![]() ![]() Suspect along the lines of leading us to believe that these reviewers weren't the "experienced pros" we thought they were. Some of us got free review do-overs to correct the dodginess (a nice gesture by the folks at The Black List), but even the do-over reviews were suspect. We all had the same common denominator gripe though: our script review summaries (the non-numerical portions) seemed a little dodgy. Between us all (and there are major contest finalists and winners amongst us), someone should have hit the mark somewhere, but nope. We thought, "maybe we all just suck," but that wasn't it. We got in touch with some of our other writer friends, and we all noticed the same thing: everyone was coming in under the magic number of 8 (except one person, and his script still didn't get any traction on the Black List site), even with multiple reviews. We started to compare notes, and noticed a kind of scoring pattern with our script evaluations. A friend of mine (who got a 6 on her script recently), called me, and the subject of the Black List came up. So after all that money spent, I was A** out, and my script wasn't going anywhere. Regardless, they say that if you don't score an 8 or more, the script won't get any attention. I figured that a 3rd time would be the charm and went for it. Anyways, I plunked down another $50 for a second review (I figured that whomever read my script was high on drugs to rate it that low). I uploaded an action comedy (which has placed in the semi-finals and finals of Scriptalooza and Nicholl) and the results came back. I did a little research, saw a whole lot of good stuff about the Black List on the web, and its creator, Franklin Leonard, and decided to give it a go (hey why not? It sounded legit). Not too long ago, a fellow screenwriter introduced me to The Blacklist upload yer script, pay a lil fee, and wait (and hope) for a good rating to get some access or recognition to the Hollywood Players. This is taken from another site, here: "I'm a screenwriter of course, and I've been writing for a long time. ![]()
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