A Checklist to Help Sell Your Screenplay

Posted on July 25, 2008 in Selling Your Script | 1 Comment

Here’s a checklist similar to what many studio readers use when assessing the quality of your screenplay. Does your script pass the test?

…We all scoff at the idea of rules, knowing quite correctly that great art — even great commercial art — often enjoys its success precisely for the reason of breaking the rules. In this business, conventional wisdom is wrong at least as often as it is right. The fact that readers refer to checklists is disheartening, if not downright maddening. To reduce art to the level of formula is a hopeless task, and takes all the fun out of it besides.

But — there is something to the old maxim, ‘You gotta know the rules to break them.’ In that spirit, and for your own amusement, I offer my reader’s checklist here:

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