How to (Constructively) Receive Script Feedback

I wrote this blog to give writers some encouragement on something I’ve noticed when working with clients who don’t seem to understand the feedback responses from producers after they have submitted their scripts for consideration.

It’s happened quite a few times now, where people have entered their scripts to The Writers’ Room, also to producers outside of Stage 32 and they have come back to me saying they’ve had feedback and that the producer they sent their work to hates the script.

I have then read the feedback for myself and realized that not once has the producer said they hated the work, in fact, there was no hint that the producer hated the work and the feedback was actually very constructive, positive, with great ideas and suggestions to improve the work in all cases.

It’s very difficult for writers when you have worked on something that has most likely taken a year or more to complete with all the blood, sweat, and tears that’s gone into it, you then send off your baby out into the world, and you wait expectantly for a producer to write back to you and tell you that your script is the best thing they’ve ever read and they want to option…