Writing question: How do you know if you’ve written a good script?

I have a few more reader questions for this cycle, which I’ll resume answering tomorrow, but wanted to take a break today to get your feedback on a question that arose the other day:

How do you know if you’ve written a good script or not? It’s a critical question because you do yourself no favors if you submit an inferior script to an agent, manager, or producer, therefore you want to make sure your script is good.

How do you determine that?

Curious to see how GITS readers handle this issue.

UPDATE: Some good responses in comments, I encourage you to take a peek. But allow a shameless plug courtesy of Jeff:

Why, of course, you stop by The GITS Club and have the kind folk over there give it a gander!

A great suggestion! The GITS Club is our script peer review site moderated by Jeff Messerman and Mike Scherer. The link is here. Begun in January, it currently has 279 members. It’s a small, supportive community, and a great place to receive feedback as well as flex your analytical muscles by reading and commenting on other writers’ work. And like everything to do with GITS, it’s free! So one way to see if you’re in the ballpark story-wise, drop by script peer review sites like TGC and see what reactions you get from readers.

Comment Archive