. My first two film scripts were, in my retrospective opinion, ungodly bad (avg. 4.5, 5, and 5.5 on the blacklist website), but my third has four 7's; though I'm not sure how a bunch of 7's compares to the work of actual writers. It did make the website's top-list, but again, how does that list compare to the work of people who are actually rep'd/produced. The character and dialogue is, apparently, very well done, but the plot is meh and I am not 100% sure I should use this to query (if it is even good enough to query without it being a wasting their, and my, time).
As for my pilots, my first was just bad (I trashed it after I took a look with clean eyes), but my second made it onto the BL website's top list (ratings: 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 8; four were paid evaluations). It has numerous pro views and downloads, but I have yet to hear anything back (~1 month). My third is currently waiting on two paid reviews, and I think has the best chance of not sucking. Again though, how does my work compare to real writers. I have read a few scripts online in an attempt to compare their work with mine, but for the life of me I can't tell what makes them good (I do know what constitutes bad, but good is not simply the absence of bad).
Again, I have, literally, zero knowledge of the industry, or what even constitutes a good script (I just know to roughly follow the 3-6-3 sequence structure), and my biggest worry as a newbie is querying on material that is not worth a rep's time, thereby putting him/her off my future work.
So here's my question for you:
"Given your experience and what I have outlined above, what would you recommend I do moving forward?"
Again, sorry for being green-as-grass when it comes to this stuff; I feel like one of those people standing in an abstract art exhibit: clueless.
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