Finding Joy in Collaboration & Critiques

Sometimes, someone comes along who suddenly propels you into an inspirational state that you never felt before.

I worked with someone called, Shibu Thomas, who wrote a screenplay and asked me if I would become script consultant and editor. I read the script and edited it for him, but the story was so intriguing and so clever, I was happy to continue to help him work on it.

He then made pitches to producers and received great feedback, he had very good written critiques from professionals in the industry and over the months worked tirelessly to improve the script on what he had been advised, not only that, I thought this guy was super human, because whenever he received a critique, it was like he had been injected with a boost of kryptonite or something, because within no time at all, he had happily made the improvements and I was always amazed at the speed in which he worked, if I suggested something he liked, it was done and included straight away, if he had to do re-writes, I received drafts to edit quicker than you can say, “cut”, I honestly did not know how he did it.

Even the gentleman who wrote the critique was very impressed with how quickly Shibu implemented his recommendations and sent the script back.