I enjoy your stories about the biz. I've been writing for years but never rewriting until a friend recently sold a script to Walden Media and convinced me to take another look at my scripts. Eight drafts in to one of them and I still just don't think it is ready. But I don't know for sure. And at this point I'm not quite sure why it isn't ready. When do you know it is time to send it out? Especially when it is going directly to producers as a sample or for market and not an agent for notes?
Thanks,
Jason
Wow, sorry. I never look at the message boards. Actually been thinking of taking them down.
As for your question, for me it's gut thing. I write for me. I don't write for the audience or for the producer. At least initially. Sure I follow the basic rules but for the most part I write for me and I know within a draft or two if I like it or not. Down the road, if a company is willing to fork over some money then I'll write for them. But they'll have to earn it because if I don't agree with their notes I will argue.
If you are eight drafts in, if you like it when you read it, then send that bad boy. At the end of the day they are either going to buy your idea or they won't. You can easily drive yourself mad trying to fine tune. And if they buy it they're gonna toss out most of your fine tuning anyway.
Hope this helps.