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Posted: March 17th, 2010 | Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized | No Comments »

“Don’t succumb to the temptation to put off the inevitable outside feedback; it doesn’t get easier. Rather, accept the reactions of your first readers, then go back to work.

“This doesn’t mean you have to change everything that anyone objected to or didn’t understand or didn’t buy into. The feedback has identified a potential problem, but you must determine for yourself whether it truly is a problem that needs to be fixed.”

—David Howard, The Tools of Screenwriting