Phew

I’ve just spent most of the day correcting a script for a friend of mine. It’s not that there were any horrendous mistakes or anything, and the story's good, but next time I see him I’m going to hit him upside the head with a thesaurus.

 

Just because a word has a similar meaning to another word doesn’t mean it’s the same thing in context.

There’s nothing wrong with simple words. Complex words don’t make things sound better if they're used wrong. It just makes things confusing.

Show, don’t tell. This is not prose, if a character’s feeling something you have explain how the audience will know that, not just say they feel it. Script does not equal book.

 

 

I also feel worried about correcting their use of commas when I'm not a hundred percent sure on it myself but it I think I caught the worst mistakes.

 

Thank goodness I’m not correcting spelling. That’d be a disaster.