I've fallen a little behind in my goal to read 30 Scripts in 30 Days, but today's plan is to catch up since I'm caught up on my freelance work and am stuck playing the waiting game on a job opportunity I'm completely stoked about.

(brief pause while I check to make sure my cell phone's on. It is.)

I got behind after getting stuck on a script analysis. There was plenty of room for constructive critique, but yet I found myself having a hard time articulating what would be most helpful to focus the writer on, since there were so many areas that needed more attention than could be addressed in my allotted pages for critique. Ultimately, I was able to finish and send what I'm confident were constructive, helpful notes.

Sometimes we, as writers and readers, are in the position to know something's not working, but not be able to articulate exactly what it is or what we need to do to fix it. Here's a link to a great post at SlashFilm.com. It's a re-post of a letter written by David Mamet a few years back to the writing staff of The Unit. Check it out here.

(pause to check battery levels on the iPhone. Yep. Still running.)

Hope to have some good news to post soon.

Until then...happy reading!