Bad notes, unskilled notes, and knowing the difference.
You can't avoid getting notes on your screenplay. Knowing which ones to embrace, which to interpret, and which to ignore is its own skill.
You’re going to get notes.
You’re a screenwriter. You can’t avoid it.
It might be a friend, a fellow writer, an agent, or a producer. Perhaps you’ve hired someone specifically for notes.
The world will never run out of notes. As long as you keep asking for notes, you will get them.
And even some after that.
Implementing notes is a skill we must develop.
I have seen far too many (especially early) writers take every note they get, and I’ve seen some refuse any note at all.
The skill, of course, is somewhere in between. We take some notes; we don’t take others.
But how do we know which ones to embrace?
