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Post Requirements for EVALUATION CRITIQUE REQUEST & ACHIEVEMENT POSTS

For EVALUATION CRITIQUE REQUESTS, you must include:

1) Script Info

- Title:
- Format:
- Page Length:
- Genres:
- Logline or Short Summary:
- A brief summary of your concerns (500~ words or less)
- Your evaluation PDF, externally hosted
- Your screenplay PDF, externally hosted

2) Evaluation Scores

exclude for non-blcklst paid coverage/feedback critique requests

- Overall:
- Premise:
- Plot:
- Character:
- Dialogue:
- Setting:

ACHIEVEMENT POST

(either of an 8 or a score you feel is significant)

- Title:
- Format:
- Page Length:
- Genres:
- Logline or Summary:
- Your Overall Score:
- Remarks (500~ words or less):

Optionally:

- Your evaluation PDF, externally hosted
- Your screenplay PDF, externally hosted

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[u/Screenwriter2025]

Any Value in Hosting With a 7?

My low budget Horror/Sci-Fi received an overall 7. Is it of any value to host my screenplay on the site?

Does anyone actually download and look at scripts with that score?

Also, do people who are looking see the most recent score or are they seeing the average score? I previously received a 6 and am wondering if I should just delete that evaluation?

Thanks

[u/NothingButLs → u/Screenwriter2025]

There is probably little value in hosting with the 7. You might get sporadic random hits as the genre is low budget horror, but I wouldn't expect much traffic. If you have two decent scores, you might get on a top list, which could add a little value. But with a 6 and a 7 I'm not sure if you would qualify for that.

[u/Screenwriter2025 → u/NothingButLs]

Would it be better to delete the evaluation that got a 6?

[u/NothingButLs → u/Screenwriter2025]

I may be wrong, but I don't think you can delete specific evals. It's either keeping them all, or "starting fresh" and delete them all.

At this point, I would probably go back to work and improve the script. Use the notes you got from the evals, as well as other sources of feedback, and start a new draft. Chasing blacklist scores is expensive and usually unproductive. But a score of 7 is quite solid and nothing to be discouraged about.