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Advice from a screenwriter

In Hollywood, there's something called the Weekend Read. It starts on Friday afternoon. This is when agents, managers, producers, showrunners and studio execs get a stack of scripts to read for the weekend.

It could be a dozen. It could be more.

You, the screenwriter, have been working tirelessly on your script, making sure every comma is perfect. You've been doing this for six months, maybe a year, and you have this expectation that the reader is going to give your script the respect that it deserves.

They're going to open up a glass of wine, sit in their favorite chair next to the fireplace, and really sink their teeth into this world that you created.

This guy was supposed to read your script, but instead, he’s reading a thesaurus.

But that's not the reality.